[bumfmail]

Currently Reading/Rereading: Wuthering Heights, Metamorphosis

Favorite Book: A Farewell to Arms

Preferred Themes: pathetic romance, devastatingly beautiful

Syllabus/Reading List: Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, Flowers for Algernon, The Trial

[academiaatitsfinest]

Water, is taught by thirst.

Land - by the Oceans passed.

Transport - by throe -

Peace - by its battles told-

— Emily Dickinson

[citizenscreen]

Ernest Hemingway was announced as the winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Old Man and the Sea” on May 4, 1953.

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, from the draft of "Poppies in July"

[mournfulroses]

Iulia Bochis, from a poem featured in "The Sun, the Sea and the Stars: Ancient wisdom as a healing journey,"

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald featured in The Selected Letters of Ernest Hemingway

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[petaltexturedskies]

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[macrolit]

Ernest Hemingway's home library in Cuba

[kleinergeist]

Hey. Don't cry. Weird teenage girl somewhere out there reading Frankenstein for the first time. Ok?

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Marth Gellhorn

[metamorphesque]

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[dark-augustine]

Me to myself

[mournfulroses]

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021