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Recent acquisitions:

📖 W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne
📖 Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
📖 Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

In today‘s installment of catching up my 2023 wrap ups, we find that completion was not a top priority in February. I remember reading quite a bit but only finishing a handful. I think Joyland for #LosersClub probably my favorite of the month, but I enjoyed Spare as well. Not sure if enjoy is the right word but fascinating nonetheless. #BookSpinBingo

#lgbtqNonfiction #pridebookrec
This week of pride I want to highlight some nonfiction reads that are awesome. Starting with this little known history of many famous artists who all lived together in a falling down house in Brooklyn. I didn't realize Carson McCullers was queer before this and overall this house felt like a wildly good time.

The six poets are Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin. Bennett introduces them with a brief biography and indication of their generally accepted place in the world of poetry, then adds his own ideas about them as he comments on the poems he has selected. Interesting and enjoyable and reinforced my liking for these poets, especially MacNeice.

Thanks for posting @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

1.) February House: The Story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Wartime America -- It has been 15+ years since I first read this, and it is still one of my favorites & most recommended. So. Much. Fun!

2.) Memoir and I would say Augusten Burroughs

3.) bell hooks

I read 12 books in February, well one of them, When No One Was Watching, was finished on March 1st, (last chapter), but I counted it in February‘s stats bc most of the book was read In Feb😜I really enjoyed my readings, including the so-so & Pan one, they were books I wanted to read, they were in my tbr. No reading rejects here🤗Not always books turn in what we expected but we need to discover that by ourselves.Love the covers. No Bingo it‘s ok👍

Okay! So I actually kept track of the time read: 30:25:26 !! I finished 4 books: Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer, You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms, and If Walls Could Talk by Juliet Blackwell! Pretty well if I do say so myself. Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting! #FabulousFebruary See you for #20in4

A fascinating record containing a 1950 poetry reading given by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. His sense of humor is so engaging and entertaining and I loved the readings of work by Auden and Yeats.

#Auden #poetry #WHAuden

This book. Why did I wait so long to read this book? I adore this. This is one of those books you read and by the end you have ordered 3 books because reading about how they were written by these people is so fun!
I rarely feel this way about a book but I want to go back in time and live in this house!