![]() Poetry is one of the ultimate expressions of creativity. Even when trying to keep it as close to the original as possible, there are phrases that just don't translate literally. And language is so entwined in culture and history, going word for word is going to produce, to put it bluntly, shit poetry. Poetry is about the feelings than the actual text. Translation in poetry is less about the words and more about the meaning. And the above poetry (my own) is just bad. ![]() Like I said, poetry isn't really my bag, but even I know that translating poetry is an especially difficult thing to do. But they are mostly basball related. For example: Their titles imply a sense of varying topics. They belong to what Murakami dubs the "Yakult Swallows Poetry Anthology" (the Yakult Swallows being a Japanese baseball team). The most interesting thing about 夢で合いましょう, however, is the inclusion of some pieces of writing by Mr. (You can even check out some sample translations at Yomuka!) ![]() Another one of the myriad Haruki Murakami books I have purchased recently is 夢で合いましょう, or, Let's Meet in a Dream, a collaborative collection of myriad belle lettres he wrote along with essayist/noted video game creator Shigesato Itoi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Moncrieff's beloved translation as the basis for this annotated and fully revised edition. Permeated by the “bloom of youth” and its resonances in memories of love and friendship, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower takes readers into the heart of Proust's comic and poetic genius. The reader again encounters Swann, now married to his former mistress and largely fallen from high society, and meets for the first time several of Proust's most memorable characters: the handsome, dashing Robert de Saint-Loup, who will become the narrator's best friend the enigmatic Albertine, leader of the “little band” of adolescent girls the profoundly artistic Elstir, believed to be Proust's composite of Whistler, Monet, and other leading painters and, making his unforgettable entrance near the end of the volume, the intense, indelible Baron de Charlus. ![]() Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann's Way moves further through childhood and into adolescence, as the author brilliantly examines themes of love and youth, in settings in Paris and by the sea in Normandy. It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame. Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century's great literary triumphs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King began the Dark Tower series in 1974 it gained momentum in the 1980s and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 20. We live for them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. ![]() “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. ![]() In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria. and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet -Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler-encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second half of the book is where things get very…. Yikes! but also Yay, Sharks! Speaking of the art, it is, of course, beautiful! Somehow Ito manages beauty even in the most disgusting moments. The fish in the first half of the book (vol. ![]() BRILLIANT! □ It is a really simple design but so very effective at being creepers. I love the mix of ocean life with spider like legs. ![]() Man, Gyo is one bizarre trip! It is so crazy it is hard to even explain. This edition was published by Viz Media in 2021. Translated by Yunji Oniki Hardback edition that combines both vol. Gyo: The Death Stench Creeps by Junji Ito. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of Uzumaki, Junji Ito. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene… So begins Tadashi and Kaori’s spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. The floating smell of death hangs over the island. ![]() ![]() Some erstwhile adversaries we have hunted to extinction, or nearly so. As civilization has advanced over the march of millennia, humans have assiduously stripped the animal kingdom of its armies, decommissioned its officers. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Wasik and Murphy chronicle more than two millennia of myths and discoveries about rabies and the animals that transmit it, including dogs, bats and raccoons." -The Wall Street Journal A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating. ![]() "A searing narrative." -The New York Times "In this keen and exceptionally well-written book, rife with surprises, narrative suspense and a steady flow of expansive insights, 'the world's most diabolical virus' conquers the unsuspecting reader's imaginative nervous system. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. ![]() ![]() The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With little money, even less work experience, and no idea what to do next, she takes tentative steps - if only to keep her head above water.Īlong the way, Nikki unexpectedly finds herself falling in with eccentric new neighbors - and being seduced out of her funk by a charming, elusive ex-Londoner. Nicole Bridges still can’t believe she’s taken up residence in a Colorado apartment complex nicknamed “Splitsville.” She’s still reeling from her husband’s affair, a divorce she never saw coming, and having to leave the upscale, comfortable world she helped make for her ex and their teenage daughter. Sometimes real passion means living the life you’ve always wanted. (Originally published as Madame Mirabou’s School of Love, by Barbara Samuel) ![]() ![]() There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. ![]() Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”-deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. ![]() ![]() Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The earliest pictures were black and white: candid, quietly observed portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, often illuminated by gauzy natural light, with an offbeat compositional sense. ![]() The overwhelming majority of his photographs document a mere handful of blocks. An apartment in the dilapidated Lower East Side became his home and imaginative locus over the next 60-odd years, only rarely did he venture out of the city. He eventually dropped out of rabbinical school, and, at the age of 23, boarded a bus for New York, intending to focus on becoming a painter. But when his mother gave him a Detrola at the age of 12 – “I can’t remember why,” Leiter later shrugged, “I thought I’d like a camera” – a different course was set. Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, he grew up in an stringently Jewish household, and was expected to follow his father, a towering figure in Talmudic scholarship, into what amounted to the family business. One of the numerous puzzles about Leiter is the fact that, until recent years, few people had even heard his name. ![]() ![]() ![]() MID The Day the Earth Was Silent Michael McGuffee ![]() PRE Blue Jay in the DesertMarlene Shigekawa MID The Blue BoyMartin Auer and Simone Klages MID The Big Book for Peace Ann Durrell and Marilyn Sachs, editors PRE Bang, Bang, You're Dead Sandra Scoppetone YA Back the Attack! Remixed War Propaganda Micah Ian Wright YA All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque MID Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace SeekersMilton Meltzer Your mileage my vary, but PRE should be suitable for preschool and the beginning grades ERL for kids in the early elementary grades MID for preteens to early teens, and YA We've labeled the English-language titles according to four rough age groups. Assigning age levels to books is an imprecise endeavor at best. can help you find them.Įvery book its reader. That's not to be interpreted asĪn endorsement we urge you to buy from local independentīooksellers. Of a gargantuan online bookstore simply because it does such a good job Titles are linked to reviews and publication details, most at the site Welcome any information you have on titles you suggest, such asĪge/reading level, publishers, and your thumbnail reviews or personal ![]() To add your suggestions and toĬomment on titles you see here, please write to Alison Clement or Bruce Jensen. List was built from the contributions of librarians, educators, Please visit the wiki, and please make changes and additions if you can. ![]() We hope that, as a wiki, thisīibliography will grow, develop, and stay current with the help of its Note: This page was revised in October 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had a couple of requests to include my SPOILERY thoughts into these reading blogs, so I have provided you guys with an optional drop down section in this post with my spoilery thoughts. I had already planned to do another and today’s reading blog is for The Beautiful and The Damned by Renée Ahdieh! Renée’s latest series that have had mixed reviews, especially as they feature an old YA creature we haven’t seen in a while…vampires!Ī quick disclaimer before I begin, I had no idea that The Perks of Being Noura, a blogging goddess herself, had already been doing reading blogs for a while! I think I never caught any of the posts because I simply hadn’t discovered her blog at the time – but now that I know this, please give her reading blogs a read because they’re so good! It’s awesome to see that another blogger had the same train of thought and I hope that we can make reading blogs more popular with our posts □ NEW READING BLOG FEATURE Hello everyone! I had…no idea how good my ‘Reading Blog’ for To Sleep In A Sea of Stars would end up being here ( my official review for the book is out btw!) and I was so surprised and overwhelmed with the positive response. ![]() |