Bic for Her Amber Ballpoint Pen Review

Bic for Her Amber BP Black

I’ve never imagined a pen to be anything other than unisex. Well, the powers that be at Bic seem to think otherwise as the Bic for Her Amber ballpoint is marketed especially for women. Something a little hard to get my head around from a company with a culture statement “for everyone everywhere”

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Frankenstein And Other Handwritten Manuscripts Online

Frankestein Manuscript

If you love reading and you love old handwritten documents, here’s a suggestion: some rainy Sunday afternoon, make yourself a cup of your favorite tea, curl on the couch with your tablet and read some of history’s most famous books in their original handwritten form.

One of the most recent to show up online is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, made available by the Shelley-Godwin Archive.

The collection offers both her notebooks and her working drafts of the book. Fortunately, the pages are accompanied by a helpful transcription of the text, exactly as it was written, because her handwriting looks like maybe she was dictating to Frankenstein’s monster.

And that’s only the beginning.

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