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Oh, Shanny! It’s so strange to receive a message from you —if you’ll allow me to fangirl for a minute, you were one of the first blogs I followed on here and I’ve always loved your biting, realistic yet hazily poetical approach to, well, life. So, here’s to you to begin with.

Now for books that really touched my heart, in appalling disorder :

In fiction—The Name of the Rose, Umberto EcoThe Catcher in the Rye, J. D. SalingerHouse of Leaves, Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Book of my Mother, Albert CohenRebecca, Daphné du MaurierThe Bloody Chamber, Angela CarterThe Brothers Karamazov, DostoyevskyAnna Karenina, TolstoyMiddlemarch, George EliotThe Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

In poetry—The Autobiography of a Goddess, Andal (tr. by Priya Sarukkai Chabria)If Not, Winter, Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)The Glass Essay, Anne CarsonAverno, Louise GlückAriel, Sylvia PlathCrush, Richard SikenThe Complete Poems, Emily DickinsonLove Poems, e. e. cummingsMemorial, Alice OswaldSonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. by Martyn Crucefix)

In drama—Elektra, Sophokles (tr. by Anne Carson)Bakkhai, Euripides (tr. by Anne Carson)Romeo and Juliet, ShakespearePelleas and Melisande, Maurice MaeterlinckBerenice, Jean RacineEndgame, Samuel BeckettThe Tempest, William ShakespeareThe Maids, Jean Genet

hi there love! thank you for the compliment (: these are some favorites/some things i’ve been reading lately

poetry:

(currently)crush by richard sikenthe wild iris by louise gluck(always)the sea and the bells by pablo nerudaamerican primitive by mary olivermorning in the burned house by margaret atwoodquestions of travel by elizabeth bishopselected poems of anne sexton, anne sextontwenty love poems and a song of despair by pablo nerudathe poetry of derek walcott, derek walcottblood, tin, straw by sharon oldsthe shadow of sirius by w.s. merwinthe waste land and other poems by t.s. eliotcollected poems by edna st vincent millayplainwater by anne carsonwhy i wake early by mary oliver

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