Read Shakespeare’s Sonnets Like A Literary Critic
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Understand The Odyssey In Ten Minutes
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Out of hundreds of books about the Greatest Writer in English, I'd choose these to start with. Plus, key excerpts and artworks from the books themselves.
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On ambition, power, and the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Using books, reading, and literature to get off my damn phone, despite the fact I'm addicted to IG, TikTok, Substack, and the like.
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On Shakespeare's most mysterious, and mythologized, female character.
Everything You Need To Know About Hamlet
And why we are still so obsessed with him.
A "Summerween" Reading & Visual Art List
& a brief literary history of spooky summer, long before Gravity Falls.
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The Whys about Shakespeare that they didn't answer in high school.
31 Days of Literary Journaling
A month of prompts inspired by great books & authors.