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John William Polidori, author of the Vampyre, first started in a Lake Geneva House the same night as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is the uncle of which Victorian author?
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Which Victorian author wrote an adventure novel about a reporter finding dinosaurs?
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Which Victorian author did Louisa May Alcott write " . . . was very friendly. Being a literary youth he gave me advice, as if he had been eighty, and I a girl."
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Celebrated my Charlotte Lucas birthday 💃🏻
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So excited to participate in this!!
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Such a fantastic and interesting video!
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My chronic pain has kept me from filming in the last weeks but I wanted to give some reading updates and ask you all for what you have been enjoying.
The last book I read was Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, I love digging into classics that are completely fixed in the culture but barely read and this one did not disappoint. I especially apperciated the layers of our protagionist Joanna and that it also touched a Black family moving into an all white community.
Another standout was Sing If You Cannot Dance by Alexia Casale, I picked this up after hearing Olivia-Savannah from Olivia's Castrophe speak about it. It follows Ven, who collapsed in a dance performance, and has now spent the last 18 months reconfiguring what her life looks like with a disability. Casale makes a point of not labelling her illness (a choice I'm still mulling over) but she often dislocates body parts through hypermobility and this has wide reaching issues from balance, pain, kidney function and so on. It's never just one thing. I apperciate the messiness of Ven, she is not the typical heroine and she's definitely not a saint. The book also deals with a variety of other topics like alcoholism, domestic violence and navigating relationships.
What are some of the books you've been reading? Hating or loving?
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I have talked a lot about health and disability over the years. How greatly it has affected my life. One of the biggest things, I have always been embarassed by, is that I flunked out of my final semester of college. This crushed me. I watched my class walk the stage, not knowing if I ever would.
I had defined myself for so long as a hard worker. A good student. I had always worked and taken a full course load. I was hospitialized three times in between my third and fourth year but I thought surely I could do it. When in November of that year, I collapsed down the stairs at work I knew I needed to focus everything on graduating. But it was no use, I could barely move and though I aced my exams I had no stamina to complete my praticum or write my lengthy papers.
I spent the next years learning to reconfigure my life. I had been dealing with declining health for some time but I had never been told that young people got chronically ill. That it wasn't just something I could push through. Some doctors were cruel, one, though, was kind and explained that I would never recover, I'd live the rest of my life with debilitating fatigue and pain. It was in this period, I turned to poetry and wrote and processed the pain of grieving the life I imagined and accepting the life I had.
Years later, I wrote a letter to my college, explaining what I now knew about my health and asked for them to reconsider me as a student. I was three classes and 50 hours (of my praticum) short of my degree. With gracious support of my old professors and faculty, I was readmitted and took one class a semester until on May 4th, after nine years, I walked the stage and was hooded with a Bachelor in Counselling.
With my health, it is unlikely I will ever work in my field, nonetheless, training as a counsellor has profoundly shaped who I am, my values and my perspective of the world and on books. I know it is one of the greatest honours I will ever hold.
Thank you to so many of you who have been on this journey with me and have offered encouraging words along the way. I am so grateful for your support.
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Just feel so encouraged and happy watching this! I read from the library almost every day. 📚
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Okay, I'm obessed. Which one is prettier?
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“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
–C. S. Lewis
Hi! I'm Kier, I like books.
I venture into various genres as the mood fits.
Review Policy: I will accept both indie and traditionally published books in physical or audiobook form, I generally do not accept ebooks.