#paul harding

[mirthofbooks]

Currently reading: historical fiction about one of the first racially integrated towns in the U.S., this one was also up for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2023

#booklr #currently reading #books #this other Eden #Paul Harding

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Paul Harding #Enon #quote #lit #books #words

[wellesleybooks]

The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced! Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The covers shown are the British editions. We have copies of all the books that are available right now including: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Western Lane by Chetna Maroo This Other Eden by Paul Harding If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Prophet Song by Paul Lynch will be published 12/23

#booker prize #shortlist #paul murray #chetna maroo #paul harding #jonathan escoffery #paul lynch #ww norton #macmillian #atlantic monthly #farrar straus giroux #knopf canada #picador

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan by Paul Harding

Marvel in the 70s

#Hellstorm #Paul Harding

[ninasbookshelf]

recently purchased two new books on a spontaneous trip to barnes and noble

tinkers by paul harding

the flowers of buffoonery by osamu dazai

and i added five others to my wishlist lol 🤭

#booklr #bibliophile #book haul #Paul harding #osamu dazai

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in August:

1). This Other Eden (Paul Harding)

2). Pitch Dark (Renata Adler)

3). The Peppered Moth (Margaret Drabble)

4). Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood (ed. Abi Curtis)

5). Study for Obedience (Sarah Bernstein)

6). After Sappho (Selby Wynn Schwartz)

7). Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate (Daniel Mendelsohn)

8). Pearl (Siân Hughes)

9). Home (Toni Morrison)

10). Wandering Souls (Cecile Pin)

11). How to Build a Boat (Elaine Feeney)

12). Western Lane (Chetna Maroo)

13). Old God’s Time (Sebastian Barry)

#booklr #book list #my literary life #adult booklr #paul harding #renata adler #margaret drabble #abi curtis #sarah bernstein #selby wynn schwartz #daniel mendelsohn #siân hughes #toni morrison #cecile pin #elaine feeney #chetna maroo #sebastian barry #(read so much sitting in A&E for three days with a friend. nothing else to do - might as well channel all emotional responses into books)

[rughydrangea]

That's right; I am queer, from queer folk, queer stock. The very queerest. Here we are, stuck on an island, a hollow, a swamp, the desert, no sooner settled than banished again. You bet I'm queer. I'm no landlord nor lawyer, no duke nor lord of the looms. I'm no cap doffer, no knee bender, no flattering stooge. I draw no writs; I pass no judgments. I set no seals. I tip no scales. No, not me; I'm queer. I'm queer for my self, for my selfhood, queer for this queer self I find myself to be, queer with strange appetites, and a heart that throbs most queerly. I'm queer for other queers, queer for their shapes and colors and sizes, queer for their tastes. I'm queer for the ruthless sea. I'm queer for all the little queer creatures in the tide pools. I'm queer for the light when it breaks the horizon and queer for it when it sinks behind the trees. I'm plain queer for these people and queer for this world. I'm downright queer in love with this wreck of a world, queer in love with love itself--love's always queer, always arriving in our hearts from queer nowheres, queering everything--and there we are; wide awake all night, queer as queer can be; queer orphans, queer widows, queer boys, and queer girls; sorrel girls queer for ivory boys, daffodil boys queer for lilac girls; carmine girls queer for sable girls, cinnamon boys so very queer for boys of bluest milk.

Paul Harding, This Other Eden

#paul harding #this other eden #quote #i'm approaching the end of this book and not totally sure what to make of it #but harding is clearly a really talented writer #there are a few passages like this in the book that reach into soliloquy but this one stands out the most #mainly for the repetition #but i do think it's quite beautiful #the context is the eviction of a mixed-race community from their home--the queerness they're accused of is not only to do with sexuality #(though there are incest suspicions (and realities) in the air) #but mainly with them not conforming to how the state thinks its subjects should act

[dk-thrive]

Within 10 minutes, I was just like, that’s the life I want for my mind.

He signed up for a class at the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College, and it changed his life. “Marilynne Robinson walked into the room,” Harding said. “Within 10 minutes, I was just like, that’s the life I want for my mind. He was inspired by her approach to literature. “The level at which she was looking at language, the level at which she was thinking about art and history and theology and all that sort of stuff. It was just like recognizing something,” Harding said. “It’s truth and beauty. It was literally like, my brain is a filament, and I want to be lit like that.”

—  MJ Franklin, from “Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity” (NY Times Book Review, January 22, 2023)

#MJ Franklin #Paul Harding #Marilynne Robinson

[graphicpolicy]

Diamond Select Toys in Stores Now: X-Men, Clone Wars, The Mandalorian and More!

Diamond Select Toys in Stores Now: X-Men, Clone Wars, The Mandalorian and More! #xmen #starwars

Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Never fear! Five new items just hit comic stores courtesy of Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant LTD, perfect for the people on your post-holiday shopping list, especially you! One is from Marvel, four are from Star Wars, and all five are awesome. Marvel Animated X-Men Storm 1/7 Scale Mini-Bust A Diamond Select Toys release! By the Goddess! The hit…

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#barry bradfield #diamond select toys #gentle giant ltd. #marvel #paul harding #star wars #star wars: a new hope #star wars: rogue one #star wars: the clone wars #star wars: the mandalorian #x-men #x-men: the animated series

[intellectures]

Ein Haus in Flammen

Paul Murrays Familien-Epos erzählt von einer Familie, die unter dem Druck der zahlreichen Krisen und der Vergangenheit in sich zusammenfällt. »Der Stich der Biene« stand im vergangenen Jahr auf der Shortlist des Booker Prize und gehört zu den mitreißendsten Lektüren des Frühjahrs. Continue reading Ein Haus in Flammen

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#Bret Easton Ellis #featured #Gary Shteyngart #Leïla Slimani #Paul Harding #Paul Lynch #Paul Murray #Wolfgang Müller

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Paul Harding #Enon #quote #lit #books #words

[kammartinez]

#books #writing #this other eden #paul harding

[kamreadsandrecs]

#books #writing #this other eden #paul harding

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Moondragon by Paul Harding

Marvel in the 70s

#Moondragon #Paul Harding

[anokatony]

My Favorite Fiction I've Read in 2023

Another year. Here are my favorite fiction reads of 2023, and as always, fiction is all that really counts.     ‘Glassworks’ by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith – ‘Glassworks’ is an intriguing and endlessly fascinating quirky family saga with one family member of each of four generations involved with working with glass in one form or another. The situations that Olivia Wolfgang-Smith creates for her…

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#Alba de Cepedes #Benjamin Labatut #Daniel Mason #Donal Ryan #Elizabeth von Arnim #Georgi Gospdinov #Gwendoline Riley #Olivia Wolfgang-Smith #Paul Harding #Paul Murray #Pilar Quintana #Stephen Wright

[lilianeruyters]

My winner is ...

Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 Tonight the judges will reveal the Booker Prize winner of 2023. I am curious to find out which novel they prefer, whether their choice will coincide with mine. Experience over the past few years has shown we tend to differ in our opinions. This year I had one definite ‘yes’, one ‘would be nice’, two ‘well allright I am not complaining’ and two definiti ‘no’s. To…

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#reading is fun #American literature #Booker Prize #Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 #British writer #Chetna Maroo #Great Novel #Great reading #If I Survive You #Irish literature #Irish writer #Jonathan Escoffery #literature #Paul Harding #Paul Lynch #Paul Murray #Prophet Song #Sarah Bernstein #Study for Obedience #The Bee Sting #This Other Eden #Western Lane