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Graduate student specializing in 18th century British literature with an emphasis on the novel. Lover of John Milton, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte. (Yes, I know none of them published in the 18th century.)

Occasional writer of lengthy fictions, seven-time NaNoWriMo participant and former Office of Letters and Light intern.

Reader of much young adult and/or fantasy lit. Lifetime lover of Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, recently fanatic about Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy, blaming it all on Harry Potter.

Wanderluster. Left my heart in London, reclaim it bit by bit through tea and Doctor Who and Sherlock and Downton Abbey.

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gunnarolla:

This is brilliant

1. I wish my library did this.

2. I spent like ten minutes being sad that I did not know and therefore could not read the book whose description contains “Bears” and then I realized it’s The Golden Compass duh self.
(Source: alethiosaur, via fuckyeahbookshelves)

#books #library #The Golden Compass #Philip Pullman
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"It’s an abdication of narrative responsibility, in my view. The storyteller, in film or novel, should take charge of the story and not feel shifty about it. Put the camera in the place from which it can see the action most clearly. Make a decision about where that place is. Put it on something steady to stop that incessant jiggling about. Say what happened, and let the reader know when it happened and what caused it and what the consequences were, and tell me where the characters were and who else was present – and while you’re at it, I’d like to know what they looked like and whether it was raining."

Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense | Books | The Guardian (via robotnic)

Present-tense on its own doesn’t bother me so much…but first-person present-tense is just anathema to me. It tastes wrong in my head and I am not in favor of it.
(via damelola)

#Philip Pullman #writing
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"I once heard an American academic spend a whole lecture trying to show that Jane Eyre was a Cinderella story. She failed, because it isn’t: Jane Eyre is a Beauty and the Beast story, in which the physically powerful, sexually potent, threateningly mature adult male, Mr Rochester, is gradually subdued and tamed (not to say shamed and maimed) by the small, weak, delicate, but implacable Jane, who does it all by herself."

Philip Pullman

#Jane Eyre #Beauty and the Beast #Philip Pullman