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books, beauty, wholesome whimsy. Dickens lover. married to @littleseamstress. "gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed." patreon.com/sketchesbyboze
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Mrs Owl and I used some of our tax refund to purchase the complete letters of Charles Dickens in TWELVE volumes. We've wanted these for ages but didn't think we could ever get them. We are speechless with joy.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I don't know how to explain to people that it's important to read books, important to keep the mind sharp and active through constant learning, important to spend time with actual humans.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

People are always asking “what are some books that capture the feeling I get when I read The Lord of the Rings” so I made a list:

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I'm sorry but Paddington Bear is a better role model than Andrew Tate. Paddington is kind and polite. he spends an entire summer working in the hopes of buying a book for his great-aunt. and he has not been credibly accused of sex trafficking.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

normalize re-visiting your favorite books from when you were young. C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter, “I don’t know any greater pleasure than returning to a world of the imagination which one has long forsaken and feeling, ‘after all this is my own.’”

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

found a gremlin in the laptop

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I can’t stress enough how much AI is ruining the internet. Pinterest is un-usable, Google image searches are overrun with misleading slop. It’s estimated that there are now more bots on the web than there are people. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

can't believe next summer we get to see the prophecy fulfilled

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

“optimize your writing with AI—” how about you optimize your brain by thinking for yourself and not outsourcing your creativity to companies owned by some of the world’s worst people

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

even if everyone forgets how to read, I’m not giving up on my dreams of being a writer. I’ll be waving my manuscript and hollering “hear ye, hear ye”

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Neil Postman, damn

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

we need to bring back words like wastrel, rogue, ruffian, ne’er-do-well. there is an epidemic of miscreants doing shenanigans and we have lost the vocabulary to describe them.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

It’s good to stay in shape and eat healthy but you also need to be reading. Get a library card. Find a book that appeals to you. Spend a few minutes reading before bed. Your brain will thank you, and you’ll be pleasantly shocked at the joy that books bring.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments