There’s always that tension, between contentedness and wanting to spring forward into something more. What if content is something more? Can we spring forward and tumble in on our selves, revere the somersault?
She wondered
if nomads had ever stepped here, if their memories made the traces their soft shoes didn’t. Did someone kill their dinner here? Was love made, a family disbanded? Did sickness demand its ransom? Did a god touch this earth?
She folded herself down and threaded her fingers through grass. Is it happy like this, free and flowing? She poked underneath and withdrew a brown finger.
Why is the earth red? Did someone have to die to give the world color?
Cry for water?
Smile for clouds?
The bell rang, time to go inside. She didn’t want to learn about the planets or cholorophyll. She wanted to stay in the field and invent her own reasons and ask questions and sing songs to silent ancient moccasins.
50 Books in 1 Year
Well…I did it! I met my goal of reading 50 books from May to the end of April :D
Here’s the rundown:
Memoir
1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Novel
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
5. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (well, I technically only read the last 400 pages in this time frame but that’s enough to constitute a normally-sized book)
6-8. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
9. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
11. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
12. Howards End by E.M. Forster
13. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
14. Goodbye to Berlin by Isherwood
15. The Loved One by Waugh
16. The Lonely Londoners by Selvon
17. Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys
18. Changing Places by Lodge
19. The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
20. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
21. Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
22. Looking for Alaska by John Green
23-25. The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
26. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
27. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Poetry Collections
28. A Village Life by Louis Gluck
29. Averno by Louis Gluck
30. White Egrets by Walcott
31. Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
32. Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry
Artistic/Literary Commentary
33. The Art of the Poetic Line by Longenbach
34. The Empty Space by Peter Brook
35. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Short Story Collections
36. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
37. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
38. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
39. Arresting god In Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
Graphic Novel
40. Ramayana: The Divine Loophole by Sanjay Patel
Play
41. Moonlight by Harold Pinter
42. Ruined by Lynn Nottage
43. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
44. Lysistrata
45. “Master Harold” …and the Boys by Athol Fugard
46. Wit by Margaret Edson
47. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesee Williams
Essay Collections
48. At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
49. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Psychology Nonfiction
50. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
I bolded my faves for reccomendations in case anyone is interested in borrowing something from me or checking one of these out. :)
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
—Albert Camus (via calmitate)
(Source: freyjageist, via teachingliteracy)
(Source: theyuniversity, via teachingliteracy)
