I wrote one of my papers in college I was really proud of on his poem "Bone Dreams". What an amazing poet. RIP.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
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 28378
"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 28378
"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 28378
"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 28378
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Amy - Sep 02, 2013 5:34:28 pm PDT #21312 of 28378
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 28378
"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 28378
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 28378
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 28378
"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 28378
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?