I wrote one of my papers in college I was really proud of on his poem "Bone Dreams". What an amazing poet. RIP.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Frankenbuddha - Aug 30, 2013 3:49:31 am PDT #21308 of 28405
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Kat - Aug 30, 2013 3:45:40 pm PDT #21309 of 28405
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
"Bone Dreams" ability to leap over time by thinking about language is so beautiful.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 30, 2013 6:16:18 pm PDT #21310 of 28405
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My professor (who as it turns out I was INCREDIBLY lucky to get as a freshman English major, and I count her as a formative influence on thinking about literature) - Robert Penn Warren's daughter - suggested, before we started on the essay, that we look at the Oxford English dictionary and try to follow the roots of the words in the poem. Something, I suspect, that Seamus hadn't done, but was probably in his bones, so to speak.
chrismg - Sep 02, 2013 3:51:33 pm PDT #21311 of 28405
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Amy - Sep 02, 2013 5:34:28 pm PDT #21312 of 28405
Because books.
I need some book recs. I finished The Passage (and loved it), but I don't have the sequel yet. I finished the FitzOsborne books and loved them, too.
I need something I can escape into, something as page-turning as The Passage. To choose from I have Wolf Hall, The Light Between Oceans, The Forgotten Garden, The Little Friend, Dark Places, A Discovery of Witches, and Joe Hill's Horns. Thoughts? (There are dozens of others I could choose from, but I'm looking for longish, engrossing, really removed from my life.)
sj - Sep 02, 2013 5:40:50 pm PDT #21313 of 28405
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I would vote for Dark Places,but you didn't like Gone Girl, right? Or am I thinking of someone else? In which case I would vote for Horns, even though I didn't read it. I recently read his NOS4A2 and loved it.
Amy - Sep 02, 2013 5:45:32 pm PDT #21314 of 28405
Because books.
No, I loved Gone Girl and started Dark Places and couldn't get into right away. I'm not sure I'm the mood for someone so hateful, though.
If you liked NOS4A2, try Heart-Shaped Box, his first. It was fantastic.
Strix - Sep 02, 2013 5:46:01 pm PDT #21315 of 28405
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I hate to say this, because I loved "The Secret History" so, so much, but I found "The Little Friend" really quite boring. And on another downer note, I couldn't get through "A Discovery of Witches" and I was bummed, because I love a good academically oriented paranormal.
I quite like Kate Morton. "The Forgotten Garden" isn't my favorite, but it's nicely engrossing.
ETA: Oh, and for those who liked "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt, I highly rec "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand.
sj - Sep 02, 2013 5:46:53 pm PDT #21316 of 28405
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
If you liked NOS4A2, try Heart-Shaped Box, his first. It was fantastic.
I have it on my kindle, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Atropa - Sep 02, 2013 5:57:39 pm PDT #21317 of 28405
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I highly rec "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand.
I love that book. So much.
because I love a good academically oriented paranormal.
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova?