#Memory in literature

[arylleth]

i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

[feral-ballad]

Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “Entanglement”

[Text ID: “You are there. I am here. I remember.”]

[metamorphesque]

― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

[cafehopping]

Better off forgotten

The Memory PoliceBy Yoko Ogawa274 pp. Vintage. $16. The most disappointing book I’ve read this year. What should have been a dazzling work of dystopian literature comes off as an unoriginal retread. This just goes to show that intriguing concepts don’t necessarily translate to great literature. The “action” — if you can call it that — takes place on a Japanese island where disappearances of…

[y2kaee]

[luthienne]

George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]

[nobita-here]

Dear me ,

Don't be hard on yourself , you're doing okay

[dumblr]

“There are your memories in my tears.”

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman

[mournfulroses]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[amicus-noctis]

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” ― Louise Gluck

Photo: from Andrei Tarkovskys "The Mirror" (1975)

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries below:

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

Science fiction, time travel, multiverse, epistolary, adult

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan series)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.

Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.

Science fiction, politics, mystery, political thriller, series, adult

[feral-ballad]

Linda Pastan, from Waiting for My Life: Poems; "What We Want"

[Text ID: "and in the morning / our arms ache. / We don't remember the dream, / but the dream remembers us."]

[metamorphesque]

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

[quotespile]

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

[typewriter-worries]

Mercy, Mercy Me, John Murillo