Brain Pickings

Brainpickings.org is a fantastic blog I stumbled across not too long ago, which is an English students dream! It has lots of blog posts on past and present authors, and artists giving a deep insight into their publications but with lots of interesting facts and findings too! It has much more than that though, as it looks at life and the little things in life as a whole causing you to really think but in a good way.  Some of the posts I found most interesting were letters from long lost authors, which triggered a full day of reading posts from this blog. Be warned, once you start reading you will not want to stop!

"Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn't know you were interested in - until you are. Founded in 2006 as a humble email digest and eventually brought online. the site was included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive in 2012"

"The core ethos behind Brain Pickings is that creativity is a combinatorial force: It's our ability to tap into the mental pool of resources - ideas, insights, knowledge, inspiration - that we've accumulated over the years just by being present and alive and awake to the world, and to combine them in extraordinary new ways. In order for us to truly create and contribute to culture, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these ideas and build new ideas - like LEGOs. The more of there building blocks we have, and the more diverse their shapes and  colours, the more interesting our creations will be."