“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
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“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on..."
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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_PG Wodehouse, on the subject of advice:_ "I always advise people never to give advice." — Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1953) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"After the first two chapters, it just seems like he's trying to get every word he'd ever heard into the book."
- my dad (re-reading Moby Dick)
_Wodehouse, asked to describe his writing process:_ "I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit." — Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1953) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"He moved through the crowd with the easy grace of a carthorse making its way through a field of standing corn." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"He wore the expression of a man who has just discovered that a loved one has been at the whisky." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
Bertie, reflecting on his valet with the wisdom of hard-won experience: "Jeeves is always right. This is not a conclusion I have reached lightly. It is the fruit of long and frequently painful experience." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
Your first classic should make you want to read a second one.
Forget the pressure to start with the biggest, densest book on the shelf. Find the classic that matches the kind of story you already enjoy.
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On becoming engaged, again: "It is a curious thing about engagements. They come upon you suddenly, and before you know it you are in the soup." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
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Checking in. Still slowly working through #LonesomeDove I’m also #reading #Thirty-NineSteps on my X3. (I love this tiny reader.)
I’ve had some knitting projects come up. Cuts into my reading time. 🧶
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**Bertie** "Madeleine Bassett held the view that the stars were God's daisy chain, and cried when she saw a dead kitten. I had never met anyone like her before, and felt I could readily get on without meeting anyone like her again." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
**Narrator** "Lord Emsworth's attention had been riveted, from the very first moment, on the Empress of Blandings. She was looking even more rotund and beautiful than ever." — Summer Lightning (1929) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_On being asked to resolve a situation entirely of his own making:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, I have an idea." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_On Roderick Spode and his side venture into fashion:_ "You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's hats. One or the other. Both is out." — Narrator, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"He had the look of one who has drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"She sagged. Not much, but perceptibly — like a leaky tyre." — Thank You, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit