Tam Lin | Litsy

wildeyedsapphic

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

🥀 I forbid ye maidens all / who let fly their lovely hair / to go down to Carterhaugh / for young Tam Lin is there 🥀

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willaful

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

I'm hoping at some point I will irritate someone enough they'll tell me how to make the covers tilt. 😂 #ThingsInCommon

A reread for me and I still love it so much. I particularly love having taken the time to reread a chunkster and not think about the number of books I might have been reading in that time. Quality over quantity for the win!

willaful @faranae This is my “book based on oral tradition“ #URC2023 entry. (edited) 2y

Faranae Oooo, good choice for that prompt!

Also, I am not irritated at all; I firmly believe you should precisely as much time as you want to into social graphics, which might be 0 minutes and results in untilted covers. Since you want to know, though: if you're on canva on a computer, left click the cover and to one side (usually the right), a little rotation button will turn up, two arrows pointing in a circle. Left click that to rotate. 2y

willaful I have found the rotation button but it never seems to do anything. 🧐 I'll have to experiment. 2y

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merelybookish

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

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My love & appreciation for this re-telling of the Scottish ballad Tam Lin set at a Midwestern liberal arts college in the 1970s deepens each time I re-read it. If you ever romanticize/feel nostalgia for the university life, this book is for you! It describes a lost & rarified version of the life of an English major. A meaty, magical read, perfect for autumn! Expect I'll get a craving to read it again in a few years! #192025 @Librarybelle

sarahbarnes I‘ve never read this, but based on your description I really need to! Sounds like my kind of book. 2y

batsy 💕 @sarahbarnes It's one of my favourites. I hope you give it a try! 2y

sarahbarnes @batsy with recommendations from you both, I am definitely going to! 2y

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LeahBergen Well, I‘m intrigued! 2y

merelybookish @sarahbarnes Definitely worth a try! Especially since you attended a Midwestern liberal arts college! 😀 2y

merelybookish @batsy It just keeps getting better. Also, it's funny to me how much I forget between each reading! 🙃 2y

merelybookish @LeahBergen Try it! I would love to hear what you think! 2y

Librarybelle Wonderful review!! 2y

rubyslippersreads This has been on my TBR list for ages. With all these glowing recommendations, I‘ll have to move it up the list. 2y

merelybookish @rubyslippersreads It's a really fun read! 2y

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merelybookish

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Grey October day and I've dug out an old comfort read. (Also look at my gorgeous rust-coloured mums that *just* bloomed and will probably be zapped by frost next week.)

AmyG Your view is lovely. 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 🧡🤎 2y

batsy I've said it so many times now, but I adore this book! 😆 Beautiful view (as always) and flowers. 2y

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merelybookish @AmyG @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It makes country living worth it. 2y

merelybookish @batsy I almost tagged you! 😅 I love this book too! And I usually dislike fairy take retellings. 2y

Centique Those flowers! My mother would always choose those colours for her pots - just lovely. Also I have this book on my TBR and must get to it! 2y

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snapsnarlgrowl

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Finished my Tam Lin reread, and now to find a nice book to balance it.

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ravenlee

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Thank you @BeaG ! I love it! Merry Christmas to all!
#jolabokaflodswap @MaleficentBookDragon Thanks to Chelle for organizing my favorite swap of the year!

Clare-Dragonfly I love Tam Lin! 😍😍😍 4y

S3V3N You‘re welcome! Enjoy! 4y

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merelybookish

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

🙊🙉🙈...lalalalalala...comfort read...🙊🙉🙈

batsy I wanted to reread this ahead of Halloween but life was nuts and now it's November. (How?!) I hope it's doing the job of helping you temporarily escape! 4y

mklong I‘m doing the same with the Nevermoor YA series 🙈🙉🙊 4y

Lcsmcat Pretty cover! 4y

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AllisonM89 I love this book so so much!! 4y

merelybookish @batsy Thanks! I did pretty well avoiding media yesterday but much harder today. 4y

merelybookish @mklong I love that series. Need to read book 3! 4y

merelybookish @Lcsmcat Pretty even on my ratty used copy. 🙂 4y

merelybookish @AllisonM89 Have you read it more than once? It seems to inspire rereads! 4y

AllisonM89 @merelybookish not yet! Just discovered it a few months back 4y

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AllisonM89

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Diagonal Bingo!
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4y

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AllisonM89

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What a strange book! A nostalgic, romanticized college experience with the ballad of Tam Lin superimposed on the story. A good Autumn read.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
Square 13 ✔️
Bingo! (Top left to bottom right)

#awesomeaugust @Andrew65
Book 4/5
Going to say that's a wrap for the readathon. I have no intention of finishing another book between today and tomorrow!

TheAromaofBooks I've never read this one, but it is on the list! 4y

AllisonM89 @TheAromaofBooks Heads up: the obvious tie-ins to the ballad don't happen until the last 50 pages or so.. That was quite the surprise... 4y

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4y

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AllisonM89

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

It's interesting to see the varied reviews between here and goodreads. I love the ballad Tam Lin, but right now, this book isn't at all what i expected. Ill try to get a bit further through before passing judgement on this one

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merelybookish

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

1. A few, here and there. 😉
2. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94
Want to play @moll @AllisonM89 @mollyrotondo @Lesanne

MoonWitch94 You‘re welcome 😊 🌸🎉📚 5y

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 😊🤩📚👍 5y

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saresmoore

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I enjoyed this immensely. I avoided all spoilers, including the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin, itself, so now I already want to go back and reread to see what I missed. I‘m a sucker for this setting: the faerie land that is a top, small liberal arts college in the U.S. and I think I got a pretty good education during my time at Blackstock. I loved the story, the characters, the angst, and the incessant quoting of classic literature.

batsy I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed it! ❤️ 5y

saresmoore @batsy I liked your point about the lack of screen damage. Even by the time I was in college, we had all been raised by television and dial-up web access. This was so refreshing! Also, I patted myself on the back every time I recognized a literary reference. 🙃 (It wasn‘t very often.) 5y

batsy @saresmoore I loved that aspect of it, too! Just the sheer devotion to literature that seems unimaginable now. I loved reading this while I was in college, because it was the time when I could say I'd at least heard of some of the references 😂 5y

Suet624 Ohhh, this was already stacked but now I really have to look for it. 5y

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saresmoore

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

For those who know me, the current state of my nightstand is a chaotic aberration from my organized norm.

But, if you look closely at the clues, you might discover why I‘ve become so untidy as of late.

Sea-bands & vitamin B-6 supplements for nausea; juice, empty banana peel, & cashews because cravings...

That‘s right, friends, my Eggo is preggo! New baby reader is due July 2020!

Now excuse me while I hibernate for the rest of winter.

saresmoore As an aside, thanks to @batsy for recommending Tam Lin. I‘m really looking forward to reading it! 5y

Grrlbrarian Congratulations & best wishes to you! 🎉 5y

vivastory How exciting! Congrats, friend!! 🎉🙌🎊 5y

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Owlizabeth Congrats!!! 5y

rubyslippersreads Congratulations! A brand-new Litten! 👶📚❤️ 5y

erinreads Congratulations! 💕 5y

Jas16 Congratulations!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 5y

erzascarletbookgasm Congratulations!! A little reader on the way! ❤️ 5y

bookishbitch Congratulations! 5y

xicanti Congratulations! 5y

AmyK1 Congratulations! 5y

marleed Congratulations. I just love Litsy babies!! 5y

Booksbymybed How awesome! Congratulations! 5y

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Christine What lovely news! Congrats! ❤️ 5y

sprainedbrain Congratulations!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 5y

Cinfhen Wonderful news 💕💕💕sending much love / How are the girls embracing this??? 5y

BookNAround Fantastic! Congratulations on your upcoming bundle of joy. 5y

mrp27 Congratulations!! 5y

Bookzombie Congratulations!!! 5y

Reggie How exciting!! Congrats and how do the girls feel? 5y

BarbaraBB Such great news dear Sara! I am happy for you 💜. The girls must be excited I suppose? 😘 5y

LeahBergen OMG!!!!! How wonderful!!! Congratulations! 😘😘😘😘😘 5y

arubabookwoman How exciting! Congratulations! 5y

batsy Oh my god!! That is so exciting! Congratulations, friend ❤️❤️❤️ 5y

Librarybelle Congratulations! 5y

saresmoore @Reggie @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen The girls are beyond excited! As far as they‘re concerned, I‘m having a baby just for them. 5y

saresmoore @batsy @LeahBergen Thank you, sweet friends! It‘s a welcome redemption for 2019, the year from hell. 😬 5y

Liz_M Fantastic, congrats! 5y

ValerieAndBooks What!! Congratulations, so exciting 😍!! 5y

youneverarrived Eee how exciting! Congratulations 😘😘 I‘m due the end of March so that‘s two little readers being welcomed to the world in 2020 ❤️❤️ 5y

Cinfhen Sara, So glad to hear the girls are thrilled 🤗🤗and congrats to you @youneverarrived 💕 5y

britt_brooke Awww! Exciting. Congratulations to your family! 5y

saresmoore @youneverarrived Yay!!! Wishing you health, peace, and strength in the coming months! 5y

youneverarrived Thank you @Cinfhen ❤️ and same to you Sara, hope you have a smooth pregnancy. 5y

MaureenMc Congratulations! 5y

Suet624 Sara!!!! How wonderful. I‘m so happy for you. 5y

emilyhaldi WOW congratulations!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 So exciting ☺️ 5y

janeycanuck Congrats! 5y

saresmoore @MicheleinPhilly It‘s still fresh! Baby‘s due in July! 5y

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aeeklund

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

I have been searching for this book—specifically this cover, specifically in hardcover—for so long. And then, out of the blue, after a truly terrible day, it was on the shelf of my local indie, used, pristine, for $7.99. I‘m not going to lie, I cried.

I love that books have the power to do that.

💜💜

batsy Oh, what a find! 🙌🏽 One of my favourites. 5y

Texreader Hope all continues to get better for you 5y

quirkyreader I read this in paperback years ago. From what I remember it‘s a good story. 5y

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batsy

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I #cherish this book & it has held up to several re-readings. It's basically my fantasy of academia. Set in the 1970s in a small liberal arts college, people genuinely quote Shakespeare & Pope & Aristophanes & Keats at each other & discuss books & art with the seriousness they deserve. It's the 70s, so no one suffers from screen damage. They genuinely REMEMBER quotes! To add to that, dark fairy lore & Scottish ballads. Perfect. #MOVember @Cinfhen

Cathythoughts This sounds good ... I‘m not into YA ... but I‘ve taken a screenshot as it may come in handy for #booked2020 👍😁... I hear the prompts are coming our way soon (edited) 5y

Cinfhen Did you get a sneak peek @Cathythoughts this book will definitely work for a #booked2020 prompt!!!!! 5y

Cinfhen Great photo and review @batsy 💚 5y

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Cathythoughts @Cinfhen No sneak peek 🙈. Glad I mentioned it now though (edited) 5y

Chrissyreadit I read this in the 80‘s, but sadly do not remember the story. 5y

batsy @Cathythoughts @Cinfhen LOL you two 😁 I've been doing buddy reads and no challenges this year but look forward to seeing the prompts unveiled! 5y

batsy @Cinfhen Thank you 😘 5y

batsy @Chrissyreadit The nice part is I always forget certain elements of the plot as well, so it's always a pleasure to rediscover particular aspects 🙂 5y

readordierachel Sold and #stacked 🧡 5y

Centique That sounds fantastic. Stacked! 5y

batsy @readordierachel @Centique 😁👍🏽 5y

Graywacke Intrigued... and, for what it‘s worth I‘ve never heard of this and would have glanced past the cover and title without a second thought without your review. But sounds really good... 5y

batsy @Graywacke It's a pretty terrible cover! 😆 There's another edition that's much prettier. The novel is very much in the fantasy vein, but I love it the most for the detailed and obsessive conversations about literature by the undergrads who think reading means something. A novel like that won't be written in 2019, I think. It'll be seen as quaint and way too nerdy! 5y

Graywacke @batsy a novel of its time. The fantasy implication of the cover turned me off. But after reading your review, which was of interest and did not leaveany sense of fantasy, I looked up more info. I‘m definitely interested. Onto the infinite list ...☺️ it‘s a big list...it goes. 5y

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batsy

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

I'm pretty late with this but I love the idea of a #weeklyforecast @Cinfhen 💜

🎃 I'm hoping to finish my reread of Tam Lin to coincide with Halloween & the end of October. I love this book 🥰

🎃 Need to finish Act 2 of King Lear for #ShakespeareReadAlong It's dense & complex & good!

🎃 Hoping to welcome November by taking a bite out of Dracula 🧛🏽‍♂️😬😂 My first time reading it & I'm looking forward! @erzascarletbookgasm @Sace @LapReader

Cinfhen Never too late to share your #WeeklyForecast 🧛‍♂️ 5y

rockpools Well that sounds fun! 5y

merelybookish I just ordered a copy of Tam Lin! Read it a few years ago and then purged it in a Kondo fit of tidying up. (I guess it didn't spark joy that day.) But have been wanting to re-read it lately, so purchased a new copy. 😬 5y

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Sace This will be my first time for Dracula too! 5y

batsy @Cinfhen 🙂 5y

batsy @RachelO I'm looking forward to this week of reading :) 5y

batsy @merelybookish I hope it sparks joy this time around! 😆 But I get that it's the kind of book that might drive some people nuts if they don't like the excessive talkiness about literature 😬 5y

batsy @Sace Yay! 🦇 5y

Cinfhen Hahahahaha @merelybookish glad you got your spark back ✨⚡️✨⚡️✨ 5y

merelybookish I did like it. But it didn't seem like a keeper that day...but I've been thinking about it for a while. 🤷 obviously Kondo's method doesn't work for wafflers like me. 5y

merelybookish @Cinfhen Thanks! 😀 5y

Earlene I am trying to finish Dracula before Halloween. First time reading it and I am enjoying it. 5y

batsy @merelybookish I'm too much of a waffler for the Kondo method, as well! That's probably why I need it the most but it's never going to work 😆 5y

batsy @Earlene I'm glad to hear that! I've been keen to read it for so long but didn't manage to fit it in for October. 5y

rubyslippersreads @batsy @merelybookish I‘ve had Tam Lin on my TBR for ages. Maybe in 2020. 5y

batsy @rubyslippersreads 😁🤞🏽 5y

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Clare-Dragonfly

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Book: Tam Lin
Author: Donna Tartt
TV: The Twilight Zone
Food: Tea

A week late again 😅

#manicmonday #lettert

JoScho

JoScho Better late than never 😊🖤 6y

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marineko

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I have two favourite books, and this is one of them. It's a retelling of the ballad Tam Lin and I love how it starts feeling just like a realistic novel about Janet in college (I will forever wish for a similar college experience; mine was nowhere near as fun) but when the fantastic elements appear it's as if it's been there all along and now we're just seeing another layer of the story.

#marinekolibrary #fantasy #youngadult

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batsy

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Thanks for the giveaway @mrozzz ! Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, an old fave that I never tire of. Something about the darkness, fall setting, & the 70s college vibes where English majors read & seriously discuss Shakespeare (no doubt this turns some of you off 😂). Wish I spent this much time reading Elizabethan poetry in uni instead of getting drunk with housemates & crawling up the stairs on all fours 😬 Anyway. ❤️ this book! #ClearTheShelvesGiveaway

readinginthedark This sounds amazing! 7y

batsy @readinginthedark It's so good! I'm trying to get people to read it 😁 7y

BarbaraBB Haha I wish that too when I think of my time at University 7y

batsy @BarbaraBB On the bright side we are model student readers now 😁 7y

BarbaraBB Definitely! 😀 7y

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aeeklund

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

Did I buy two different retellings of Tam Lin today? Yes. Yes, I did.

Do @RavenRenegade and I choose brunch locations based in part on proximities to bookstores? Yes. Yes, we do.

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Oh my! Fire and Hemlock in hardcover 🤤🤤🤤 7y

aeeklund @thegirlwiththelibrarybag It was only $4.99!! I about fell over!! 7y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag And I'm dying of jealousy (I have a beautiful paperback version but still) excellent find! 7y

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batsy I love Fire & Hemlock and Pamela Dean's Tam Lin 💜 7y

elkeOriginal I approve 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y

Kalalalatja I would do the same thing tbh 👌 7y

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batsy

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

This might one of my favourite novels of all time. And it has the ugliest cover. This article sums it up nicely http://the-toast.net/2014/02/25/tam-lin-pleasures-of-reading/ (warning: it has SPOILERS). This book has Shakespeare and Elizabethan verse and the classics and myths and mystery and ghosts and enigmatic, kind, beautiful boyfriends; what's not to love, really? #AprilBookShowers #badcovergoodbook #bookishnerdecstasy

MayJasper 😂 8y

elkeOriginal Agreed - I like the cover on my edition MUCH better! 7y

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elkeOriginal

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

#funfridayphoto set in a university = Tam Lin. Ignore the uninspiring Litsy description. First, I love this Fairy Tales series Terri Windling created in the 1990s. If you ever see any, buy them. This one is a modern retelling of Tam Lin set in a midwestern university in Vietnam-era America. It's filled with college life & friends and plenty of academia. And then the Queen of Faery shows up and Janet has to kick her ass for her man's soul.

Liberty

batsy Oh yes, this edition is stunning ☺ I'm so mad at the ugly edition that I have lol ️ 7y

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kammartinez

Tam Lin | Pamela Dean

So for #FunFridayPhoto, my favorite book set at a college is deffo this one. The lead character is a girl who goes to college expressly to study literature (like I did), and one of her closest friends is studying science but loves to read (like one of my closest friends). So reading this was basically like reading an idealized version of my college life, with a touch of fae magic and cute boys who quote Shakespeare as easily as kiss you ;).

Liberty

kammartinez As an aside: I would very much like to meet a boy who can quote Shakespeare as easily as kiss me, but alas, Tom Hiddleston does not know I exist, and so I am going to have to go without, for now. 8y

Yamich49 @kammartinez 😆😆 There's still time - there's no way he and Taylor are in a real relationship. Just wait it out 😉 8y

kammartinez @Yamich49 Lol! I was thinking more that he's a globe-trotting world-famous celebrity, and I'm just a book nerd from a Third World country, but hey: a girl can dream, yeah ;D? 8y

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