pickRead for #classicschallenge2025 and because I‘ve had it on my bookcase forever. Obviously very preachy and religious, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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A new quarter is already here!
The year and the new season have started and it is time for new adventures!
This quarter we want to read some of the classic tales of adventure and discovery!
Get out your maps, pack your bundle or sea chest and off we go!
If someone would like to be tagged in this challenge, let me know😊
#classicschallenge2025
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A new quarter is already here!
The year and the new season have started and it is time for new adventures!
This quarter we want to read some of the classic tales of adventure and discovery!
Get out your maps, pack your bundle or sea chest and off we go!
If someone would like to be tagged in this challenge, let me know😊
#classicschallenge2025
@LitsyEvents
pickYears ago, I came across the poem “The Taxi” by Amy Lowell, and its final line has lived in my brain ever since: “Why should I leave you, / To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?” I‘ve meant to read a collection of her poetry ever since, but we all know how the TBR intentions sometimes go. So when it became apparent that in spite of my best intentions in January, I definitely wasn‘t going to get around to reading any (let alone all ⤵️
Classic religious poetry that I doubt I'll finish in time for Eid (not that I'd planned on that, but it would have been nifty) or before the end of the poetry quarter of #classicschallenge2025 because it's quite involved...
@Lunakay
An excerpt from In the ‘Gu̇la̋nda‘ Bookshop by Kazakh author Yerlan Junis, a poem about books, bookshops, bookshelves and poets from an anthology available for free on https://www.cambridge.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/Kazakh_Poetry_Book... I don't mind that type of soft power move 😁 👏
#poetry #Kazakhstan #classicschallenge2025
@Lunakay
Naġašy = maternal relative
Since we finally had the first touches of spring this weekend, it always makes me think of this amazing poem. Here's the first stanza:
Vorfrühling (Early Spring)
"Es läuft der Frühlingswind
Durch kahle Alleen,
Seltsame Dinge sind
In seinem Wehn"
Roughly: The Spring wind runs/through bare-branched alleys/strange things are/in its blowing
It rhymes in the German original?
#classicschallenge2025
#poetry
For my first #classicschallenge2025, I am reading a 7th-century collection of love poems dedicated to Leyla by the poet/narrator Majnun - the Arab Romeo and Juliet.
And as it happens, yesterday was Epiphany, which we celebrate with a cake/pie with a small figurine hidden inside. Whoever finds it is the king/queen. I got it, and it's in the exact same colour scheme as the book's cover!
@Lunakay
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Happy New Year, Littens!✨️🎉
New year, new reads!
For this rather relaxed challenge, we focus on different classic works of literature, starting with some poetry in the first months of the year while waiting for spring!
To participate, read poems from collections, a novel in verse, or maybe focus on one poet - anything from your classics shelf goes!
#classicschallenge2025
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