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I'm not even going to try to explain it but Donna Tartt is COMFORT because that's what GOOD, REAL STORIES WRITTEN WELL are.
#Donna-Tartt #The-Secret-History #The-Goldfinch #comfort #great-literature #comfort-reading #intelligence-is-comfort #compassionate-comprehension-of-human-nature-is-comfort #the-right-words-in-the-right-order-are-comfort #literature #great-writers -
“I hope we’re all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
In May 2026 I'll be offering a one-month standalone module on #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Everyone is invited! #WhyDunItMystery #Mystery #DarkAcademia #Gothic #TrueCrime #Bookstodon
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2437/
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25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
March will be here soon!
I'm delighted to report that in Spring '26 I'll be offering two standalone (but related) modules with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Each focuses on an important novel related to the same real-life, #TrueCrime unsolved case. #DarkAcademia #PoliceProcedural #Books #Bookstodon
March: #LastSeenWearing by #HillaryWaugh: Discovering a Turning Point in #CrimeFiction
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0910/
May: #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt: Unpacking the 'WhyDunIt' #Mystery
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0912/
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“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*
#The-Secret-History #Donna-Tartt #book-quote #literature #quotes #dark-academia #perception #beauty #affinity #culture #intellectualism #read-books #support-your-local-library #be-curious -
Now confirmed! I am delighted to report that in Spring '26 I'll be offering two standalone (but related) modules with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. Each focuses on an important novel related to the same real-life, #TrueCrime unsolved case. #DarkAcademia #PoliceProcedural
March: #LastSeenWearing by #HillaryWaugh: Discovering a Turning Point in #CrimeFiction
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0910/
May: #TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt: Unpacking the 'WhyDunIt' #Mystery
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0912/
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Gary Fisketjon, Legendary Editor Fired from Knopf in 2019, On His Next Act
In August 1978, Raymond Carver drove his rattletrap Ford stat…
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It all started with #DonnaTartt's The Secret History - the ur-text of dark academia as it is defined today!
Read the novel: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=122144333
& consult the reader's guide by Tracy Hargreaves: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1628286903
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Book 35: “The Secret History” by #DonnaTartt.
I realize now that I have no idea what #DarkAcademia is as a genre (see my journey in this thread). This is supposedly the best example. Magic really isn’t part of it.
This book isn’t for me. Outside of my mistaken expectations, the characters are assholes (a requirement!) and it went on way too long. The writing at the start made me take notice—Tartt can *write*—but I just didn’t care for her world and its people.
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"When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go."
10 Donna Tartt Quotes:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/12/23-december-donna-tartt-quotes.html
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Hollywood Can’t Figure Out How to Adapt Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’
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#DarkAcademia work:
#TheSecretHistory by #DonnaTartt (1992)Quote:
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does.7/32
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#Booktodon #Books #Libros #Livres
New Life, new books
Books read / Libros leídos / Livres lus
#It #StephenKing But *that* scène, very very well / Excepto *esa* escena, muy muy bien / Sauf *la* scène , très très bien
Book reading / Libro leyendo
#TheGoldfinch #ElJilguero #DonnaTartt last 100 pages are so great! Long worthfull travel / Las últimas 100 páginas son la leche. Un viaje largo pero lo merece / Les derniers 100 pages sont géniales. Un voyage long mais ça vaut la peine
Books in stand-by / Libros en espera/ Livres en attend
#TheMysteriesOfUdolpho #LosMisteriosDeUdolfo #AnnRadcliffe
Books targeted / Libros en la mirilla / Livres dans la cible
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Ahem...
*Taps foot; looks at watch...
Your customary writing decade is almost up, Ms Tartt.
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If you’ve read #DonnaTartt’s #TheGoldfinch, you’ll love this story. Or even if you haven’t.
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"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."
first sentence of "The secret history" by #DonnaTartt on #isbnmaschine
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@harrypotterA couple of thoughts:
Some folks consider #Hogwarts to be #DarkAcademia, and there are lots of #HarryPotter fans who would like to be students there.
I graduated from #BenningtonCollege, which #DonnaTartt used as a model for the college in "The Secret History." I occasionally ask myself whether I would choose that experience again, if I had a chance. I've never come to a firm conclusion!
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The joys of January (Donna Tartt, The Secret History) #DonnaTartt #TheSecretHistory #January #AmReading
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The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on - BBC Culture https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221020-the-secret-history-a-murder-mystery-that-thrills-30-years-o
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@garykruse @bookstodon Mostly #Heidegger this week, He's easier to read in German than in translation. Amazingly poetic too, for a philosopher. Also carrying on with #DonnaTartt|s The Goldfinch, #HeinrichBöll|s beautiful lovestory novella 'Der Zug war pünktlich '(The Train Was on Time) and #KarenBlixen|s autobiographical 'Den afrikanske Farm' (Out of Africa)..yes i jump between books, according to mood 😉
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#Introduction My name is Lars and I come from #Scania. My academic background is in #arthistory and #linguistics though I nowadays mostly work in #embeddedcomputing and #translation
My addictions include #art and #music of many kinds and I am always reading: currently books by #DonnaTartt, #AlfredDöblin and #PeterHøeg.
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I also enjoy learning new languages - right now #Cymraeg (#Welsh) and #한국어 (#Korean) and exploring #philosophy -
#7Books to know me:
#LeavesOfGrass by #WaltWhitman.
#StationEleven by #EmilyStJohnMandel
#BalladOfTheSadCafé by #CarsonMcCullers
#TheExpanse series by #JamesSACorey
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Trying to come up with a “favourite authors” list, as I’ve seen a few other people do. It’s tricky, because it changes all the time. But here’s a list of authors from whom any new release would be considered as a “must buy”.
#RobbieArnott
#KateAtkinson
#AnthonyDoerr
#TanaFrench
#ChinaMieville
#ClaireNorth
#PhillipReeve
#RichardPowers
#DonnaTartt
