#DaysDevotedTo Day 2: #AllSouls with Pessoa. Here is my book haul from Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, the world‘s oldest operating bookstore in the world, according to the Guinness World Records: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qPD
#DaysDevotedTo Portuguese #Authors while I was in Lisbon a few weeks back - at the ostensibly oldest running bookstore in the world, according to Guinness World Records - Livraria Bertrand founded in 1732.
pickMy first introduction to Shirley Jackson who I‘ve heard so much about! A set of 3 short stories where she offers no easy explanations or conclusions to the reader. An underlying sense of eerie-ness that persists even if we don‘t completely get what‘s going on. Great mindbenders. Definitely interested in reading more of her soon!
Day 1#sealeychallenge
A short collection of works by WCW. (I believe from a poetry swap from @batsy ?)
"Flowers by the Sea"
When over the flowery, sharp pasture's
edge, unseen, the salt ocean
lifts its form -- chicory and daisies
tied, released, seems hardly flowers alone
but color and the movement -- or the shape
perhaps -- of restlessness, whereas
the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem.
My stack for #thesealeychallenge. It's my second time attempting it. Goal is to read one book each day in August. Wish me luck! 😅
pickLenora Carrington‘s “The Skeleton‘s Holiday” has to be the weirdest book I‘ve ever read in my life.
It‘s crazy, bordering on creepy. Absolutely indelicate and strangely incredible. By calling upon human artifice, she brings alive creatures at their best and baddest simultaneously.
You gotta love an author who really couldn‘t give two shits about the rules of literature.
(Also, have you seen her paintings? OMG!! They‘re incredible.)
I have no ambitions or wants.
To be a poet is no ambition of mine.
It is my way of staying alone.
