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@book-binder
Hi, Elodie- I'm trying to build an email list for my writing. To sweeten the deal, I'm giving away a free book about lacemaking queer orcs, undead firebirds, and old grudges.
Here's the link to the sign-up form.
Well, I signed up and am very excited about this book.
Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny
A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language.
another hilarious example:
my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is
to the uneducated it may seem like hobbits are the only funny bitches, and gandalf just picked it up from them.
to the learned, it is known that gandalf is the first ever funny bitch, and he has taught generations of hobbits every petty snark they’ve ever known because theyre the only motherfuckers who can keep up with him
babe wake up new “not to me not if it’s you” just dropped
[Image Description: Text reading:
‘H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin.
Th: Give me your hand.
H of H: I’ll stain you.
Th: I’ll take it.’
End Description]
#op you can’t just drop this on us and not tell us where it’s from
SINCEREST APOLOGIES it’s from H of H by Anne Carson!! an adaptation of the play Herakles (which she’s also translated) (her translation of Orestes has the specific “not to me/not if it’s you” wording)
WHERE is that poem about that person learning all about their partners hyperfixation before getting dumped the last line is like “love is a stack of books on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end” I need it to feel whole help me please
NYT Tiny Love Stories, 2/11/2020
A Bookmark Near the End
He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp
A friend of mine got a copy of an old Dutch edition of The Hobbit. I absolutely agree with their assessment that this is the best cover art the book has ever had.
The more I look at it the more I love it. Look at it. Look at Bilbo. He’s just a little guy
Hanan Mikhail, tr. by Kamal Boullata, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Arab Women; “Guerrilla”
lemony snicket was really like [darling, dearest, dead] and [i will love you if i never see you again, and i will love you if i see you every tuesday] and [a good library will never be too near, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them] and [the world is quiet without you around] and expected me to be okay?? sounds fake tbh
John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne
Linda Pastan, The Months
every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry
here’s a good thread to read through abt this exact topic as a start !!
because i know most of you can’t be bothered to look at the thread:
take a time to read through the thread if you can!!
most of the ‘sufi poetry’ or works by rumi you’ll read in school or find at any book store or online is just a bunch of this orientalist garbage that not only mistranslates, but intentionally puts forward a colonialist, orientalist mindset that you consume without knowing it
christopher marlowe wrote plays 400 years ago and they went on to give me massive brain rot
literally how was i supposed to read this and be normal about it
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Charles Bukowski
“Bill had a feeling he could not describe that Jim lived so precariously on the world’s surface that he might at any time fall off it into a void; he feared that Jim was like himself, without a natural gravity to hold him on.”
— John le Carré Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year. It is the season of reversals, when the birds no longer sing in the morning and the evenings are made up of equal parts golden light and black clouds. The rock-solid and the tenuous can easily exchange places until everything you know can be questioned and put into doubt.”
— Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic (via shitiunderline)
Emily Henry / Henry H / Matty Healy / Taylor Swift / Madeline Miller
Interested in a very queer adult fantasy book set in a pre-contact America inspired setting? With bisexual and nonbinary characters and cool crow magic and mermaids?
Well, it's on sale for $2 today in the kindle store
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky Book 1) - Kindle edition by Roanhorse, Rebecca. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, pho
— James Baldwin, from, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” originally published in 1974
