#current reading

[a-ramblinrose]

― Louise Glück, from ‘Mitosis’        Poems 1962-2012

#Louise Glück #Poems 1962-2012 #Poetry #quote #Current Reading #Current Reading Quotes #Tell all the truth but tell it slant #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos

[lionofchaeronea]

Reading If Not, Winter, Anne Carson's excellent edition/translation of Sappho. There's something deeply haunting about the fragmentary state in which Sappho has come down to us. It's like looking at a torn spiderweb, or a shattered stained-glass window. (Kudos to Carson, by the way, for keeping the conjectures and gap-filling to a minimum and letting Sappho speak for herself, in all her tattered glory.)

#personal #current reading #tagamemnon #Sappho #Anne Carson

[thegothicalice]

Green maiden 🌿 Ophelia top by blxckfly on Etsy, shoes off Amazon, Ophelia earrings by Captain Hanna, Anyanka pendant by The Moonlight Myth, dress and belt vintage.

#ootd #current reading #Ophelia #leaf shoes #blxckfly #captain hanna #green maiden #the moonlight myth #Anyanka pendant

[blxopium]

a girl and her books

#bookblr #dark academia #books & libraries #booklover #books #bookworm #current reading

[fatchance]

"Dante, too, encountered the greatest difficulty, in the form of three fierce wild beasts, before he had even crossed the fateful threshold of the Inferno. Like any traveler, he knew that the first step, abandoning the familiar paths, is the most difficult."

Carlo Rovelli, in White Holes, 2023.

#current reading #quotation #Carlo Rovelli #White Holes #theoretical physics

[memoryarchaeologist]

We don't always love people who deserve it.

— Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

#Chain of Gold #Cassandra Clare #The Last Hours #book quotes #books #quotes #current reading #quote of the day #Thomas Lightwood

[laz-laz-ace-pilot]

I'm loving the Alan Scott solo so much (if you couldn't tell!). People (kinda rightfully) gave DC shit for making a huge deal of revealing a Green Lantern was gay then making it Alan, but this story is doing a great job of not only explaining his failed lavender marriages, but also giving him the chaotic, problematic love interest backstory that is a quintessential part of being a GL.

Like

Being blackmailed by J Edgar Hoover for being gay and rather than being forced out of his job is forced to be in the JSA

Signing himself in Arkham Asylum for conversion therapy then after his roommate is lobotomised leading a breakout of the other inmates

His 'dead' boyfriend being a Russian spy and his counterpart supervillain in the middle of the lavender scare

And said boyfriend/spy absolutely denying their relationship was real but anytime Alan gets himself in trouble (which is often) he's terrified for him

I'm having great fun, 10/10. It's not Hal Jordan levels of messy, or as infamous as Kyle's fridged girlfriend but it's a great addition to canon!

#green lantern #alan scott #current reading

[autumnbell32]

“But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.”

- from “Annihilation,” by Jeff Vandermeer

#annihilation #southern reach trilogy #current reading #jeff vandermeer #taking me forever to finish a book these days #literature #books #reading #writeblr #writing

[crepesuzette2023]

A fic you’re currently reading ?

Thanks for asking! My reading is a chaotic activity, but: I'm currently reading these chaptered fics: and why the sea is boiling hot by madamboogie (alsmost done!), your lucky break by milaway, The Story Continues by @javelinbk, and the center of the circle (@backbenttulips).

#fic recs #current reading #asks #mclennon #mclennon fanfiction #currently reading fic recs

[annelolit444]

I'm reading The Virgin Suicides for the first time and this is already one of my favorite books!!! Mary was my favorite character

#current reading #coquette girl #female hysteria #reading #books #the virgin suicides #lana del rey #lovely #i love it #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #im just a girl #softcore #female histeria #aesthetic

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

"To challenge longstanding mythology that West Virginians were incapable of autonomous resistance - a perception seemingly shared by both coal industry apologists and professional agitators - [David] Corbin published a scathing indictment of the latter in the Journal of American History, titled 'Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 1912-1914.' .... Corbin exposed a vein of regional radical history that would be explored by fellow labor historian Fred Barkey in his account of the history of the Socialist Party in early 20th century West Virginia. Even as late as 1993, apologists for Debs would be trying to rescue him from Corbin's indictment, most notably Roger Fagge's 'Eugene V Debs in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal' published in West Virginia History." - Gordon Simmons, preface to David Allan Corbin's Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals

Going to have to read the article.

#labor history #current reading #gun thugs rednecks and radicals

[a-ramblinrose]

“But first and foremost, I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company.”

― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

#quote #Mary Oliver #Upstream: Selected Essays #Upstream #Walt Whitman #Poetry #Writing #From the Writer's Desk #Tell all the truth but tell it slant #i will take the sun in my mouth #Current Reading #Current Reading Quotes #Rose Rereads #not out of void but out of chaos

[lionofchaeronea]

Current nonfiction reading is Suzanne Dixon's The Roman Family. It took a little while to get going (the first chapter was the obligatory review of previous scholarship), but it's a very solid book so far. Dixon is particularly good on the disparity between ideology and reality in ancient family life (e.g. the Romans' clinging to the ideal of the univira or "once-married woman" even as divorce, widowhood, and remarriage were regular aspects of life from at least the late Republic on). She casts her source net widely, too, drawing not just on the usual suspects like legal codes and court speeches, but also on epigraphic and artistic evidence, as well as comparative anthropology. In general, it's a nice corrective to the view of many historians--including, but not limited to, those who wrote in ancient Rome itself--that politics and warfare are the only subjects of real historical interest.

#personal #current reading #tagamemnon

[thegothicalice]

All gothed up, I’ve missed it🦇 Featuring a favorite jacket, a questionable vampire paperback I found in Powell’s, my Acathla pendant I sculpted, and lace top from Disturbia. Seeing Twin Tribes tonight.

#ootd #ootd video #current reading #punk jacket #trad goth #acathla #over knee boots #Disturbia #ankh #open the cellar door

[blxopium]

i love a good reread

#dark academia #bookblr #books & libraries #chicago #writing wip #manuscript #booklover #books #bookworm #current reading #if we were villains #jamesoliver

[teartra]

One thing I love the most from Threads that Bind is the fact that Io wears spectacles. Please, more badass female mc with spectacles

#io ora #threads that bind #current reading #kika hatzopoulou #bookblr #book review