Erin Turner 📚

PhD student in English lit. All my hobbies involve books 📚 (oops). Posts about grad school, reading (especially the classics), random nerdiness 🤓.

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Hellooooo took a three-week Twitter hiatus and it was really nice so I'll be mostly staying away for a while longer.

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Cat meowing at me insistently
I look up, concerned he is hurt
Nope, just sitting at the front door, asking to go outside
(I live in an apartment. He is not allowed to go outside)
(He enjoys sneaking out when I leave though)

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@NoldorApologist *grabby hands*

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@fullnessofjoy16 B. You end with the most evocative part of the sentence (the simile), with the necessary context before. It lets the reader focus on that lovely comparison, as opposed to burying it in the middle of the sentence as in A.

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I'm sitting in my cat's favorite chair right now, which was apparently a declaration of war.

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@Evergreena Thanks!!

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@NoldorApologist Convinced my fiancé to read THS this summer and since then we’ve both been seeing the Current Times through Lewis’s eyes and oh boy. “Time to find Merlin” is a common quip.

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@HaleyCarrots I didn’t know this was a think I wanted but now I NEED

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Oh, you know, just analyzing a Vonnegut short story with my fiancé at 11:30 pm.
We are so weird.

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@TolkienSociety Sure she did, but that doesn’t mean I want to see it —reading about it is different. There are ways to film scenes that suggest nudity without showing it.

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@NoldorApologist If true, that's the last straw for me.

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@thoughtinkling2 Congratulations! I also failed my driver's test the first time around. I was so nervous I totally sabotaged myself.

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My weekly, online, 3-hour class is about to start, so of course my body is like, "hey, you know what would be great right now? A nap."

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@elteetrav @TeawithTolkien Well, mushrooms and comfort food is a Hobbit thing. I just happened to have the ingredients for Salisbury steak at hand.

Highly recommend the audio books! Rob Inglis is a great narrator.

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It's #hobbitday! The weather is rainy and cool. I'm lighting my eleventy-first birthday candle, listening to LOTR, making Salisbury steak (mushrooms!) with mashed potatoes for dinner, and scones with apple cider jam for dessert. There will also be hot cocoa. @TeawithTolkien

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@NoldorApologist Publication absolutely, definitely for the first read. Chronological is fun for a second (or third, or sixth) read just to mix things up.
But the first time you've gotta start with LWW.

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@katiejlumsden Congratulations!

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@BrentonDana This has literally never occurred to me, and I am the worst about forgetting attachments. Thank you!

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@mstiefvater I did not say BEAGLE? out loud but I said it that way in my head; does that count?

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@Sally_Clarkson Virgil Wander by Leif Enger is a delight. I read it during a hard time a few years ago and it was exactly what I needed. Full of heart and hope and life, with a bit of whimsy thrown in for good measure.