We share poems here, yes? My friend wrote this one; the author photo is of course the one with the motherfucking BEAR in the background, Sara. And the high visibility vest she's wearing is fluorescent pink, in a thus far successful effort to keep the male foresters from strolling off with it.
(Yes, a bear: she was in the field with two colleagues, one of them had eaten a sandwich about 15 minutes earlier, they started around a copse and not 50 feet away, there was a bear. Sara stood there and calmly explained that while the sandwich had in fact smelled great, it was gone now, and it would be better for all parties concerned if the bear looked for a snack further up the hill. And one of the foresters TOOK A PICTURE as this was happening.)
That is a gorgeous poem, amyparker.
I finally got Piranesi from the library and read it in one sitting tonight.
SO GOOD. So beautifully written, despite the slow reveal of horror and trauma in the past. So many vivid gorgeous passages! So much kindness as well.
That's a very good book.
That is one of the few books I may have to read again. It was really unique.
Yes! I just read that myself and felt like I was under a spell the whole time I was reading it. It's so strange and beautiful and magical. It also made me want to go back and reread
The Magician's Nephew,
which was apparently one of her influences.
Oh wow- I love The Magician’s Nephew, so that makes me want to read it.
I've had that on hold at the library for like a year.
Oh, golly, yes, there's a bit in the beginning where someone drops the name
Ketterley
and I sat right up.
There are also bits of
A Secret History
as well, I think.
Finally got around to reading The City We Became and it was really good! Although I have cousins who grew up on Staten Island, so I have complicated feelings about Aislyn's choices...
I'm currently reading (hard copy) Plain Bad Heroines. I'd read the reviews and thought it sounded interesting, although I misunderstood what it was about. I'm not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. It just seems to be going nowhere - I'm not sure what the author intended it to be about, although I'm willing to go along with it and see where it ends up. Anyone else have any perspective on it?
