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@tarvalon-net started new project on their FB page “Memes & Miscellany” with which to promote some of our fellow WOT pals on the wild Internet.
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This is such a great honor I love both Memes & Miscellany THANK U
The next project for Marlon James — the Man Booker Prize-winning author of 2014's A Brief History of Seven Killings…
I have never read Marlon James, but this is such a lovely interview and it got me SUPER excited for these books to come out. It also made me excited to read A Brief History of Seven Killings, which was tragically not on my radar before this.
My favorite bit from the interview:
“I still wanted a world that, in some ways, doesn’t make any sense, or is just really not quite our plane of existence. Because in a lot of real African storytelling, there is no separation between reality and dream, or reality and fantasy, or the dead and the living. They don’t make those distinctions. It’s one of the reasons why, sometimes, Africans going through things like schizophrenia end up being curious, because their voices are all affirmative. Like, do you really want to cure somebody who has their own private cheerleading squad?“
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Well, imagine you are alone in a room… Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That’s the gift of being alone.
Colson Whitehead, The Noble Hustle (via quotespile)
Hey! Hey! Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.
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A Guide To Troubled Ta’veren
Moiraine:
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Gift from a mentor = the best type of gift. I WEEP.
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This links to the episode with Jesmyn Ward (episode 4) from her book launch for Sing, Unburied Sing this past fall. It’s a bit of a throwback, but I was at the launch and it was such a good event and I was thinking about it the other day. I hope you enjoy!!
I Got It: It was another one of the classics given to me by my mother after I, the coolest kid around, expressed an interest in wanting to read more classical literature.
I Thought About It: I didn’t really care for it. It mostly just bored me, though there was definitely a nice dose of English charm and the charm of children’s literature. And a very good bird, if I remember correctly.
Upper Library, The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Science fiction and fantasy, long dominated by Western mythology, are growing more diverse, with novels that draw on African mythology and legends.
“Magic, ritual and secrecy are threads that run through Ms. Okorafor’s wildly imaginative young adult fantasy series, which features a head-spinning menagerie of otherworldly spirits and deities drawn from Nigerian myths and legends.”
I Got It: It was on the syllabus for a creative writing class I took. It is written entirely in various epistolary forms like letters, diaries, telegrams, etc. so we read it to study FORM and to think about how books are written. We only read sections of it for class, so I didn’t finish it until 2 years later.
I Thought About It: I was not expecting to, but I absolutely adored it. It’s obviously a monster book and it has elements of horror and other ~spooky~ bits but there is a lot of mystery involved as well, which I loved. I’m really glad my professor chose it for us to study form, because I adore how it is written. I had never gotten into epistolary novels before, but written correspondence was such a fun way to tell a monster story since it all came about secondhand and the reader has to fill in the gaps, which means the human imagination applies worse details than Stoker ever could.
Bullroarer
“Used in the ceremonies of various cultures, especially by shamans, a bullroarer is a piece of wood containing a spirit - sometimes a literal one, as in the cast of the Melanesian culture hero Tiv’r’s son - that is spun around the head to activate the spirit’s voice” (pg 57).
David Leeming in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford University Press, Inc.,2009
the moral of hamlet is don’t ever try to go home and resolve conflicts with yr family just stay at college and do gay shit w ur friends
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