Meg Burry (she/her)

PhD Candidate in English Literature, UPEI alumni, 19th century women’s writing, feminist, body positivity, anti-racism 📚🌈

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Every one of the great dystopian novels begins with the premise that the majority of people can no longer read. That dystopia is here. Billions of dollars have been spent to ensure most folks are too distracted ever to pick up a book. A nation that won't read soon forgets how.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The thing I find saddest about our era is how few people seem interested in learning, their lack of openness to things unfamiliar, their incuriosity towards history, books, film. There's so much joy in studying the past, in great works of art, in letting yourself be astonished.

[Jane Austen @austendaily]

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

[shrille 🎃 @flurryfrenzy]

i miss pre-AI internet already

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you're using AI to write essays, something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday, I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.

[Novelle art. @artistryhere]

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[🍂 @Lovandfear]

September slipped

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor's Wife

[Arden Cho @arden_cho]

Replacing artists with AI doesn’t save art, it erases it. Stories need souls, not shortcuts…

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but your PhD doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be finished.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

A PhD is a valuable qualification, signalling to future employers your ability to work hard while mentally unwell

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

People keep calling me real-life Hermione Granger and they are neglecting to note that Emma Watson herself is currently studying for a PhD at Oxford. There’s your real life Hermione Granger.