July 2011
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Just returned from Borders
9 books for $25
Liquidation sales are simultaneously sad and wonderful.
It just occurred to me that some of you still may not have heard about Borders. Borders filed Chapter 11 early this year, were almost saved, but they announced liquidation recently and are closing their doors rather quickly. My advice would be to storm the doors as quickly as possible if there’s something you’ve...
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Tumblr recs
This is probably one of the most common asks I get. So I figure I’ll do one of these from time to time. Check ‘em out.
Bookfessions FYeahQueerTeenLit IHeartClassics WritersandKitties SharingPoetry
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News stuff
I’m back from my trip. It was fantastic. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures with the authors, but I did get David Levithan to autograph my copy of Love is the Higher Law. I also talked with Arthur Levine for a little while, whose name may sound familiar to Harry Potter adorers. I have a whole bunch of stories, but the only other short one that speaks for itself without a full...
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Guys, guys, guys
I’m meeting a bunch of YA authors, agents, and publishers on Wednesday.
I am freaking out a bit.
John Green
Maureen Johnson
Libba Bray
Arthur A. Levine
David Levithan
and more… O_O
I’ll bring back pictures, hopefully. There’s bound to be a good story when I get back. Or just a really awkward one about how I became tongue-tied and totally blew my moment.
Do you...
June 2011
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Night Journey
Now as the train bears west, Its rhythm rocks the earth, And from my Pullman berth I stare into the night While others take their rest.
Bridges of iron lace, A suddenness of trees, A lap of mountain mist All cross my line of sight, Then a bleak wasted place, And a lake below my knees.
Full on my neck I feel The straining at a curve; My muscles move with steel, I wake in every nerve.
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I Say I Say I Say
Anyone here had a go at themselves for a laugh? Anyone opened their wrists with a blade in the bath? Those in the dark at the back, listen hard. Those at the front in the know, those of us who have, hands up, let’s show that inch of lacerated skin between the forearm and the fist. Let’s tell it like it is: strong drink, a crimson tidemark round the tub, a yard of lint, white...
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Safe Sex
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel— then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of...
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A Very Sad Tale
I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men the rush and roar of fire, The sweet transparency of glass, The tenderness of April grass, The durability of granite; But me- I don’t know how to plan it. The lads I’ve met in Cupid’s deadlock Were- shall we say?- born out of wedlock. They broke my heart, they stilled my...
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Here In This spring
Here in this spring, stars float along the void; Here in this ornamental winter Down pelts the naked weather; This summer buries a spring bird.
Symbols are selected from the years’ Slow rounding of four seasons’ coasts, In autumn teach three seasons’ fires And four birds’ notes.
I should tell summer from the trees, the worms Tell, if at all, the winter’s...
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Give me suggestions?
Any authors, books, book/movie combination you’d like to see, send it in. I’m bored, therefore I am taking gif requests.
On a different note, apologies for no Saturday Poetry Slam. Tumblr ate up the queue, but we’ll just pretend tomorrow is Saturday. ;)
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Anonymous asked: Do you have a goodreads or shelfari?
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“What is reading, but silent conversation.”
– Walter Savage Landor
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“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
– Walter Savage Landor
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“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else,...”
– Jim Butcher, White Nights
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“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often...”
– David Clement-Davies, Fell
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What I will look like when I finish this...
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“The optimist fell ten stories.
At each window bar he shouted to his friends:...”
– Author unknown, The Optimist
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most...”
– Charles W. Eliot
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Cave writing
rjyoungwrites:
I sit in a cave writing.
In my perfect world, there are no doors, no windows, no sun, no moon, no night, no day. There is simply a blank sheet of paper and the impulsion to fill it with my own substance, my own being.
Writing is lonely. Anyone who has ever said writing is anything else is lying to you and, worse, to themselves.
Writing is hard work. It is easy to write bad...
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You should read this. No, really, it contains...
Literature Creep is turning six months old soon. Frankly, I’m feeling less than stellar about having to take so many breaks from posting here. The natural conclusion?
Giveaway!
Since not all Lit. Creeps are alike, I’m aiming to put together three packages over the next week or so. You will not know what these packages are themed or contain until later this month. However, chances are...
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“If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me,...”
– Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
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The Narrative of John Smith by Arthur Conan Doyle... →
Through the character of John Smith, a 50-year-old man confined to his room by an attack of gout, Conan Doyle sets down his thoughts and opinions on subjects including literature, science, religion, war, and education.
From the article and news that’s been release about the novel, it seems that this is more of an introspective look at a young Arthur Doyle. In the beginning, as writers,...
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“I’m allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we’d do better...”
– Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
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On hiatus for... a while
literaturecreep:
Well, this is the official answer to the majority of asks I’m getting that seem to start with “where are you?/why aren’t you posting?/is everything ok?”
Serious family medical issues are happening
Those books above: 3/4 of the reading I have to finish before July
First round of editing on my behemoth single spaced manuscript
Sadly, I could keep these bullet points going...
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“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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Raised by Women by Kelly Norman Ellis
I was raised by Chitterling eating Vegetarian cooking Cornbread so good you want to lay down and die baking “Go on baby, get yo’self a plate” Kind of Women.
Some thick haired Angela Davis afro styling “Girl, lay back and let me scratch yo head” Sorta Women.
Some big legged High yellow, mocha brown Hip shaking Miniskirt wearing Hip huggers hugging Daring...
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Talkin' Back to Mama by Carmen R. Gillespie
Broom in hand, she screamed: “Gal, I’ll knock your head off And roll it out the back door.” Hand on hip, I stood defiant. How far could a broomswept head go anyway?
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For the Dead by Adrienne Rich
I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after the rains have stopped
Or the fire you want to go to bed from but cannot leave, burning-down but not...
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Let the only thing that holds me down be the...
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Chris Colfer's ambitious future →
tenacioustoafault:
“He’s writing a script for an independent film called “Struck by Lightning” (he will also star in the project). He’s currently adapting the children’s book “The Little Leftover Witch” as a pilot for Disney Channel. And on top of all that, he just signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers according to Entertainment Weekly. The first book will be called...
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Texts From Last Night: Lit. to silver screen...
The Outsiders
The Hunger Games
Les Miserables
Marvel comics
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On hiatus for... a while
Well, this is the official answer to the majority of asks I’m getting that seem to start with “where are you?/why aren’t you posting?/is everything ok?”
Serious family medical issues are happening
Those books above: 3/4 of the reading I have to finish before July
First round of editing on my behemoth single spaced manuscript
Sadly, I could keep these bullet points...
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Out of the night that covers me: How Jane Austen... →
xoxosoprano:
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
I was 26 when I read my first Jane Austen novel, “Emma,” the story of a spoiled young lady in Regency England who fancies herself a matchmaker. A graduate student at the time, I was as arrogant as they come and didn’t think there was much anyone could teach me about…