“There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one‘s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.”
- Act IV, Lady Windermere‘s Fan
Random book from our personal library.
so-soThe Ballad of Reading Gaol is amazing, the poem portrays how prisoners feel on those days when one of them is going to be executed, it really transports you to prison life. The other poems where a meh for me, a bit of his impressions on Italy, some about mythology, just didn't really do it for me, I guess I found them a bit sterile after the Ballad
pickScores from the book swap on the way to ballet during the school holidays.
panI hated this. It has the weirdness and cruelty of old fairy tales without any of the wit of Oscar Wilde. They are weirdly dark, I know old fairytales usually are, but there's a lesson to be learn from them: don't walk alone in the forest, beware of the big bad wolf, don't go into the witches house even if she gives you candy, don't steal the bear's porridge (?)... Whatever, they could be cruel but they were aimed to keep the children alive. ⬇️
I forgot to post my #WeeklyFavorites for April.
~The Lioness of Boston (Isabella Gardiner)
~Witness
~Jane Kenyon‘s Collected Poems
~Watching the Perseids
~Man in the Brown Suit
4 books are #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth
Oof. I‘ve read 10/100 and that‘s being generous by assuming I read certain children‘s books. OTOH I‘ve probably bailed on at least 10 too. 🤣
Here are some I finished and enjoyed. #TLT
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. The Color Purple
3. The Little Prince
Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-the-bbcs-big-read-200-101
Happy St. Patrick‘s Day . Gonna have me a Guinness & think about Irish writers ,like Oscar Wilde .
The etching is of the tower at Glendalough , county Wicklow ,from the 6th century.I was lucky enough to visit it once.☘️
