Snagged this beauty from the book exchange at uni. Now I owe it a book....

Book mail 🥰

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Today's rabbit hole involved reading how Samuel Taylor Coleridge was interested in Hebrew and Kabbalah. Drawing parallels between Christabel and the Biblical Deborah reminded me I was named after her. Drawn to the Kabbalah in my younger years, to say I was born for this is an understatement 🫢

I headed into Sheffield this morning in fog reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk.

Excited to be starting my masters in English Literature. I'll be focussing on the gothic. First seminar tomorrow.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,879,066!

Oh I've just discovered Bernard Cornwell!

Perks.

I will never stop loving the shapes at the University of Sheffield.

Sorting out some 1970s cookery books for sale on eBay and found a recipe my mum had written out. That's so mum. Putting a recipe in a recipe book.

I bought this edition of Immanuel Kant's Critique from a charity shop. It was a bargain compared to the £111 price tag for a new or £30 for a good secondhand copy. A bargain because it had been highlighted, annotated, and dedicated in sharpie, highlighter, pen and pencil but who are Minnie & Rusty?

Today's literary musing is Wide World Magazine, a British periodical sold between 1898 & 1965. Known for thrilling, adventurous content - 'true' stories of exploration travel and adventure from around the globe. Its content is 'of its time' but was my dad's favourite read growing up in the 1930's

Literary things on my mind this week include Rosa Mulholland, an Irish novelist, poet and playwright born in Belfast in 1841 who died in 1921. She was a prolific writer during the 19th and early 20th centuries, producing a significant body of work that included novels, short stories, and plays.