The 25 Most Challenging Books You Will Ever Read. Thereadingroom. Books are beautiful – even more so when displayed on a gorgeous and creative bookshelf!
Check out the images below to see some of the weirdest, most creative, and most beautiful bookshelves we think you'll love. Lifelong Learner: 100 Essential Books. Feminist Science Fiction Is the Best Thing Ever. Hello, ladies.
Are you into science fiction? Consider The Female Man, a 1970 science fiction novel by the late Joanna Russ, which takes place in four worlds inhabited by four different women who share the same genotype and whose names all start with the letter J. There’s Jeannine Dadier, who lives in 1969 in an America that never recovered from the Great Depression; Joanna, also in 1969, but in an America like ours; Janet Evason, an Amazonian beast who lives in an all-female world called Whileaway; and Alice Reasoner, or “Jael,” a warlord from a future where women and men have been launching nukes at each other for decades.
The first time I read The Female Man, I felt like the hotel room carpeting had been ripped out from beneath my feet, revealing a glittering intergalactic parquet that had somehow been there all along. Those were boy stories. Two classics of the feminist science fiction canon. Welcome to Open Library (Open Library) Bromwich, D.: Moral Imagination: Essays. (eBook and Cloth) Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics.
David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and topics from Gandhi and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance, to the dangers of identity politics, to the psychology of the heroes of classic American literature. Bromwich demonstrates that moral imagination allows us to judge the right and wrong of actions apart from any benefit to ourselves, and he argues that this ability is an innate individual strength, rather than a socially conditioned habit. Intellectual Curiosities and Provocations. Everyman's Library (New Series) Complete Serial List. Metablog on Metafiction. The Constructed Reader Every text constructs a reader for itself.
(You, my friend!) New in Print at Princeton University Press. Bromwich, D.: Moral Imagination: Essays. (eBook and Cloth) Harvard University Press. Now Available: Browse our interactive Spring/Summer 2014 catalog.
Find new editions of classic works from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, I Tatti Renaissance Library, and Loeb Classical Library®. Booksellers and Librarians: Our new titles are also available via Edelweiss. [Spring 2014 | Autumn 2013 | Spring 2013 | Autumn 2012] Literature. The Devil's Dictionary. 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers. The trick to successfully reading Ulysses : books. Getting infinite audiobooks for free : Frugal_Jerk. Www.cas.umt.edu/english/joyce/index.php?chapter=nestor¬es=1# — You, Cochrane, what city sent for him?
— Tarentum, sir. — Very good. Melville's Marginalia Online. Information Is Beautiful — Rhetological Fallacies. The Library of Altered States. Drmardy.com: A web site for lovers of wit and wordplay. 3000 Free Audio Books + eBooks, Download for iPhone, Android, Kindle and more! The Greatest Advice Book of All Time: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca. The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, and other monstrosities « Glossographia. Over at my obscure words website, The Phrontistery, there’s been a word that has been the subject of many astonished inquiries over the years: eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, which means simply ‘good’.
At 30 letters, it’s the longest word on a site that’s full of them. More to the point, because my site is one of the most prominent places you can find the word, and because it doesn’t appear in any standard dictionaries (including the mammoth Oxford English Dictionary), over the years, I have had many people write to ask whether it is in fact a real word at all. Online Etymology Dictionary. Wordnik. Cure writer's block with writing prompts - writing tips character name generator.
Weird Words Index. 100 Most Beautiful Words In The English Language. Garden path sentence. According to one current psycholinguistic theory, as a person reads a garden path sentence, the reader builds up a structure of meaning one word at a time.
At some point, it becomes clear to the reader that the next word or phrase cannot be incorporated into the structure built up thus far; it is inconsistent with the path down which they have been led. Garden path sentences are less common in spoken communication because the prosodic qualities of speech (such as the stress and the tone of voice) often serve to resolve ambiguities in the written text. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Lexiphilia. KnowWords. Collectives.
A collective noun is a descriptor for a group of entities of one kind, such as a herd of cows or a flock of birds.
More interesting are a gaggle of geese or a murder of crows. This searchable dictionary contains most of the special collectives used in English. Lovely Little Lexemes. Book Art That Will Melt Your Brain. A Point of View: In defence of obscure words. 20 April 2012Last updated at 17:07 GMT We chase "fast culture" at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us, says Will Self.
We are living in a risk-averse culture - there's no doubt about that. But the risk that people seem most reluctant taking is not a physical but a mental one: just as the concrete in children's playgrounds has been covered with rubber, so the hard truth about the effort needed for intellectual attainment is being softened by a sort of semantic padding. Our arts and humanities education at secondary level seems particularly afflicted by falling standards - so much so that universities are now being called upon to help write new A-level syllabuses in order to cram our little chicks with knowledge that, in recent years, has come to seem unpalatable, if not indigestible - knowledge such as English vocabulary beyond that which is in common usage.
"Difficult" is the key word here. 10 Kick-Ass Secret Passage Bookshelves. If there’s one dream that unites all bookish folks (aside from, you know, universal literacy) it’s the dream of having a secret passageway hidden behind a bookcase. Ok, maybe it just unites some of us- but there’s no denying that there’s something super-nifty about having a bookcase that moves to reveal a space only you know about. You and your builder. Anywoot! Here’s a roundup of ten of my favorite bookish secret passageways from around the interwebs: Nothing says old money like a piano and a room hidden behind warm wood floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. This kid’s bookshelf opens to a secret reading nook. Books reading and writing. 623 of the Best Books Ever Written. The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time.
Dystopian novels—stories of the horrific future—are so common as to be almost forgettable. Here is a compilation of what I believe are the 16 greatest of the genre. I could happily list twice as many that are amazing, but these are the best. Villains Wiki - villains, bad guys, comic books, anime. Books that will induce a mindfuck. Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
The Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books. Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. Top Ten Best Novels You've Never Heard Of - The Journal Pulp. Or perhaps you have. Yet the following list, laid out in no particular order (with the exception of Number 1), is relatively obscure: Nothing is as it seems under the sharp western sun. After recovering from an enigmatic and near-fatal illness, Gasteneau, a man with an iron will, glimpses something so extraordinary and so horrific that he feels his life irrevocably altered. But did he really see what he thinks he saw? Learn Philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Skeptic's Dictionary.
Brain Pickings. Fabula, la recherche en littérature. Carlos Schwabe, Les fleurs du mal. Waylines - Speculative Fiction and Film. Thomas Larson: The Great Literary Future Behind Us. Synergetics and The Wellspring of Reality: Buckminster Fuller Against Specialization. By Maria Popova. The Philosophy of Style: Herbert Spencer on the Economy of Attention and the Ideal Writer (1852) By Maria Popova “To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.”
A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments of Teaching. Sci-fi-book-flow-chart.jpg (Image JPEG, 3800x2300 pixels) - Redimensionnée (33. Nomadics — Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too. POOR JOHN Kerry. Dead White Guys: An Irreverent Guide to Classic Literature. List of Metafictional Works.
A list of metafiction and works that contain metafictional elements. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but to be a description of certain key metafictional works with links to posts on my website and external links. Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 1979. Characters consult The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the playful science fiction novel of the same name. Contra Mundum Press. StarShine and Shadows - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Essays by Alan Gullette. Modern Masterpieces of Comedic Genius: The Art of the Humorous Amazon Review, Part Deux. By Maria Popova From scientific miracles to literary criticism, by way of bodily functions and failures of common sense. Rhetoric & Fallacies. Rhetoric.
Classical Rhetoric 101: An Introduction. Rhetorical Analysis. RationalWiki. The Dragon in My Garage. Non-Overlapping Magisteria. Figures of Speech. Figures of Speech Exercises. Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies.