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harborshoreThank you everyone for your TV show recs! I ended up giving my brother a multiple choice card based on some of your suggestions and some of my own, and now he gets to pick one. He was super super pleased.
I'm hopelessly behind with my book recs. I've read so many books this year, and I can't remember where I left off. But.
I thought I'd do a short post about the books I read recently, and then, if you wish, we could trade book recs? Which means you ask me for book recs based on three books you like and also rec me something. I did that once before, and it was lots of fun.
I can't even, with this book. Sharp and sad and warm and lovely. It breaks your heart and then puts it back together. It's about a girl who goes to a boarding school who doesn't know where her mother is. There are a couple of trigger warnings associated with it, most notably for violence, suicide, and minor character death, and if you want to read it but you want more detailed warnings, PM me or email me (homeless dot sky at gmail). It's the best book I've read in a while.
Again with the lovely. This book made me beam stupidly and sniffle and clutch it to my chest in a very melodramatic way on the subway (which caused some staring--I just have feelings about books). The first chapter makes it seem like you're starting a very silly romance novel (not that there's anything wrong with that) but that's not what it is at all. Warm and sweet and wonderful.
God. This book did break me, a little bit. It's a scattered narrative about what it was like to grow up during the war in former Yugoslavia, and it's half magical realism, half brutal, half stunningly poetic, half sharp like a knife. Those are a lot of halves, but this book contains multitudes. TW for war and what that entails. It's truly a remarkable book, and I love it very, very much.
POETRY. This collection is one of my favorites--it has "Funeral Blues" but it also has his poems on the Spanish Civil War and love and--it's a stunning collection. If you like poetry, pick it up.
I continue to prefer Shakespeare, but this play of Marlowe's is--it's overpowering in its disgust with war and violence and the atrocities that go along with them. He was very, very, very good. I read this when I was in Oxford, sitting in a cafe and having breakfast, and it--well. He's good. I'm looking forward to the rest of the plays in this collection.
ETA: Also, I have read nearly everything Robin McKinley has ever written and I can tell you that it is all excellent.
Now you! Rec me a book and/or tell me three books you like so I can tell you a book you might like in return.
I'm hopelessly behind with my book recs. I've read so many books this year, and I can't remember where I left off. But.
I thought I'd do a short post about the books I read recently, and then, if you wish, we could trade book recs? Which means you ask me for book recs based on three books you like and also rec me something. I did that once before, and it was lots of fun.
I can't even, with this book. Sharp and sad and warm and lovely. It breaks your heart and then puts it back together. It's about a girl who goes to a boarding school who doesn't know where her mother is. There are a couple of trigger warnings associated with it, most notably for violence, suicide, and minor character death, and if you want to read it but you want more detailed warnings, PM me or email me (homeless dot sky at gmail). It's the best book I've read in a while.
Again with the lovely. This book made me beam stupidly and sniffle and clutch it to my chest in a very melodramatic way on the subway (which caused some staring--I just have feelings about books). The first chapter makes it seem like you're starting a very silly romance novel (not that there's anything wrong with that) but that's not what it is at all. Warm and sweet and wonderful.
God. This book did break me, a little bit. It's a scattered narrative about what it was like to grow up during the war in former Yugoslavia, and it's half magical realism, half brutal, half stunningly poetic, half sharp like a knife. Those are a lot of halves, but this book contains multitudes. TW for war and what that entails. It's truly a remarkable book, and I love it very, very much.
POETRY. This collection is one of my favorites--it has "Funeral Blues" but it also has his poems on the Spanish Civil War and love and--it's a stunning collection. If you like poetry, pick it up.
Orpheus
What does the song hope for? And moved the hands
A little way from the birds, the shy, the delightful?
To be bewildered and happy,
Or most of all the knowledge of life?
But the beautiful are content with the sharp notes of the air;
The warmth is enough. O if winter really
Oppose, if the weak snowflake,
What will the wish, what will the dance do?
I continue to prefer Shakespeare, but this play of Marlowe's is--it's overpowering in its disgust with war and violence and the atrocities that go along with them. He was very, very, very good. I read this when I was in Oxford, sitting in a cafe and having breakfast, and it--well. He's good. I'm looking forward to the rest of the plays in this collection.
ETA: Also, I have read nearly everything Robin McKinley has ever written and I can tell you that it is all excellent.
Now you! Rec me a book and/or tell me three books you like so I can tell you a book you might like in return.
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Date: 2012-05-28 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-05-28 05:34 pm (UTC)Recs for you: Robin McKinley! Beauty and Sunshine, especially the latter. The former is Beauty and the Beast retold and it's AWESOME, and the latter is, well. Robin McKinley read Twilight, decided she hated it because the heroine had no agency, and wrote a better version.
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Date: 2012-05-28 05:48 pm (UTC)(ps forgive me if you were just being hyperbolic, but Sunshine predates Twilight by two years. If only it had become the pop culture phenomenon instead ;____; )
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Date: 2012-05-28 06:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-05-28 06:16 pm (UTC)