Duchess of Malfi - John Webster, 1614
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Duchess of Malfi - John Webster, 1614
Duchess of Malfi - John Webster, 1614
updated 6 years ago
Duchess of Malfi - John Webster, 1614
The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
The Egoist, George Meredith
Short Stories of Charles Dickens
Short Stories and Poetry of Oscar Wilde
My Last Duchess, Robert Browning
In a time of Distance, Alexander McCall Smith
Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
The Calvary Maiden, Nadezhda Durova
The Murder Trials, Cicero
The Forest Song, Lesya Ukrainka
Red Queen Series, Victoria Aveyard
" 'I am not afraid of you,' he said, smilingly."
and then, on the very next page:
"Darcy smiled and said,"
Books Mentioned:
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Antidote, Shelley Sackier
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Agatha Christie
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Dangerous, Minerva Spencer
Moving Picture, Terry Pratchett
The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon
Read:
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Emile or On Education, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope
Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
War on Peace, Ronan Farrow
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Guide, R.K. Narayan
Circe, Madeline Miller
Cecil or Adventures of a Coxcombe, Catherine Gore
Cecil, or The Adventures of a Coxcombe by Catherine Gore 1845
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 1853
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1859
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Beowulf
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
Some More News:
Trump isn't Hitler: youtube.com/watch?v=CcklYVR5I-I
Trumpism is just a Synonym for Fascism: youtube.com/watch?v=fIN8oxnw__I
If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop supporting Donald Trump: youtube.com/watch?v=GM1w8_dOcR8
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
Island, Aldous Huxley
Steve Partridge: youtube.com/user/stevenpartridge85
Books Mentioned:
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan
The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth
Evolutionary Psychology: Neuroscience Perspectives Concerning Human Behavior and Experience, William Ray
Mindfulness and Compassion: Embracing Life with Loving-kindness, The Happy Buddha
Judgement of Paris: California Vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine, George M. Taber
Spindle, EK Johnston
The Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
My Not So Perfect Life, Sophie Kinsella
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman, Ian Kerner
Karyotype, Kim Trainor
Duchess of Malfi: youtu.be/LaadSq6Jp_Q
Marquis de Sade Article: independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/we-translated-the-marquis-de-sades-most-obscene-work-heres-how-a7393066.html
I tag:
Yogi with a Book: youtube.com/channel/UCx8XTaCPzyye-svU6VM_A9g
Bean the Bookologist: youtube.com/channel/UCkg6G4L8q0wk5080sSwQORA
BookingForewardToIt: youtube.com/channel/UCBmSjGvRHf_CCV_9-tdIc-A
Bookishly Nerdy: youtube.com/channel/UCqwCnjKtJ--mcE-eXv2ilpQ
On the Way to the Wedding, Julia Quinn
Radiance, Grace Draven
Eidolon, Grace Draven
Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden
Margaret The First, Danielle Dutton
Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro
Malcolm Gladwell: newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/11/six-degrees-of-lois-weisberg
Karyotype, Kim Trainor
Books:
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Match of the Century, Cathy Maxwell
Kurt Vonnegut
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Candide, Voltaire
I tag BookingForewardToIt: youtube.com/channel/UCBmSjGvRHf_CCV_9-tdIc-A
This video is an exploration of figuring out if the subject or the author is what I disliked about this book.
1. Favorite or best female friendship
2. Favorite literary sisters
3. Favorite mother/daughter relationship
4. Pick your literary Galentine
5. A book you would give to all your Galentines
I Tag:
Bibliofilth: youtube.com/channel/UCpMErm_cAwX27rclIm1srYA
Between Lines and Life: youtube.com/user/Twitterinchen
TurningPages52: youtube.com/channel/UCBNpYWtKoWkBSpTFPVCW3Pg
Josh from Literary Gladiators tag video: youtube.com/watch?v=ukohAMMw76Q&t=1s
Catalyst Reads: youtube.com/channel/UCvIcCu4wanD4XJw0yjUeEcw
Between Lines and Life: youtube.com/user/Twitterinchen
Brian's Bookshelves: youtube.com/user/Thespian32
Triumphs of History and Fantasy: youtube.com/channel/UCKnD4whwAkRmcRpQAu1itBg
Bibliofilth: youtube.com/channel/UCpMErm_cAwX27rclIm1srYA
Plots and Points: youtube.com/channel/UC8vu_EZihbgUv___qqlDQ8Q
TurningPages52: youtube.com/channel/UCBNpYWtKoWkBSpTFPVCW3Pg
Tagged by James at Plots and Points: youtube.com/channel/UC8vu_EZihbgUv___qqlDQ8Q
1- Name your ship!- pick a book title that you want as the name of your fearsome vessel!
2- Pick your flag!- Choose a creature/monster to put on your flag
3- The first mate- Choose a character to be your second in command
4- The Navigator- Choose a character to help guide your ship across the ocean
5- The Raiding Crew- Choose TWO characters to board enemy ships and do your fighting for you
6- The Doctor- A pirate's life is full of danger, choose a character to be your ship's doctor
7- The Lookout- Pick a character you trust to watch for danger and spot your foes on the horizon
8- The Entertainment- Pick a character to entertain your mates on the long cold sea nights
9- The Poop-Deck Swabber- Choose a character you want to force to scrub the poop-deck!
10- Tag your booktube mates and challenge them to launch their own pirate adventure!
I tag:
Triumphs of History and Fantasy: youtube.com/channel/UCKnD4whwAkRmcRpQAu1itBg
Dane Reads: youtube.com/user/danecobain
MCS-Books: youtube.com/channel/UCLy809DbEyHPuxItlEYU-RA
Miriam: youtube.com/channel/UCD_RTVv-xKl1hC3NWTWRAUg
1. Thales is considered the first known philosopher. Which text introduced you to philosophy or which text would you like to read to get you into philosophy?
2. Karl Marx is a political philosopher, turning the world upside down with the Communist Manifesto. Which political event or event in history would you like to read more about in fiction?
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau highly influenced The Enlightenment, a period which introduced critical thinking to the common people. Which book or author forced you to think more critically?
4. Voltaire once said: " I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" Which is a popular book everyone seems to love but you didn't?
5. Hannah Arendt – Doomed controversial even by her friends, Hannah Arendt did not shy away from telling what she thought was true. Name a book that will leave readers uncomfortable, but tells an important story.
6. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” A wonderful quote from Nietzsche out of "Thus spoke Zarathustra" Which book do you go back to for its beautiful writing?
7. Jean-Paul Sartre raised the question "What is literature?" in one of his books? What is good literature for you?
8. Albert Camus – Which book did you have to keep pushing through because you really wanted to understand it’s meaning?
9. Which are the three philosophers you would love to sit down and have a chat with?
I tag:
LauraPora - youtube.com/channel/UCF9xgK3AzKvLAkhzZoTCdAQ/featured
The Enchanted Library - youtube.com/channel/UCL-XkB0RSkD5p_U2PtpiJZQ
VictoriaReadsThings - youtube.com/channel/UCLHqr0_0pC8GEAmUxbzNLUw
Some Books Mentioned:
A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Older, Faster, Stronger: What Women Runners Can Teach Us All about Living Younger, Longer - Margaret Webb
Poems for All the Annettes - Al Purdy
Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernières
The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Dombey & Son - Charles Dickens
I tag:
The Enchanted Library - youtube.com/channel/UCL-XkB0RSkD5p_U2PtpiJZQ
VictoriaReadsThings - youtube.com/channel/UCLHqr0_0pC8GEAmUxbzNLUw
Laura Pora: youtube.com/watch?v=Sb93bBZvqwc&t
I tag:
Luukashist Books: youtube.com/channel/UCUboZP1VriVO2aYVBexY5rw
Pages and Prose: youtube.com/channel/UCbHgEV6iqMIt_FeRT36zGbQ
Between Lines and Life: youtube.com/user/Twitterinchen
The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser, 1590
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood, 2005
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius, 180
Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope, 1865
Wives & Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866
Karyotype - Kim Trainor, 2015
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov, 1903
The Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb, 1995
A Bedding Proposal - Tracey Anne Warren
Information Literacy Instruction: Theory & Practice - Grassian & Kaplowitz
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford - youtu.be/rT0c7CVDhhE
Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook - Greenburg, Carpendale, Marquardt, Buxton
Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond - Rosenfeld, Morville, Arango
The Duke in my Bed - Amelia Grey
The Legion of Flame - Anthony Ryan
Climb the Stacks: youtube.com/watch?v=2SuaiTtiEkQ
Check out some of his other poems: http://puritan-magazine.com/three-poems-26