They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another…there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
does anyone have a favorite classic book collection? I want to invest in some classics but I want them to be from the same publisher so they look cohesive
I was thinking either penguin classics or signet classics
Since Dracula Daily is on pause for a few weeks, now is a good time to promo an app I love. Serial Reader! If you’ve been enjoying reading a classic novel in serialized form, this may be of interest.
Serial Reader is a free app that lets you read books in the public domain, portioned out in chunks that take about 15 minutes to read on average. You get one chunk released to you every day. Their reasoning is that this serialization makes reading classics more exciting - and I think we’ve seen solid evidence of that with the success of Dracula Daily.
You add what book(s) you want to read - there’s tons of categories to browse, or you can search if you have something specific in mind.
I’m reading Pride and Prejudice, and this screen shows my progress so far.
And here’s where I go to see all my issues! Unread issues have an estimated reading time next to them.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with this! There’s also the potential for buddy reads. As far as I know, there’s no official in-app support for that, but all you’d need to do is start your novel on the same day as your friend.
As far as accessibility features go, the font selection includes dyslexic-friendly fonts, and the font size gets pretty darn big (I can’t speak on whether it gets big enough to be considered an accessibility feature, but I would guess so.) It also has different color pallete options.
The paid version has more features, such as the ability to hilight and make notes, but the free version is very usable, and add-free!
I hope you check it out and enjoy more classic lit!
Her cruelty. The beach. The midnight swim. Her lost sandal, that night in the doorway of the dance hall, Cinderella’s shoe. All gone. All lost. It is no matter. Tired, tired and drunk. No matter.
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
“To conclude, I want to say to all men of good faith, to the workers, and to the poets, that the entire future was expressed by Rimbaud in that one sentence: only with burning patience shall we conquer the splendid city that will give light, justice, and dignity to all men.
why not live completely nocturnal? get up when the sun starts to set and go to bed when she rises. why not sit in candlelight when the stars are up, reading and watching movies and listening to music and doing all the things you would normally do but at nighttime? shower, eat, drink, all while the moon watches you fondly. for the night is more beautiful than the day anyways. in quarantine, who is there to judge you, so why not transfer your life to the beauty of the night?
Reading classic literature is so fun because they say the most beautiful and insightful things about life and humanness that you’ll think about for the rest of your life, and then they immediate pull out the word “methinks”
