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Hal is Currently Reading

Hal is currently reading

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

bookshelves: grad-school, currently-reading, qualifying-exams

read in November 2024

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Hal said: " did i “read this whole thing”? NO! but i will be giving myself credit for how much i did. goodreads is fake let me live. i actually enjoyed chaucer. kinda. "

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(page 1 of 624)
"ah shit, here we go again." — 9 hours, 30 min ago

Dec 27, 2025 05:12PM · see review

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Engendering a Nation (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare)

by Jean E. Howard

bookshelves: early-modern-lit, grad-school, shakespeare, currently-reading

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Dec 25, 2025 02:27PM

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Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern

by Greta LaFleur

bookshelves: early-modern-lit, grad-school, lgbt, qualifying-exams, currently-reading

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"I did NOT finish this in time for my meeting today, worth it to go to the Faustus movie night though. ☺️" — Dec 09, 2025 12:37PM

Nov 30, 2025 02:27PM

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Hal’s Quotes

“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
― Christopher Marlowe

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“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: gay-men, lgbt, oscar-wilde

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“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: fate, history

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“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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“You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!"
It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: case-book, doyle, sherlock-holmes, three-garridebs, watson

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