Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) is considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge One must be able to forget them and have vast patience until they come again … and when they become blood within us, and glances and gestures … then first it can happen that in a rare hour the first word of a verse may arise and come forth… One must be able to think back the way to unknown places … and to partings long foreseen, to days of childhood … and to parents … to days on the sea … to nights of travel… and one must have memories of many nights of love, no two alike … and the screams of women in childbed … one must have sat by the dying, one must have sat by the dead in a room with open windows…. To write one line, a man ought to see many cities, people, and things he must learn to know animals and the way of birds in the air, and how little flowers Open in the morning. For poetry isn’t, as people imagine, merely feelings (these come soon enough) it is experiences. One should wait and gather sweetness and light all his life, a long one if possible, and then maybe at the end he might write ten good lines. Poetry Dispatch No.142 | December 27, 2006Īlas, those verses one writes in youth aren’t much.
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Tolkien which influenced her writing of the type of books. What lead to her interest into fantasy writing was when she was exposed to the Lord of the Rings by J. Her passion for books came at a tender age through reading her writing began when she was in her sixth grade. They settled there for six months then later moved to El Granada where they stayed for a year before relocating to Burlingame where they lived for three years. Initially they settled in San Mateo then moved to Miramar on the other side of Peninsula of San Fransisco. She lived in Dunbar from when she was five but later moved to California at the age of eight, in June 1963 with her family. The eldest in a family of three girls, her two other sisters are Kimberly and Malanie who were born when she was five and six respectively. The name Tamora was born out of a spelling error when her maid was filling her birth certificate, contrary to the mother wanting to name her Tamara. Born Tamora Pierce on Decemin South Connellsville Pennsylvania, Fayette County she cut her own niche with writings that feature young heroines. For this American writer fantasy fiction is a strong hold. In this incendiary, revolutionary household, Shepherd listens and observes as egos roar and quake. Shepherd’s skills learned in the kitchen of his island home lead him to mixing plaster for Diego Rivera’s murals “It’s like making dough for pan dulce” where he joins the household as cook and typist for Rivera, his artist wife, Frida Kahlo, and later for their guest, the exiled Communist leader Trotsky. When that new word is the title of the book, there’s a pretty good chance you will remember it.Ī ‘lucuna’ is a space or a void, a deep underwater cave, something hidden, unknown already we see its metaphorical potential and Barbara Kingsolver puts it to good use in this excellent novel which intertwines the fictional story of 12 year old Shepherd, through historical events of Mexico and the US in the 1930’s and 40’s, including time spent in the household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and their controversial houseguest Leon Trotsky.Ī fan of the film ‘Frida’ beautifully depicted by, I’d met these characters on screen and found them good company in Kingsolver’s story of Shepherd whose socially aspiring Mexican mother ditches her emotionally cool civil servant husband to return to “Isla Pixol” an island off the coast of Mexico. I love it when a book introduces a new word and uses it sufficiently that you know it’s not fleeting knowledge, something you know for a day and have difficulty recalling a week later. Williams would never play in a Major League game again. He was "The Eternal Kid" in many ways.Īnd at Fenway Park, in late September of 1960, he would hit his 521st home run against Jack Fisher of the Baltimore Orioles. And, like Musial, he would serve his country in the Armed Forces. He would accumulate over 2,000 bases on balls. The way he would nervously move and crane his neck … the way he would grind and churn the bat handle … the way he would be ready to unleash his deadly swing on a good pitch. I still remember watching this left-handed slugger in the batter's box. I saw him hit a home run in the very first game I attended (September of 1960 at Yankee Stadium). 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Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey's previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. In post – World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets. "Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." - New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches We are ready for the fun to begin but first things first, scroll on down to get your first look at this GORGEOUS cover! We don’t know about you, buuuuut we would be shocked, a little nervous, and honestly kind of thrilled at the turn of events here. Like Ever, the students of Loveboat are all hiding their own secrets and insecurities-and when their lives collide, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget. 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Mia Sheridan is coming this week, Wednesday 4/19, and the following week we'll have Alexandria Bellefleur visiting on Tuesday April 25. Hey, r/RomanceBooks! Here are a few announcements before we get to all the details of what you read: |