Bookshelfie

This is me being Internet trendy.  The bookshelf belongs to the library of a certain think-tank.

Library picks

Clockwise, from the left:  Flying Home and Other Stories, Ralph Ellison (1996); What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politcs, Adrienne Rich (1993); The Jazz Poetry Anthology (1991); Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje (1976); Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

Currently reading...

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (2005)

"When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started not just to mean something, but everything."

Last night, whilst

Last night, whilst casually reading:

I happened across the passage of the .jpg excerpt I've had stored on my phone for ages:

I think I must have Google-searched quotations and phrases from the story after I had seen the film some years ago.  Generally, I prefer to read the book first.  However, when I happened upon the movie I hadn't known it was based on a novel (Ishiguro 2005).  A good forty-five minutes into the film and I instinctively knew that the picture was too good to not have literary origins.  Google confirmed my suspicions and the rest, as they say, is history.

Freewrite throwback

How big is my brave: Deciduous

Link: A Poem

ITCH Magazine: A Journal of Creative Expression (Issue #12 Taboos) published another one of my poems.

A leap of honesty

Link: A Letter

The incredible lightness of self-preservation...

It's like yoga for your sanity.

The last book that made you cry?

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Had my face awash with tears.