as always, I’d love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it’s one of the “other” choices!
I LOVED Nancy Drew. Received about 60 of them hand-me-down from a friend of my brother’s.
I also loved the Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown. I read a few Sherlock Holmes stories and tried to read the Hardy Boys (mostly because of the TV series). But, Nancy Drew was my FAVE.
1-2. How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies) 3-4. The Age of Enlightenment: Adam Smith 5-6. The Age of Enlightenment: Gabrielle Emile le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Chatelet
shonibare is an absolutely fantastic disabled british-nigerian artist who combines african textiles with european colonial fashion and props to specifically question and critique the eurocentric history of african exploitation, and the way european wealth was extracted from african people and land. tumblr hates reblogs with links but i highly encourage everyone to look up his wikipedia and personal website. ive seen some of his pieces in galleries and they’re life sized, gorgeous, and incredibly haunting.
The fact that Shakespeare implied an entire fraught backstory to Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship with only five words - I know you of old - is so genius. This play is so genius. I don’t think I’ll ever get over the cleverness and subtly of writing in Much Ado.
DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
