Here are my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin books for February, and boy are they a morbid combination! February has been historically a not good month for me, so that's fitting.
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Here are my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin books for February, and boy are they a morbid combination! February has been historically a not good month for me, so that's fitting.
pickMy first ever Sylvia Plath book! Inherited from my grandmother.
Emotional and resonant, full of grief. Definitely going to be a revisit, and moving The Bell Jar up my TBR. #TheSealeyChallenge 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Side note, but does anybody know if Peter S Beagle was inspired by The Bull of Bendylaw? It made me immediately picture the Red Bull. https://hellopoetry.com/poem/702/the-bull-of-bendylaw/
#bookhaul - Hay-on-Wye
Top 3 are daughters.
The tagged one is a US first edition and blew a lot of the budget!
Fire Rush is signed and with badges 😁
I‘m still smiling- such a lovely place.
#blue #poetrymatters
Excuse the bad photo! Just too tired to go and take it again! This one not actually from Ariel 😁 it‘s still beautiful though.
pickNot even sure if I can ever consider this fully read. It‘s one I will have to revisit as I learn more about Plath‘s life, as my own self and mental health may develop, and just one I will have to revisit to discern all hidden in beautifully woven words. Truly a lot of talent lost too young.
Sylvia had a way of writing that causes the reader to feel her words deeply, as if her lore could penetrate one's bones.
pickI finally read The Bell Jar & loved it so much I read this volume of poetry.
Like all poetry, what you love, you love. What doesn‘t resonate with you... 🤷🏻♀️
It‘s helpful to know when in the poet‘s life these were collected. I don‘t know enough about Plath yet to fully appreciate all these poems.
Of particular enjoyment, though, were:
The Eye-mote
Faun
Lorelei
The Ghost‘s Leavetaking
Spinster
I tried using the first line to announce my last pregnancy on Facebook. No one got it. 🤷
#nine #novemberbythenumbers @JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads
I was tagged for my #top10authors I don‘t remember who tagged me, it‘s one of those mornings. These are in no particular order really. Edit: it was @Texreader who tagged me
"the sun rises under the pillar of your tongue. my hours are married to shadow."
