Watch From James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ Up For Auction
A pocket watch featured in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ is up for auction next month and is expected to bring in upwards of £80,000.
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Bookish Masks to Make Your Friends Jealous
Show your love of literature with these five masks hand selected for bookworms.
Happy Bloomsday! Celebrating James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
The gargantuan book follows Leopold Bloom (among others) and takes place over a mere 24 hours on June 16th, and as such, today is Bloomsday!
5 Long Books to Get You Through Long January
Does anyone else feel like January has been ongoing for approximately three years now? The holidays have passed, everyone is back to work and back to class, the light at the end of the January tunnel has never felt so far away. To help you through the remaining two weeks (three months in Jan time), we’ve compiled a list of lengthy books that you can lose yourself in this month. Before you know it, it’ll be February, and you’ll have serious bragging rights. 1. it by stephen King image via amazon Stephen King’s spooky It is as long as it …
12 Challenging Books Readers Struggle to Finish
As a former English major, I’ve had the misfortune pleasure of coming across some of the most intellectually challenging literary works. Believe me, I love to read and I enjoy challenging myself but when it’s Friday night a week from finals and you’re assigned to read Paradise Lost, no one should fault you for turning to SparkNotes. It just so happens that a lot of literary titles that are put on the pedestal of the best literature in history happen to be complicated AF (though very much worth reading). Yes, no one can deny that Moby-Dick is an American classic, but if you’re telling me you’ve never …