The passage of time and the frailties that accompany it have provided me perspective. And I suspect the same might be for you, as well.
Reblogging to remind everyone:
This is what I mean when I say: Shows will TELL YOU what they are doing. They will tell you. If you pay attention, if you listen, if you just listen to the words that people are saying? They will tell you what they’re going to do.
Oh Louis. Oh Armand.
You don’t “abandon” a reporter you found 10 hours ago at bar. The fascinating boy with as sharp a mind as any human that walks.
We still don’t know what Armand wanted to get out of him. Do we?
The Classics
Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.
- Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
- The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
- Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
- Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
- Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
- Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
- Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
- Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
- The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
- Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
- Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
- Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
- Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
- Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
Textbooks
If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.
- Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
- Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
- KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
- Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
- Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
- MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
- Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
- Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
- Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
- eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.
The Faded Page, which has books that are in public domain in Canada. Lots of Canadian lit, but also lots of mysteries and other works! I recommend the Sayers Collection in particular.
I. AM. FLOORED.
(via victorclays)
Tia Keobounpheng — Who Do You Think You Are No. 8 (pencil, colored pencil, thread on wood, 2023)
(via so-i-did-this-thing)
so titan takedown is set in a realm ruled by oppressive all powerful oligarchs who explicitly make judgements based not on morality but on what entertains them and furthers their power. and the pcs here are a man who grew up without a loving father because he was unjustly imprisoned, a woman who is seen as less desirable and beautiful than the standard of femininity, a literal cat lady, a woman who is larger and hairier and stronger than other women, is something different and difficult to understand, and so is seen as a monster, and a man who healed the sick indiscriminately and so was punished with dirtiness and ugliness and stench and is treated with disgust by everybody who comes near him. interesting
Sheep shearing and fiber festival at Hill-Stead Museum, Connecticut.
Added video so y'all can see this naughty baby cruising from ewe to ewe in the hopes of extra milk.
They were so tiny. Like. Kitty-cat sized kind of tiny.