It's hard work being a cat #nextdoorscat

“I began that day with the words 'It was on a dreary night of November," making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1831 Author's Introduction Bodleian Library University of Oxford

"I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein #GrimLitFriday

"To see a wretched criminal squirming in the dock, suffering the tortures of the damned… was to me an exquisite pleasure." And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie #GrimLitFriday #bookchatweekly

She dressed like a widow who loved to grieve. Cheryl Low, Vanity in Dust #GrimLitFriday

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein #GrimLitFriday

'Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind' #GrimLitFriday 1)

#Folkloresunday #Autumn Beneath the leaves so crisp and bright, A hedgehog yawns at autumn’s light. He stretches wide, his eyelids fall, The forest whispers, soft and small. With cozy dreams he tucks away, Till springtime calls another day. The Hedgehogs Slumber, Mark R. West.

Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth. (The Taming of the Shrew) #ShakespeareSunday (Shakespeare‘s school in Stratford)

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: SCHOOL DAYS & EDUCATION!

"I have already sworn, That is, to live and study here three years." - Love's Labour's Lost #ShakespeareSunday

Midsummer Night's Dream [III, 2] Helena. 🎓 'O, is it all forgot, all school-days' friendship, childhood innocence.' #ShakespeareSunday

#shakespearesunday "Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.." Coriolanus 2.1🐻🐯 #winniethepooh #tigger #education

As You Like It [V, 1] Touchstone. 🎓🃏 "I do now remember a saying: 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'" #ShakespeareSunday

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Henry VI, Part II - Act IV, Scene VII #ShakespeareSunday

Romeo and Juliet [I, 5] Juliet. 🎓📚 'You kiss by the book.' #ShakespeareSunday

#ShakespeareSunday “ Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?” (T&C)

#ShakespeareSunday “ Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech” (T&C)

Love's Labour's Lost [I, 1] Ferdinand. 🎓💃 'These be the stops that hinder study quite, and train our intellects to vain delight.' #ShakespeareSunday