#justclassiclitthings

"The World of Pooh," by A.A. Milne

the air smells like calamity and wine. she sits, weeping about a charcoal smudge, her eyes ablaze, she's trying to define the selfish art she often tried to judge. her fingers, shaking, ignite a bonfire. cigarette turns pensively aglow. you see her fervent mind is filled with shame; that wandering soul turned false so long ago. today, you hold her, through her vanity. lungs turn to ash and hearts become fool's gold, and you must help to keep humanity; protect wildflowers from persistent cold. with broken heart, she tried to medicate; in modern, tragic fashion, she found fate.

THE RESULTS ARE IN! After much deliberation and review of over 100 submissions, I have chosen these books as the just-classic-lit-things official summer reading list. The books are: 1. 'Unnatural Creatures', short stories collected by Neil Gaiman 2. 'Siddhartha', by Herman Hesse 3. 'Rebecca', by Daphne Du Maurier 4. 'Her Fearful Symmetry', by Audrey Niffenegger 5. 'Don't Think of an Elephant!', by George Lakoff 6. 'The Glass Castle', by Jeanette Walls 7. 'Possession', by A.S. Byatt 8. 'The Importance of Being Earnest', by Oscar Wilde 9. 'Bad Science', by Ben Goldacre 10. 'Labyrinths', by Jorge Luis Borges 11. 'Watchmen', by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 12. 'Oedipus Rex', by Sophocles 13. 'Paris', by Edward Ruthafurd 14. 'Catch 22', by Joseph Heller 15. 'An Invisible Thread', by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski 16. 'Angels in America', by Tony Kusher 17. 'Pale Fire', by Vladimir Nabokov 18. 'More Than This', by Patrick Ness 19. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', by Maya Angelou 20. 'Loves Labour's Lost', by William Shakespeare Thank you so much for your lovely thoughts on these books! Tell me if you're reading some or all of this list with me so we can discuss the texts. Love you all, bookworms! Happy Reading!