paigehf

21 | 🏳️‍🌈 | she/her | 🇺🇲 | INFJ-T English student afflicted by an intense love for books, music, and dogs ✨️

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving. In this edition writer and critic A.S. Byatt provides full explanatory notes and an introduction relating Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life and times. Edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. BYATT

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helenoneverything

Favorite Pagebound Feature?

What are some of your favorite PB features? Can be well known ones, ones you think more people should check out, etc!

Personally, I love the daily emojis, which feels so silly. But I get excited to see what the new emoji is each day and what books and lists go along with it! I feel like I’ve found books and lists that I wouldn’t have found any other way!

Much love and happy reading!

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our minds and others

by pachinko

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“We have no clear definition of consciousness—even though it must be the most important element of our own experience on the planet.

Why do we fear so much in the other this thing we so little understand in ourselves?”

books that explore and grapple with the nature of human and non-human consciousness (animal, machine, or otherwise alien).

mostly science non-fiction, speculative fiction and literary fiction.

recs very much welcome :)

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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Chlorophyll_a

How do you choose your next read?

I have so many books I saved in my TBR and Interested category but I have no idea where to start and what to read next once one of the books is finished.

I would appreciate any suggestions and some advise how do you use Plan future of the app, I think it would be helpful to know what’s on my list next.

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Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

Mira Grant

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The Odyssey

I'm at the movies today and saw a preview for the Christopher Nolan adaptation of The Odyssey coming out in July, which reminded me of its existence lol. But it got me thinking that it would be cool to read the source text first because I would love to be able to engage in conversations about how the film will compare.

So my question is, for those who have read The Odyssey, what edition/translation did you use? Would you recommend it or not? Why? If you do have a recommendation for a certain copy, I would love for you to tell me why just so I can compare with other options. Thank you for any help in advance 🤗

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The Odyssey

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Thoughts from 81% (page 467)

"'We should break all these mistaken ties that were made in blindness – and determine to marry each other.' 'I would rather die than fall into that temptation,' said Maggie, with deep, slow distinctness [....]"

STEPHEN YOU FUCKING THOUGHT BRO