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the february report
💌 on burnout, admitting it, and moving through the world with it
Mar 1
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Come read with me!
Find out our next novel selection in today's post
Feb 22
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scholarly inquiry: Wuthering Heights
A close reading of Dr. Lodine-Chaffey's essay and an unexpected connection to Stranger Things???
Feb 15
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[from the archive] a closely reading exercise
Don't mindlessly scroll tonight — try this instead.
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Finale: 🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 6: The end of the novel
Feb 9
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The Closely Reading Book Club
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Finale: 🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 6: The end of the novel
Feb 9
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 5: We're deep into volume 2, how will it end?!
Feb 2
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🕯️Wuthering Heights
Week 4: Reflecting on the start of volume 2 (chapters 15-22) and getting into our next chapters
Jan 26
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[from the archive] a closely reading exercise
Don't mindlessly scroll tonight — try this instead.
Feb 15
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📚 how to keep reading academic articles
Part 4 of 4: from reading the scholars to thinking and writing like one
Nov 19, 2025
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📚 how to understand an academic article
Part 2 of 4: literary analysis works with patterns; here's how to identify them
Nov 5, 2025
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6 lessons I learned in grad school
writing is hard, studying effectively is harder, and no one is good at the same exact things
Oct 26, 2025
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☕️ back-to-school advice from Dr. Haley
Take your personal syllabus to the next level
Sep 2, 2025
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do you need to heal your relationship to reading?
a story from my life plus three questions you can ask yourself
Jul 18, 2025
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bonus post: Middlemarch & science
a short bonus essay about the intersections of Victorian literature and science
Jul 15, 2025
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getting into (and staying with) a big book
8 tips for reading big, daunting, and sometimes downright *boring* books
May 25, 2025
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