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tom riddle ffs supremacy>>>
most of them are literally so beautiful and elegant at the same time. and, the writers write so beautifully you wouldn't have thought it was a fanfiction, it's almost like a classic book written by well known writers like jane austen.
if anyone would like to recommend more tom riddle ffs (please do), you can comment it on the comment section!
7/28/22
Attention please
Studyblrs and academics: If you’re keeping up with Turkish news or have Turkish mutuals posting about some issues, you may have seen the hashtag #AşağıBakmayacağız (we won’t look down) trending.
Right now, many students and protesters are being subjected to police brutality and injustice due to the recent events happening in one of Turkey’s most prestigious colleges, Boğazici University.
The only thing they want to is the decision to vote for their own warden. They don’t want any political influence in their university. We, as international students around the globe should also agree on this because academic buildings should be a free place where you can think about what you want. Freedom.
I’ve seen images and been told that students feel uncomfortable because on the roofs of buildings around the university, there has been snipers. They feel threatened.
This isn’t how you should treat your youth. This isn’t how you should treat anyone. They just ask for simple democracy rights. Calling them out for ‘terrorists’ or people who want to ‘ruin’ the country. It’s so dangerous to call your own future, own youth words like that.
It’s time to reblog this important post about what is going on in Turkey. I’ve been posting about it many, many times but I don’t get enough attention of both communities I’m in and I really want you all to share it and pay attention for our fellow Turkish students.
Read more: https://asagibakmayacagiz.carrd.co/
„Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
(Movie Quote)
TV Shows I Would've Watch
So this is inspired from a lot of posts I saw on Tumblr or Pinterest and thats the post. Feel free to add any other idea or reblog.
- Sitcom about Tom Sawyer and Hucky Finn. Hear me out. The books kind of sound like Sitcom and they are great. I think this can be awsome. They deserve at the very the very least a TV show or a movie.
- Sitcom (yes, another one) about all of Shakespeare's characters in modern days as college students that share dorms. Lady Macbeth is a total bitch and Juliet is obsessed with romantic movies and etc.
The first one is mine but the second isn't. I only added the things about Lady Macbeth and Juliet.
I jest love this gif
Rip Anna Karenina, you would have loved
One of the most beautiful classic literature editions 🧡💛💚💙💜
If you are interested in beautiful editions of classic Literature, check out the Penguin Drop Caps series! They have a book in every color of the rainbow for every letter of the Alphabet.
Movies to watch if you love Pride and Prejudice
1.Bright Star (2009)
This one is a beautiful, quiet and poetic movie about the love affair between Poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
2. Becoming Jane (2007)
This is an autobiographical movie about Jane Austen and her romantic relationship with Tom Lefroy. It is not entirely based on facts, since we know so little about some aspects of Austens private life.
3. A room with a view (1985)
This movie is a lovely and incredibly acted adaption of E.M. Forster's novel. It stars a young Daniel Day-Lewis and Helena Bonham Carter.
4. Finding Neverland (2004)
This film has to be one of my all time favourites: it is about J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspires him to create Peter Pan. It is a heart-wrenching, magical tale of love, fiendships and the wonders of the world.
I looove this analysis
Mansfield Park is a fairy tale, but then all novels are, in a sense, fairy tales. At first sight Jane Austen’s manner and matter may seem to be old-fashioned, stilted, unreal. But this is a delusion to which the bad reader succumbs. The good reader is aware that the quest for real life, real people, and so forth is a meaningless process when speaking of books. In a book, the reality of a person, or object, or a circumstance depends exclusively on the world of that particular book. An original author always invents an original world, and if a character or an action fits into the pattern of that world, then we experience the pleasurable shock of artistic truth, no matter how unlikely the person or thing may seem if transferred into what book reviewers, poor hacks, call “real life.” There is no such thing as real life for an author of genius: he must create it himself and then create the consequences. The charm of Mansfield Park can be fully enjoyed only when we adopt its conventions, its rules, its enchanting make-believe. Mansfield Park never existed, and its people never lived.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
Book recommendations based on your favourite authors
1. Oscar Wilde
Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose
If you love Oscar Wilde i would recommend St. Aubyn's amazing novels. They are full of wit, cunning irony, upper - class critisicm and dry humor.
2. William Shakespeare
Margaret Atwood - Hagseed
Part of the "Hogarth Shakespeare Series" this is a brillant retelling of Shakespeares play the tempest.
3. Lewis Carroll
Michael Ende - Momo
Similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Ende takes us on a young girl's magical journey in which she has to bring back the "stolen time".
4. Stephen King
David Mitchell - Slade House
Stephen King himself recommended this suspensful novel about an abnormal house: “Hard to imagine a more finely wrought and chilling tale of the supernatural. One of the rare great ones.”
5. Suzanne Collins
Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
This book has a very similar storyline to Collins great Hunger Games Saga: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing.
6. Jane Austen
Goethe - Elective Affinities
A love story just as sharming and complicated as Jane Austen's beloved works: Eduard and his wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet but idle life in their estate, when their piece is fastly thrown into chaos as he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them: a story of forbidden love begins to grow as they both form attraction to their guests.
Actors and their favourite books
Tom Hiddleston - Any human heart
Hiddleston mentioned in a tweet, that this was one of his favourite novels.
Colin Firth - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
"I don't think I've ever read such descriptions of what it would be like to lose your grip. He has a vision that makes you less sure of your surroundings—and I find that stimulating."
Natalie Portman - Cloud Atlas
"This was the present I gave everyone I knew for three years. It's six different stories told in different time periods and genres: One is historical fiction, another is a '70s thriller mystery, the sixth is a post¬apocalyptic story"
Daniel Radcliffe - The Master and Margarita
"It's now my favorite novel—it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart."
Timothee Chalamet - And then the End will come
Chalamet mentioned in an interview, that he really loved this book
Morgan Freeman - The Poisonwood Bible
“Some of the best writers are women writers – Barbara Kingsolver, Joyce Carol Oates. They just don’t get enough play.”
Margot Robbie - The five poeple you meet in heaven
I love that book. It felt very different, moving and heartfelt. It made me think. It’s a quick read, it’s a good one to recommend over the holidays.”
Cate Blanchett - The true history of the Kelly Gang
"Carey is one of my favorite writers. In Kelly Gang, the narrative voice is so unique. We Australians all know about Ned Kelly, but what Carey does is get inside his character's mind in such an illuminating and heartrending way. Aand there's not a trace of sentimentality in it. I so admire that as an actor, because I realize how difficult it is to do."
Famous writers and the books they can't live without
All these answers are taken from BBC's Podcast "Desert Island Discs", where famous artists share the one book they would take with them to a deserted island.
Neil Gaiman - The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Margaret Atwood - Stories from 1001 Arabian Nights
Maggie O'Farrell - Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Colm Toibin - The portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Stephen Fry - Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot
Tennessee Williams - Poetry by Hart Crane
Roald Dahl - The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner
Helen Fielding - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Patricia Highsmith - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Zadie Smith - Remembrence of Things past by Marcel Proust
10 Classic Book Recommendations
I’ve read a lot of non-English classics over the last couple of years (all translated into English because I am not bilingual) and I thought it’d be fun to share some of my favourites!
This post contains affiliate links and they're marked with an asterisk (*) - you obviously don't need to use them.
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The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (1002)
Originally written in Middle Early Japanese (translated by Meredith McKinney)
A collection of essays, anecdotes, poems, observations and musings from Sei Shōnagon’s time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi in Heian Japan
This is one of my favourite classics because found myself relating to a woman who lived over 1,000 years ago and it was wonderful. Some things have obviously changed – we’re from different times and places – but this book reminded me of how similar we are to the people that came before us.
Bookshop.org UK*
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873)
Originally written in French (translated by William Butcher)
An adventure novel
There’s something wonderfully superficial about this book. By this, I mean that the book doesn’t look at anything in depth because Fogg is in a race against the clock and has no time to dwell upon things.
Project Gutenberg (tr. G. M. Towle) | Bookshop.org UK*
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō (1702)
Originally written in Early Modern Japanese (translated by Yuasa Nobuyuki)
A travelogue interwoven with poetry
The opening lines are stunning and reading this book made me feel free in a time when everyone was restricted.
Bookshop.org UK*
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1862)
Originally written in Russian (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
Semi-autobiographical philosophical fiction
Bleak and depressing and so, so interesting. Dostoevsky gives us a real insight into what life was like in exile in Siberia.
This isn’t the translation I read but, apparently, this one is much better and I intend to pick it up myself very soon.
Bookshop.org UK*
The Odyssey by Homer (c. 8th century BCE)
Originally written in Homeric Greek/Ancient Greek (translated by Emily Wilson)
Epic poem
It follows Odysseus, king of Ithaca and Greek hero, and his journey home after the Trojan War.
I have read many a translation of the Odyssey over the years and I love (almost) all iterations of it but Emily Wilson’s translation is beautiful.
Bookshop.org UK*
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320)
Originally written in Italian (translated by C. H. Sisson)
Poetry and religious philosophy
Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise with Virgil and Beatrice as his guides. Inferno will always be my favourite section of the poem but I really love Paradisio too.
Bookshop.org UK*
Poetic Edda (c.985)
Originally written in Old Norse (translated by Carolyne Larrington)
A collection of anonymous Old Norse narrative poems that tell mythological and historical stories.
This is the only translation I’ve read because I wanted something relatively accessible for my first foray into the Poetic Edda but I’ve also heard good things about the Hollander translation.
Bookshop.org UK*
Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 AD)
Originally written in Latin (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
A narrative poem that chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar. It includes various myths, such as Diana and Actaeon, Arachne, and Orpheus and Eurydice.
Although I’ve recommended the Humphries translation, you could pick up any verse translation and still enjoy it. I personally love Arthur Golding’s translation* from 1567 because it was the first direct translation from Latin to English and it’s a reflection of the poetry of its time.
Bookshop.org UK*
The Outsider by Albert Camus (1942)
Originally written in French (translated by Sandra Smith)
Also published as The Stranger in English
A philosophical novel
Camus wrote the best absurdist novels and this one is fantastic. I can’t really describe it but it had a great impact on 18-year-old me and it was my introduction to absurdism and existentialism (but don't tell Camus I described his novel as existentialist).
Bookshop.org UK*
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921)
Originally written in Russian (translated by Bela Shayevich)
Dystopian novel – inspired Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984
The book depicts a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. Everyone is a number and the city’s buildings are constructed almost entirely of glass. It’s such an unnerving book.
Bookshop.org UK*
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If you pick up any of these books based on this post, please let me know what you think!
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Hats off to whoever had to decipher Beethoven's Handwriting
That is wild😂
Just for reference...this is what it should look like:
One of Mozart's scores
"It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially."
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
I just started my instagram Feed about literary and cultural themes. Would be very glad, if some of you would be interested in checking it out. It would be so helpful to me, since it would be my dream to be an independent journalist one day. It is in german though but i think with google translate there will be no problems. I post similar stuff to the things i post on Tumblr.
@illiskulturblog is my name. Thank you!!!
I've seen my own heart darken
I've seen my own sun darkened
Classic Book Challenge
Since I finally finished all the books I was reading, I decided to take on this challenge! I marked the books I have already read with a black symbol, and the books I own and plan to read soon with a blue symbol.
Here's the blank version if you want to take on this challenge yourself!
i just finished reading Jane Eyre !!
i really really loved it; it’s such a charming little tale with words that describe emotions, love and scenery so well. What makes it even better is that my copy was thrifted; it’s an older edition and it’s annotated-something I find really charming in thrifted books. I love love loveddd reading it :3 !!
