Rebecca 📖

“all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” bookshop owner/writer. The Rapture of the Deep: A Collection of Short Stories

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

If I could envision an earthly paradise it would be a cottage on a cliff overlooking the sea. Days spent writing or taking long walks without destination. Fire-lit evenings talking & laughing with those I love.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@LeoStrauss3rd It’s beautiful

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

Yes. Read Anna Karenina before war and peace. AK is only about 900 pages, in comparison to W&P approximately 1400 pages ;)

But honestly, this is great advice

[Natalie Issa @njissawrites]

One of the best pieces of reading advice I got was this:

Don't read Infinite Jest before reading something else David Foster Wallace wrote.

A friend told me this when I expressed interest in reading the tome.

She recommended A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, an essay collection, first. And it was great advice:

It made reading Infinite Jest feel less like going through whitewater rapids and more like floating through some choppy but known waters.

So take this advice before tackling a big book:

Read something shorter by the same author to get your feet wet.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@JoshPhillipsPhD 😂

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@AkaMacGyver 🎯

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@JuliaJuliagulia Yes!

[Armond Boudreaux @armondboudreaux]

“He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it.”

Camus
“An Absurd Reasoning”

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@FreshSardonic Someone told me a while ago it’s the only thing they’d recommend the abridged version of. They’d read both and said the abridged kept all the meat. I haven’t read it yet, but might take their recommendation

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

I’ve never thought about it either. And honestly thought quite a number of books were far shorter than they were, like Anna Karenina and Wuthering heights, simply because I did not want them to end. I frequently have ppl come to the shop though who are daunted by any book they perceive as “big”

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@Jaeger_Sieben Same, it’s a list I only ever keep adding to 😅

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@saguaro_ghost This is just lovely. If only more lists were like this.

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

Liberals spent years lobbying schools to push students through whether they were ready or not and now they’re surprised they aren’t actually learning anything

[Bugman Hegel @FedPoasting]

Not only is it hilarious that they’re calling neighborhood zoned schools “segregated schools,” but they’re still beating the drum that academic performance is related to expenditures per pupil, even while this has been thoroughly, thoroughly put to rest time and time again.

To consciously make the decision to continue to believe this complete falsehood is to simply partake in utter fantasy, and any moral stances taken upon such falsehoods, even if they are morally consistent following from acceptance of such falsehoods, should not be lauded.

She made the ego-driven decision to walk herself into a fictitious reality, and any moral stances build on top of a fictitious reality, are still predicated upon the initial lie, and thus cannot and will not be credited.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@redl3tters 💯

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@the_book_land @collected_mind @CultivatedBooks @armondboudreaux @Kulambq @BretVDB @athenaeumbc @the_culturist_ @DemocritusSr @Rosie_Gamgee_ @jacqueboatman @DurhamWASP Thank you both! What a great list!

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@BumpkinEsq Absolutely. This article is a gross admission of how far people will go to virtue signal, it’s terribly wrong.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

She’s not alone in this, even though a majority of white people in underperforming districts send their kids elsewhere, there’s still a huge psyop to make white people believe the issues in these schools are their fault and there’s a not-small cohort who virtue signals by way of sending their children to these schools, or at least telling others they should. In grad school we were shamed for even considering that a family might want to find another school if their district was lacking, it was almost exclusively framed as a problem of “white flight” - the underlying meaning was that whites were considered more affluent and if they left they’d take their money and higher standards with them. As @herandrews has explained, refusing to acknowledge the underlying issue, takes us right back to square one.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I read the brutal and heartbreaking confession of Nikole Hannah Jones this morning and my thought that this could signal the beginning of a NEW HUMBLE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST Nikole who is NOT consumed by narcissism arrogance hatred bitterness and fragility lasted about 5 seconds.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@Pointblank_78 I completely understand having preferences or even some textural dislikes but it’s so prevalent now to just cater to every whim of your child

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

Listening to two ladies talk about their sons’ food proclivities.
“I paid mine $5 to try bacon”
“Mine will eat butter noodles. He’s 12 and just tried his first burger.”
“Oh mine would never touch noodles, he only eats crunchy foods.”

We are training a generation to be utterly neurotic and demanding. It’s actually quite demoralizing how common this is.

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@arts_of_war Absolute masterpiece

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

@BBHerodotus Wow this is incredible