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bookstagramofmine · 6 months

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you'd be so much more handsome if you'd get an exorcism

Megan Fox

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livinginsideabookshelf · 1 year

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The Twenty Book Challenge

If you could only keep 20 books (physical/ebook/audio), which would be the ones you would keep?

Rules are simple: 1 book per author. 1 book per series

Tagged by the lovely @thecasualbookreviewer thank you :))

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togetherbehindfourwalls · 3 years

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From a book review of Together Behind Four Walls available via Goldcrest Books cost £11.99 https://www.goldcrestbooks.com/together-behind-four-walls/

Review The past couple of years have been stressful for all of us and reading about other people, their struggles and experiences makes the entire process a bit more real and easy to cope with. Having written a collection of poems myself, I was excited to read this book.

The contributions by people and their personal stories is very touching and heart warming. My favourite poem was “Then and now”.

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bookstagramofmine · 2 years

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Mary Oliver

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bookstagramofmine · 7 months

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The Cat From the Kimono by Nancy Peña

Our story begins in Japan, where a young woman, the daughter of a silk mill owner, adores her crimson kimono adorned with soft, purring black cats. However, when the weaver’s love for the maiden goes unreciprocated, jealousy leads to the woman's demise and the escape of one of the black cats.

What follows is an adventure that takes the black cat on a journey across the world. The cat's path often intersects with Sherlock Holmes and Alice (you know whom I'm talking about), adding a delightful and dark twist. As the cat becomes a figure of folklore and legend, readers are transported into a world where the line between reality and imagination blurs, much like the intricate patterns of a kimono.

The book is dark; it really is. The beauty comes from Nancy Peña’s illustrations, especially when talking about the Japanese tale. And one should really be sure to read the trigger warnings before getting into it, especially when it comes to the drug use. Sherlock Holmes uses cocaine quite openly in the book, and Watson has to forcibly stop him when he hallucinates (which may just be the cat messing with him) that the cat is changing shape and smiling at him. Alice eats a mushroom and goes on an adventure with the cat with her neck becoming long and thin, quite like that of a snake. There is also a small allusion to the tale of the Prophet Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale (although the cats response to this is its own).

The graphic novel is one worth reading and collecting. In an age where I've personally become a bit bored of really ugly or HD graphic novels, this one was a welcome change. At 105 pages it's also quite a short read, that can serve as a welcome break from the drudgery of life.

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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Taken from Fine Print by Stjepan Sejic

Honestly, the graphic novel was so pretty. I’ve stopped reading a lot of them on comixology but I’m always struck by how beautiful the art is.

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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Don’t fall in love with hope—it can be insatiable

Iphigenia among the Taurians

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bookstagramofmine · 9 months

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The truth of the matter is this; I have paid attention to your every move to the extent I know what the next one will be.

There is no point in telling you that your absence still hurts and I can predict it and I kick myself for assuming this time will be the last.

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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The fraud squad is out and I’m so happy!

I’ve been looking forward to the book for some time and now I have it!

I’ll be a bit mad if it doesn’t live up to my expectations!

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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Love love love this poetry anthology

It’s brought me so much peace

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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The Trojan Women by Anne Carson

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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The city is in conflagration and the very beaches roar, like women’s voices, for their husbands, their children, their mothers, lost.

I The Trojan Women by Anne Carson

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bookstagramofmine · 2 years

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Things I Want Decided by Izumi Shikibu (translated by Jane Hirshfield)

‘Which is better,

the distant lover

you long for

or the one you see daily

without desire?

As I was reading this I sort of answered the question in my own head. I would much rather have the person I love far from me, than not have them at all. I want them close at all times, but if I couldn’t have them near, I wouldn’t pick a convenient option.

I know that this poem is also a spiritual verse (literally taken from the penguin book of spiritual verse by Kaveh Akhbar, which I highly highly recommend), and it’s about a persons relationship with God. And I think it's beautiful to love Him that way too. Or to try and understand the relationship that many of us have with Him in these terms. It's also a way of thinking about how we pick other things to worship, especially money and power because a relationship with them seems to be attainable.