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aeleis

Xennial/English major undergrad; creative writing focus but plenty of lit classes /The old, the new, the in-between: I read it all

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British & Irish Classic Literature
My Taste
Alamut (Alamut, #1)
Ill Wind (Weather Warden, #1)
The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
The Incandescent
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The SpellshopLes MisérablesBuried Deep and Other Stories

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  • Annotated Hamlet??

    I have read several of Shakespeare’s plays, and got to know the cadence and vocabulary fairly well. But I am struggling to understand Hamlet. I CRAVE meaning to these stanzas, but I can’t seem to parse it out on my own. Does anyone have an annotated version they recommend? I don’t usually love annotated versions, but I’m willing to try anything at this point (other than googling every line 🤣).

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  • Women’s Sexuality

    Hello all,

    I hope you all have been well!

    Lately I have been trying to learn a lot more about women’s sexuality. In my household this was a topic that was often looked down upon so everything I have learned has been through books unfortunately. But I find myself wanting to know more, since I’m 26 and sometimes I feel like I don’t know much about it, which makes me feel a bit embarrassed 😅 so I come asking for help in finding books about this topic!

    So if anyone has good book recs about women’s sexuality/ desires/ sex journey/ women that are discovering their sexuality through dating? I have tried looking in quests/lists but I haven’t found much there. I appreciate any input tbh 💗

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  • Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
    New Cover, New Book?

    As we've all seen there are new covers for the Six of Crows duology for the 10 year anniversary. I personally don't like them (if you do, not judging)

    Go on TikTok today to find people discussing that with these new covers, the books interior has gone through a re-edit and they've removed any references to the ages of the Crows, erasing the fact they're teenagers.

    I'm sorry, what!?

    This is insane to me and seriously Dystopian. The fact they're teenagers is pivotal to the story and why they act the way they do. Aging them up would make 0 sense.

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  • 3 books for the questmaker's consideration

    1. Everybody Wants To Rule the World Except Me, Django Wexler
    2. Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan
    3. Dreadful, Caitlin Rozakis

    (with thanks for your time)

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    I honestly love the way Caz and Kiela divide the garden up to mimic a library. I could have used 200% more of this level of creative whimsy up to this point, and at least 50% less of Kiela's anxious thoughts (however justified that anxiety may be) but we move.

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    Everything I’ve seen in passing about this book… and nobodies ever mentioned that she’s Blue???

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