Enjoying this fantasy novel immensely, especially because it keeps referencing poetry and poets. Most recent reference was a Rilke poem (Evening)
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The Wood Wife | 
Enjoying this fantasy novel immensely, especially because it keeps referencing poetry and poets. Most recent reference was a Rilke poem (Evening)
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a wonderful fantasy/mystery novel by a really beautiful writer. The main character goes to Arizona after a famous writer she admires and befriended dies a mysterious death. There are spirits of the earth roaming around and interesting neighbors. It was a great read for me in November when I start to feel earthy. Fall makes me feel this way more than spring. This was my #bookspinbingo No. 20 pick. Recommend!
#3books #thatmademewanttotravel
The Wood Wife
Outlander
Circe (someone please send me into exile on a beautiful, quiet island with a lovely house and my lion familiar! Lol)
I was browsing books on my five star shelf here on litsy and when I came to this one I realized my post from 3 years ago about it was the third post! Lol. Totally lovely, definitely underrated paranormal read set in the Arizona desert before paranormal was fashionable. Rattler courtesy of our local zoo 🐍🌵☀️ #30junebooks @howjessreads
The moment when you can't make up your mind whether you want to pick a rearead or a new read.. So you are stuck with a stack. 📚
pickThank you @BarbaraTheBibliophage for this amazing book. It made me want to go back to Tucson and wander the mountains. I also loved that the author described the art in a way that made me want to go and see it.
I have had a very bad week at work, then today was payroll. I opened my #booktoteswap from @BarbaraTheBibliophage I know what I am doing this weekend! I love the skulls on the bag so I had to take a picture of it with the collection!!!!Also working in Social Services the post it notes are perfect!
"She swallowed. The room was warm, and something was melting inside of her—it felt like her bones."
So much of this book is wonderful, and over half of that is that it is filtered through the view of Maggie Black, the mostly-narrator and my #girlcrush. One of the few books where I didn't just daydream myself in the place of the protagonist. Incidentally, this book also introduced me to surrealism and cemented my love for magical realism, so there's a lot of crushing going on. Crushing all over the place.
"We're talking about poems, words on a page," fox said tapping his knee, "and what those words turn into when they slip inside your brain." He tapped his head. "It's magic; and magic disappears if you Try to hard to pin it down."
"The desert wasn't as she'd imagined it at all: a Sahara landscape of sand and dunes. Rather, it was a Japanese garden made of stone, a sage-green land of low, gnarled trees, creosote bushes and cactus."
Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder,
die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält;
du schaust: und von dir scheiden sich die Länder,
ein himmelfahrendes und eins, das fällt;
und lassen dich, zu keinem ganz gehörend,
nicht ganz so dunkel wie das Haus, das schweigt,
nicht ganz so sicher Ewiges beschwörend
wie das, was Stern wird jede Nacht und steigt;
3y
dein Leben bang und riesenhaft und reifend,
so daß es, bald begrenzt und bald begreifend,
abwechselnd Stein in dir wird und Gestirn
Evening
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
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not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what becomes a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell 3y