#homer d poe

[yetanotherthriftblog]

daytripping: Tacoma

I had no plans for the day so I wanted to go to some thrifts I haven’t visited lately. Deseret Industries, my usual Friday haunt, had to wait this week.

First stop, the Goodwill Outlet. Today was a remarkably slow day there, though there was a large crowd waiting for new bins to come out after they’d swarmed all over the clothing bins and picked them clean like starving vultures. Today’s haul included a DVI cable, half a rail of staples (it was a no-name brand of stapler), a rubberstamp of a smiley face with a clown nose, two screwdrivers and a pair of needlenose pliers, three clipboards for work [you’re welcome, Wade] and two items we’ll get to in a minute.

Second stop, the St. Vincent de Paul. I didn’t buy anything but did take a few pictures, so in the near future you will see the four foot tall portrait of Hillary Clinton and a century-old stereo image viewer that was less than ten bucks!

Third stop, Rainbow at the Lakewood Discount World. I miss when they were in a derelect minimart on Steilacoom Boulevard a decade ago, honestly. Anyhow, plenty of excellent things and the signs are great as usual (on the bin of makeup they got from estate sales and storage lockers: “Do Not Use”), but nothing I had to have, though I will be sharing a “live, love, laugh” sign that was in a league of its own.

Fourth stop, Thrift Center. Usually this place is my go-to for frames, but I don’t recall seeing any. And several hole punches but no staplers. This place was the last Bargain World in the chain at one time, and the prices are great and they have multiple colors of percent-off tags and several discount days, but after they became the second store of another local thrift I hardly ever see anything anymore worth the effort.

And home. It was raining so no yardsales, unlike last weekend when I didn’t realize there were yardsales to invade so I stayed inside on the computer.

So the two things I found at the Outlet that are worth talking about:

Four unused stamped envelopes -- seriously, I recooped a third of what I paid today by finding Forever postage just sitting in the bin -- and a 48-page sales circular from 1996 from Home Depot. I’ll be comparing prices at the hardware store I work at to this and crying since Covid-driven inflation has caused a lot of products’ prices to rise, even double, in the last two years.

#thrift finds #thriftstore #homer d poe #hi there koiifished

[flimflix]

do u think Homer D Poe and I can make it work or is there too much corporate red tape

[blurban-form]

Check-out Details @ Hammerbarn

I always like how even small scenes/bits in “Bluey” incorporate a lot of detail. The scene with the nice check-out lady packs in a couple of details.

There are diamond-shaped illuminated checkout number signs at Hammerbarn, just like the real-life Bunnings has.

Nitpick: Note the weird Hammerbarn point-of-sale terminal / computer, the keyboard has a space bar on the number row, and the number keys only go one through seven. Also: gift cards.

By the checkouts, there is a storage rack holding small and medium-sized boxes for reuse (to take purchases home in, instead of plastic bags). This is handy; boxes like this are also very useful if you’re moving.

Big stores always have loads of boxes from suppliers; they could just be bundled for recycling but letting the public use them is nice.

Here in Canada, some supermarkets do this.

Note also: reusable bags for sale

Toy Mascots

Looks like Hammerbarn has a beaver in a work apron for a mascot. Bunnings has a bear-in-a-work-apron mascot, Home Depot in North America also has a mascot sporting a work apron (Homer D. Poe), and in Canada we used to have a chain called Beaver Lumber, and they had a beaver-in-overalls mascot named Joe Beaver.

#Bluey Hammerbarn details #Hammerbarn #Bluey corporate mascots #Bluey

[belovedhomo]

1 and 24 for the book ask!! :D

Thank you! I track these things obsessively. I've read 28 full length books! And I've DNF'd 12 books.

thanks for asking!

Here's a list of both:

Read (bold = favorite)

Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen

Negative Space - BR Yeager

The House in Abigail Lane - Kealan Patrick Burke

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Different Seasons - Stephen King

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon

Found: An Anthology of Found Footage

Scanlines - Todd Keisling

This is Where We Talk Things Out - Caitlin Marceau

The World Cannot Give - Tara Isabella Burton

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Fluids - May Leitz

The Elementals - Michael McDowell

Educated - Tara Westover

Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Psychic Teenage Bloodbath - Carl John Lee

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (reread)

Mister Magic - Kiersten White

The Last Days of Jack Sparks - Jason Arnopp

The Bayou - Arden Powell

The Iliad - Homer

Helpmeet - Naben Ruthnum

The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie

Intercepts - TJ Payne

and i'm hoping to finish at least 5 more books, but we shall see! (Les Mis, The Once Yellow House, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Penance, and Pet Sematary)

as for DNFs;

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss: Too tedious even for me

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay: I feel there's more up to date feminist literature to read

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Catherine Lacey: as a Mexican, the way she talked about death and corpses left a bad taste in my mouth.

Kentukis - Samanta Schwelbin (Little Eyes in the translation): Gave up on this author, the stories went nowhere at all.

Heaven - Mieko Kawakami: I felt this book was going to leave me with nothing

Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel: This is just the set up for something very NGE and I didn't wanna commit to a saga

Anybody Home? by Michael J Seidlinger: Tries too hard

Ugly Girls - Lindsay Hunter: Wouldn't give me what i was craving atm

The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie: Too infodumpy

Brutes - Dizz Tate: Wasn't providing what I needed

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers: cringe

Stolen Tongues - Felix Blackwell: A creepypasta turned book that extends too much, weird treatment of Native American characters.

#inbox

[umbralrosa]

Yes that is all of Berserk that is physically available right now

Yes that is all of Tokyo Ghoul manga

Yes that is all of The Girl From The Other Side

Yes that is all of Lord of The Rings/Hobbit book series plus movies

Yes that is also all of the Witcher books

Featuring H.P. Lovecraft’s 70+ stories in one book including Edgar Allan Poe’s collective work also in one book

I have honorable mentions of Itachi’s stories, Nier Automata’s stories, Howl’s Moving Castle (to go with the Ghibli movie of course), Homer’s The Iliad and Odyssey in one book, Dante’s Inferno, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and Paradise Lost. I am also currently working on Vampire Hunter D’s omnibuses

The extras are just a bunch of informative shit but yeah… I’ve been. Stress collecting

#玫Out Of Roses [OOC]

[diagnosed-anxiety-disorder]

reading list for myself

i have so many books i havent read and so imma make a list of the ones i wanna read so i end up reading them - cr = currently reading - oh = on hold - ill cross off the books when i finish!

• The Great Gatsby (cr) • The Picture of Dorian Grey (oh) • Crime and Punishment • The Essential Homer • The Odyssey • Dracula • Hamlet • Les Miserables • Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (or any Dan Brown book D: ) • literally any Michael Crichton book i have too many of them i havent read

books i need to get

i prefer physical copies rather than reading online since i like annotating and having the book to put on my bookshelf :D im aware most of the books i want are in the public domain and therefore free on ibooks but ya know, i like having the book ;-;

• Metamorphoses by Ovid • The Illiad • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka • The Count of Monte Cristo • Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

IM ALSO TAKING BOOK SUGGESTIONS!!

#reading list #bookshelf #book list #my bookshelf

[old-cemetery]

fave books :D (in no particular order!)

I’m a slut for the ancient and american classics, horror, black comedy, satire, and the Sad Guy Plays

Party Monster - James St. James

Death of a salesman - Arthur Miller

On cats - Charles Bukowski

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Candide - Voltaire

Democracy in America - Tocqueville

Black Cat - Edgar Allen Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe

Masque of the Red Death - Poe

Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury

Where the sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

War of the Worlds - H.G Wells

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

The Daemon - Shirley Jackson

Monsters of Morley Manor - Bruce Coville

Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Catcher in the Rye - J. D Salinger

WTNV - Joeseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Macbeth - Shakespeare

King Lear - Shakespeare

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

Penderwick Series - Jeanne Birdsall

Darius the great is not ok - Adib Khorram

The Mafia - Nigel and Colin Cawthorne

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Tool

Wiseguy- Nicolas Pileggi

The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O’Neil

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Martian - Andy Weir

Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Coriolanus - Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius

The Iliad - Homer

The Aeneid - Virgil

The Georgics - Virgil

King Lear - Shakespeare

The Institute - Stephen King

Re-Animator - H.P. Lovecraft

Long Days Journey into Night - Eugene O Neil

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard

#Booker #book recs #book list #books

[mirclealignr]

Dark Academia Reading List ;

Emma - Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brönte

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brönte

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Maurice - E. M. Forster

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The Odyssey - Homer

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

1984 - George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Dark Academia Poetry ;

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (my favourites are 71, 116 and 130)

Edgar Allen Poe

Oscar Wilde

Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning

When We Two Parted - Lord Byron

Ozymandias- Percy Shelley

My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy

London - William Blake

Dark Academia Plays / Musicals ;

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Othello - Shakespeare

Hamlet - Shakespeare

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Finding Neverland - Allan Knee

An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

Anastasia - Terrence McNally

Dark Academia Movie List ;

Maurice (1987)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Wilde (1997)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Donnie Darko (2001)

The Pianist (2002)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Jane Eyre (2006)

Northanger Abbey (2007)

Atonement (2007)

The Edge of Love (2008)

Nowhere Boy (2009)

The King’s Speech (2010)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

The Imitation Game (2014)

Mary Shelley (2018)

Collette (2019)

Tolkien (2019)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Dark Academia TV Shows ;

Sherlock (2010-2017)

Gran Hotel (2011-2013)

Reign (2013-2017)

Peaky Blinders (2013- ?)

How To Get Away With Murder (2014-2020)

Outlander (2014 - ?)

Poldark (2015-2019)

Victoria (2016-2019)

Charité (2017)

Dark (2017-2020)

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020)

The Alienist (2018 - ?)

Servant (2019 - ?)

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Dark Academia Music Artists ;

here’s my playlist!

Vivaldi

Mozart

Beethoven

Chopin

Tchaikovsky

Schubert

Debussy

Sleeping At Last

Lord Huron

Hozier

Gregory Alan Isakov

Harry Styles

Hans Zimmer

Queen

Billie Marten

#dark academia #dark academia movies #dark academia tv #dark academia music #dark academia playlist #dark academia poetry #dark academia aesthetic #THESE ARE JUST MY OPINIONS #navigation

[bansheesofinisherin2022]

literally if i were a publisher i would always release collections of famous authors as a weird pun that makes u want to destroy the book with a giant bulldozer... “putting the POE in poetry - a poem collection of edgar allan poe’s finest work”, “the only D she wanted was in her name - Dickenson’s most homosexual work”, “Was already kafskaesque before it was cool - Franz Kafka’s complete work”, “Wilde you were still playing games, I was studying my books - Oscar Wilde’s complete work for people who like to call themselves bibliophiles unironically”, “You have no joyce but to read this - James Joyce’s Ulysses (unabridged)”, “Reading Aesop may make you feel at home, but he will make you feel at homer: Homer’s translated works” or sth painfully unfunny like that idk

#p #i'm trying to think of new puns #but these here are already horrible and not even one bit funny #so if i want to keep the last tiny bit of pride that i have left i should stop here

[literarypilgrim]

Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls” 

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse    41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber    51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn  73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy  108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky  109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers    121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III    131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss  134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland  135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg  136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo  137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres  139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote  140. Inferno by Dante 

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken  160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin  186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor  187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman  188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret  189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon  239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  240. Quattrocento by James Mckean 

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand  267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir  268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman  270. Selected Hotels of Europe 

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron  293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner  294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach  296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller  297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams  298. Stuart Little by E. B. White  299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway  300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare    311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields  320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#books in Gilmore Girls #reading list #booklr #have you read?

[rorygilmoreguide]

Rory Gilmore Book List:

- [ ] 1984 by George Orwell

- [ ] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

- [ ] Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

- [ ] The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

- [ ] An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

- [ ] Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

- [ ] Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

- [ ] Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

- [ ] Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

- [ ] The Art of Fiction by Henry James

- [ ] The Art of War by Sun Tzu

- [ ] As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

- [ ] Atonement by Ian McEwan

- [ ] Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

- [ ] The Awakening by Kate Chopin

- [ ] Babe by Dick King-Smith

- [ ] Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

- [ ] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

- [ ] Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

- [ ] The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

- [ ] Beloved by Toni Morrison

- [ ] Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

- [ ] The Bhagava Gita

- [ ] The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

- [ ] Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

- [ ] A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

- [ ] Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

- [ ] Brick Lane by Monica Ali

- [ ] Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

- [ ] Candide by Voltaire

- [ ] The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer - well some of it

- [ ] Carrie by Stephen King

- [ ] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

- [ ] The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

- [ ] Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

- [ ] The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

- [ ] Christine by Stephen King

- [ ] A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

- [ ] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

- [ ] The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

- [ ] The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty - some

- [ ] The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

- [ ] A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

- [ ] The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

- [ ] Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

- [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

- [ ] The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

- [ ] Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac

- [ ] Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- [ ] The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

- [ ] The Crucible by Arthur Miller

- [ ] Cujo by Stephen King

- [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

- [ ] Daisy Miller by Henry James

- [ ] Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

- [ ] David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

- [ ] David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

- [ ] Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

- [ ] Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

- [ ] Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

- [ ] Deenie by Judy Blume

- [ ] The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

- [ ] The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

- [ ] The Divine Comedy by Dante

- [ ] The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

- [ ] Don Quijote by Cervantes

- [ ] Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

- [ ] Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

- [ ] Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - again some

- [ ] Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

- [ ] The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

- [ ] Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

- [ ] Eloise by Kay Thompson

- [ ] Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

- [ ] Emma by Jane Austen

- [ ] Empire Falls by Richard Russo

- [ ] Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

- [ ] Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

- [ ] Ethics by Spinoza

- [ ] Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

- [ ] Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

- [ ] Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

- [ ] Extravagance by Gary Krist

- [ ] Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

- [ ] Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

- [ ] The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

- [ ] Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

- [ ] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

- [ ] The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

- [ ] Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

- [ ] The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

- [ ] Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

- [ ] Fletch by Gregory McDonald

- [ ] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

- [ ] The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

- [ ] The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

- [ ] Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - never finished

- [ ] Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

- [ ] Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

- [ ] Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

- [ ] Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

- [ ] George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

- [ ] Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

- [ ] Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

- [ ] The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

- [ ] The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

- [ ] The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – started and not finished

- [ ] Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

- [ ] Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

- [ ] The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

- [ ] The Gospel According to Judy Bloom -  this isn’t a real book!

- [ ] The Graduate by Charles Webb

- [ ] The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

- [ ] The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- [ ] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Group by Mary McCarthy

- [ ] Hamlet by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

- [ ] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

- [ ] A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

- [ ] Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

- [ ] Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

- [ ] Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Henry V by William Shakespeare

- [ ] High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

- [ ] The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

- [ ] Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

- [ ] The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

- [ ] House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)

- [ ] The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

- [ ] How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

- [ ] How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

- [ ] How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland

- [ ] Howl by Allen Gingsburg

- [ ] The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

- [ ] The Iliad by Homer

- [ ] I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres

- [ ] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

- [ ] Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

- [ ] Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

- [ ] It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton

- [ ] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

- [ ] The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

- [ ] Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

- [ ] The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

- [ ] The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

- [ ] Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

- [ ] The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

- [ ] The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

- [ ] Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

- [ ] The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

- [ ] Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

- [ ] The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

- [ ] Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

- [ ] Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

- [ ] Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

- [ ] Life of Pi by Yann Martel

- [ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

- [ ] Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

- [ ] The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

- [ ] Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

- [ ] Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

- [ ] Lord of the Flies by William Golding

- [ ] The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

- [ ] The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

- [ ] The Love Story by Erich Segal

- [ ] Macbeth by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

- [ ] The Manticore by Robertson Davies

- [ ] Marathon Man by William Goldman

- [ ] The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

- [ ] Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

- [ ] Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

- [ ] Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

- [ ] The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

- [ ] Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

- [ ] The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare

- [ ] The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

- [ ] Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

- [ ] The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

- [ ] Moby Dick by Herman Melville

- [ ] The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

- [ ] Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

- [ ] A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

- [ ] Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

- [ ] A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

- [ ] A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

- [ ] Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

- [ ] Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

- [ ] My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

- [ ] My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

- [ ] My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

- [ ] My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

- [ ] The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

- [ ] The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

- [ ] The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

- [ ] The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

- [ ] Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

- [ ] New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

- [ ] The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

- [ ] Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

- [ ] Night by Elie Wiesel

- [ ] Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

- [ ] The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

- [ ] Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

- [ ] Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

- [ ] Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

- [ ] Old School by Tobias Wolff

- [ ] Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

- [ ] On the Road by Jack Kerouac

- [ ] One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

- [ ] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

- [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

- [ ] The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

- [ ] Oracle Night by Paul Auster

- [ ] Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

- [ ] Othello by Shakespeare

- [ ] Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

- [ ] Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

- [ ] The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

- [ ] A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

- [ ] The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

- [ ] The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

- [ ] Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

- [ ] The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

- [ ] Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

- [ ] Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

- [ ] Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

- [ ] The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

- [ ] The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

- [ ] The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

- [ ] The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

- [ ] Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

- [ ] Property by Valerie Martin

- [ ] Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

- [ ] Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

- [ ] Quattrocento by James Mckean

- [ ] A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

- [ ] Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

- [ ] The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

- [ ] The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

- [ ] Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

- [ ] Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

- [ ] Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

[grandhotelabyss]

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. The poet has a new thought: he has a whole new experience to unfold; he will tell us how it was with him, and all men will be the richer in his fortune. For, the experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet. I remember, when I was young, how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He had left his work, and gone rambling none knew whither, and had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told: he could tell nothing but that all was changed,—man, beast, heaven, earth, and sea. How gladly we listened! how credulous! Society seemed to be compromised. We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars. Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before, or was much farther than that. Rome,—what was Rome? Plutarch and Shakspeare were in the yellow leaf, and Homer no more should be heard of. 

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”

“Homer no more should be heard of”—that sounds familiar. The modern canon is not fixed ’gainst self-slaughter. Further reading: my essay on Robert D. Richardson’s First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, which traces most features of contemporary writing pedagogy and practice—write what you know, process not product, etc.—to the sage of Concord; the alternative to the Emerson-to-Gorman anti-lineage is not traditionalism, which doesn’t and can’t exist amid America’s permanent revolution, but rather formalism, exemplified in Edgar Allan Poe, as I suggest in my essay on The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. 

#ralph waldo emerson #rupi kuar #amanda gorman #edgar allan poe #literature #american literature #poetry #literary criticism #literary theory

[avonweary]

| 100 books in a year challenge |

I thought I’d give myself a challenge this year and attempt to read 100 books over 365 days. I’ll be posting every time I start a book, and a review/update whenever I finish one. 

Here’s the list of my 100 books (with the last 20 being kept for whatever I feel like reading at the moment):

 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

Anne of Windy Poplars - L. M. Montgomery

Anne’s House of Dreams -  L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Ingleside -  L. M. Montgomery

Rainbow Valley -  L. M. Montgomery

Rilla of Ingleside -  L. M. Montgomery

Chronicles of Avonlea/Further Chronicles of Avonlea -  L. M. Montgomery

Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

Pet Sematary - Stephen King

Where the Past Begins - Amy Tan

Draft No. 4 - John McPhee

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott

Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Jazz - Toni Morrison

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Hollow City -  Ransom Riggs

Library of Souls - Ransom Riggs

Into The Wild (Warriors) - Erin Hunter

Fire and Ice (Warriors) - Erin Hunter

Forest of Secrets (Warriors) - Erin Hunter

Rising Storm (Warriors) -  Erin Hunter

A Dangerous Path (Warriors) - Erin Hunter

The Darkest Hour (Warriors) - Erin Hunter

The Odyssey - Homer

The Iliad - Homer

1984 - George Orwell

Lord of the Flies -  William Golding

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Emma - Jane Austen

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) - Rick Riordan

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) -  Rick Riordan

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) - Rick Riordan

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)-Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)-Rick Riordan

Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas Series) - Dean Koontz

Forever Odd (Odd Thomas Series)-Dean Koontz

Odd Hours (Odd Thomas Series)-Dean Koontz

Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas Series)-Dean Koontz

Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas Series)-Dean Koontz

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Inside the Shadow City (Kiki Strike Series) - Kirsten Miller

The Empress’s Tomb (Kiki Strike Series)-Kirsten Miller

The Darkness Dwellers (Kiki Strike Series)-Kirsten Miller

The Name of This Book Is Secret (The Secret Series) -  Pseudonymous Bosch

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (The Secret Series)- Pseudonymous Bosch

This Book is Not Good For You (The Secret Series)- Pseudonymous Bosch

This Isn’t What It Looks Like (The Secret Series)- Pseudonymous Bosch

You Have to Stop This (The Secret Series)- Pseudonymous Bosch

Bad Magic Series -  Pseudonymous Bosch

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

Erased Vol. 1 - Kei Sanbe

Akira Vol. 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo

Death Note Vol. 1 - Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note Vol. 2 -  Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note Vol. 3 -  Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note Vol. 4 -  Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note Vol. 5 -  Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note Vol. 6 -  Tsugumi Ohba

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

It’s a little ambitious lol, but I hope I can do it! Some of the books are ones I loved as a kid and want to read again, if some of them look like weird choices. Anyway, I’ll see you when I post my first update!

#bibliophile #booklover #book photography #bookworm #booknerd #reading #bookblr #book blog #bookish #book addict #tumblr reads #tumblreads #bookstagram #book porn #writing #books #publishing #writers #authors #book challenge #reading challenge #challenge #book review #currently reading #readersofinstagram #read in 2020 #cozy aesthetic #cozy #armchair #pages

[weirdletter]

Spectral Realms, No. 12, edited by S.T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press, Winter 2020. Cover painting  by Albert Joseph Pénot, info: hippocampuspress.com.

This twelfth issue of Hippocampus Press’s award-winning journal of weird poetry begins with David Barker’s affecting acrostic sonnet in memory of the late W.H. Pugmire. Contributions by other leading contemporary poets—Leigh Blackmore, Frank Coffman, Adam Bolivar, Benjamin Blake, Christina Sng, and many others—are scattered throughout the issue. We also find vivid and evocative prose poems by Maxwell I. Gold, Manuel Arenas, and Wade German. Thomas Tyrrell writes a poem in tribute of renowned fantaisiste Lord Dunsany; Don Webb evokes the shade of Edgar Allan Poe; Carl E Reed draws upon the work of Arthur Machen; and Manuel Pérez-Campos pays homage to the comic book Creepy. Nicole Cushing contributes a poem that fuses grimness and beauty, while Scott J. Couturier teases out the horrific potential of Greek myth. Two classic reprints—by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons—hint at the bountiful stores of weirdness in poetry of the turn of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. S.T. Joshi offers his assessment of Wade German’s recent poetry collection, while Donald Sidney-Fryer waxes eloquent about D.L. Myers’s long-awaited omnibus.

Poems: Acrostic Sonnet for Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire – David Barker Gray – M.F. Webb Pilgrim in the Mist – Wade German Proem to the Fortress Unvanquishable – Thomas Tyrrell Ode to the Great God Pan – Carl E. Reed Ghebulax – Maxwell I. Gold The Crimson Knight – Scott J. Couturier Haematophagy – Ashley Dioses Not All of Them Are Ghosts – Darrell Schweitzer Poe, on the Morning After – Don Webb Homage to Creepy – Manuel Pérez-Campos Xipe Totec – Deborah L. Davitt Necronomicon – Josh Maybrook Wretched Raft – Kieran Dacey Boylan Satanic Sonata – Manuel Arenas Time’s Vulture – Leigh Blackmore Urban Renewal – Mike Allen Graveside Ghost – Mary Krawczak Wilson No One Is Safe – Benjamin Blake Minoan Messages – Frank Coffman Madhouse Getaway – Manuel Pérez-Campos Planet Fetish – Chad Hensley Jack in Xanadu – Adam Bolivar Genesis – Holly Day I Want to Taste October – Ross Balcom A Tasty Treat – Adele Gardner Beyond the Fields – Andrew J. Wilson The Tears of Cerberus – Wade German A Witch in the House – Oliver Smith The Psychopomp – Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer The Plague Queen’s Song – Nicole Cushing I’ll Return in Late October – K.A. Opperman The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Horror – Carl E. Reed Black Wings Return – Michael D. Miller Slow the Night Grows Darker – David Sammons The Wild Hunt – Chelsea Arrington Lines Written in a Providence Churchyard – David Barker The God of the Winds – Christina Sng Singularity – Curtis M. Lawson Dream Hackers – Maxwell I. Gold The Bedlam Philharmonic – Steven Withrow The House (A Conduit) – Mack W. Mani The Pack – Scott J. Couturier Kiss of Life – Manuel Arenas The Last Golem – Allan Rozinski A Summoning of Demons – Michelle Jeffrey Astral Parasites – Manuel Pérez-Campos The Silent Silver Sea – Leigh Blackmore Homer Before the Trojan Court – Darrell Schweitzer The Witch’s Cat – Deborah L. Davitt In Arcadia – Josh Maybrook My Loveliest Manticore; or, The Queen of the Lamiae – Wade German The Conjuring – Frank Coffman Wildfires – Christina Sng Now and Forever – Kieran Dacey Boylan Stela of Selos – Scott J. Couturier Southern Gothic; or, Hillbilly Horror – Carl E. Reed The Egyptian Splendor – Ross Balcom Carrion Dreams – Maxwell I. Gold

Classic Reprints: In a Breton Cemetery – Ernest Dowson The Vampire – Arthur Symons

Reviews: A Golgotha of Horror – S.T. Joshi Dark Oracles Indeed – Donald Sidney-Fryer

Notes on Contributors

#book #magazine #poetry journal #weird poetry #fantastic poetry

[eaotheelf]

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Favorite colors: Black. I’m basic like that.

Favorite colors to WEAR: Black and dark colors. I try to get things that are brighter but they just end up in my closet indefinitely.

Last song listened to:  Haunted, by Poe

Favorite Musician/Singer: Poe, Semi Precious Weapons, Tenacious D, Really into American Murder Song right now and if you are at all into Repo!/Devil’s Carnival/Appalachian murder ballads you should check them out

Last film watched: Leila. It’s an Iranian film from 96, very good if you have the time and interest in a movie about a woman coping with her husband having to take a second wife.

Favorite TV show watched: Any who has talked to me for more than 10 minutes knows that I am absolutely obsessed with SNL.  Since I was born, I have been in front of the TV every Saturday night there is a new episode, though now with DVR if I am out of town I will watch later.

Favorite OC: Elphanse may get the most attention, but my absolute favorite OC is Baptistaux. He’s just such a sweet person and genuinely means well even if he is very, very dumb. I love him so much and each time I get to play him it is a joy.

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Spicy! I put hot sauce on my hot sauce.

Sparkling water, coffee, or Tea: I am again basic and love me La Croix, but I drink all of these to excess.

Pets: Two dogs and two aquariums full of fish. I am OBSESSED with my fish. Below is a picture of Oscar, my albino cory catfish, and Homer, my dwarf gourami.  I love them both with all of my heart and when they die, my soul will also die.

Tagging: Honestly anyone, I am late to the game. Please tag me back so I can read if you take this from me :)

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/h-d#tab-poems

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“Most brilliantly in “Eurydice“ (Egoist, May 1917) and “Helen,” H.D.’s myth poems in general give speech to the silent women of mythology, whose stories have been overwhelmingly told by a male literary and religious tradition. As Rachel Blau DuPlessispointed out, H.D.’s “Eurydice,” reverses the traditional lament of Orpheus for his lost love by presenting a defiant Eurydice who angrily condemns her husband: “So for your arrogance/and your ruthlessness/I have lost the earth/and the flowers of the earth.” As an answer to the representations of Helen in Homer, Poe, and Yeats, H.D.’s “Helen“ is an ominous poem about the paralyzing misogyny at the heart of male worship of woman’s beauty: “All Greece hates/the still eyes in the white face/ ... /could love indeed the maid,/ only if she were laid,/white ash amid funeral cypresses.” The highly encoded “Demeter” (Collected Poems) carries lesbian overtones in its suggestion that Demeter’s passionate kiss of Koré is greater in love than her rough rape by Hades. H.D.’s brilliantly erotic “Leda“ (Monthly Chapbooks, July 1919) reverses centuries of literary and artistic tradition, which usually features Zeus in the shape of a swan raping Leda. There is no rape or violence in H.D.’s poem, in which the red swan and the gold lily commingle in the gold-red sunset, “Where tide and river meet.” An objective correlative for Leda, the lily is an image whose traditional associations with female genitalia demonstrate how H.D.’s imagist craft was becoming inseparable from her revisionary stance toward mythology. These poems are important precursors for the reinterpretations of classical mythology common in the work of later women poets such as Muriel Rukeyser (who knew and admired H.D.), May Sarton (who also knew H.D.), Louise Bogan, Mona Van Duyn, Denise Levertov, Margaret Atwood, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Judy Grahn.”

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