#award winning literature

[desdasiwrites]

"If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made."

– Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

[quotelr]

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Strega Nona (based on an old fairy tale) written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola • 1975 • Prentice Hall, New Jersey, publisher

[ladycatofwinterfell]

Going to read an actually good book before doing the last VC because I need a breather from getting my brain scrambled by bullshit every time i open a book

[picturebookshelf]

This Is Not My Hat (2012)

Story and Art: Jon Klassen Canadian

[myname-isnia]

Ever since I first read Eugene Onegin two years ago, and even more now that I had to reread it for school recently, I've been saying that I've never related to a fictional character more than I relate to Tatyana Larina (not counting my own characters, that is, as they are intentional projections). Particularly the verses about Tatyana's childhood hit very close to home. I've been wanting to talk about it for a while but couldn't find a translation of the book that I liked. So, instead of sleeping, I spent 2 hours absolutely torturing my own brain by coming up with my own translation and I'm way too proud not to share.

Eugene Onegin, chapter 2, verses 25, 26 and 27, translated with the original temp and rhyming scheme intact, by yours truly <3

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XXV

And so, her sister's named Tatyana.

She seldom catches someone's gaze,

Lacks Olga's beauty, lacks her glamour,

The pink-cheeked freshness of her face.

She's almost feral, quiet with woe,

So quick to startle, like a doe.

And even in her family home

She seemed a child not quite their own.

She hardly ever showed affection,

Both mom and dad would often say.

By window she would spend her day

Alone but for her own reflection,

She judged the children running wild,

Though she herself was still a child.

XXVI

Imagination was her close friend

From infancy. As village days

Kept dragging on without an end,

She'd get lost in her fantasies.

Needle and thread she too avoided,

Fabric was never once embroidered

By her unblemished fingers, for

She found needlework a bore.

An average girl would take her doll,

Sit down with it and start to talk,

Prepare it for the time to walk

Into an upper class grand ball –

To silent dolls during these sessions

Young girls repeat their mothers' lessons.

XXVII

Tatyana never had discussions

With dolls, nor did she play with them;

She never told them of the fashions,

Of city news, and even then

Of toys and games she was quite wary,

She'd rather read of something scary.

In winters, in the dead of night,

Her heart learned how to take a fright.

When for young Olga their old nanny

Would gather up the neighbours' kids

To run and play out in the fields,

Tatyana would act most uncanny:

She never played or ran around,

And found their laughter far too loud.

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[daisies-on-a-cup]

tiktok authors being like "i work soooo hard, i've been writing this book for like 3-4 months now! authors work hard and you should never ever rate a book less than 3 stars bc we work so hard!!!"

pls go on this webbed site or ao3. some of these people have been writing one (1) work for YEARS. yeah quality can vary, but so can your books... you do not deserve an award just bc you put some effort into whatever it is you're writing, that's the bare minimum for any published piece of work...

[booksofdelight]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Book Review

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[natsunes]

okay so bc i still cant get over this: yesterday i found out that my grandmother, who has led (and still leads) a probably happy enough, but extremely normal and unremarkable adult life (with all my love but she had a basic office job she hated), was Apparently (in the 70's, still living in sweden) offered the chance to make the finnish translation of the gulag archipelago....and Refused

[1-1-s1ay-2-2]

I always love a beautiful mind 😍

“His own needs, he said, were “to be free, and to be safe and for friends.” He was always, he said, “in fear of ‘death’ (Indian style) through an Armageddon with Iblis...at the Day of Judgement.” Even in these very dark hours he clung to a vision of liberation — which later became, more concretely, a wish for sexual liberation. “I’m hoping fervently to be saved (delivered) before reaching 40 in age,” he had written a few weeks before his birthday. “One cannot substitute free life and love of the 40s for the lost possibilities of the 20s and 30s and also teens.” Nash was acutely aware of the passage of time. “It does seem to me that I’ve been as if the victim of an excessively long wait for liberation...”

[desdasiwrites]

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

– Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

[l0std1adem]

*reads book*

hmm why is this author deliberately twisting parts of Hindu scripture to fit her narrative?

*checks early life section*

oh

[folklorianhaze]

I fear I will forever be chasing the high that reading the acotar series for the first time four years ago gave me

[cupofteajones]

Upcoming Author Talks in December

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[picturebookshelf]

Spiders Spin Webs (2008)

Story: Yvonne Winer -- Art: Karen Lloyd-Jones

[poetryforall]

-Rumi

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