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AurumCalendula ([personal profile] aurumcalendula) wrote2025-11-06 11:02 pm
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When the Hacker is Forced to Marry by Shan You He Ye (translated by Riptide):

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In terms of other books, I'm about a quarter of the way though my Reading the Remnants reread.
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meridian_rose ([personal profile] meridian_rose) wrote2025-11-05 11:33 am

The Big Read meme

I got this meme from [personal profile] flareonfury with details in this post

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read.

3) Underline the books you LOVE."

I bolded titles where I was sure I read them. I bolded numbers where I've read part of the book/book series. I did not bother to underline any. There are a couple of repeats (The Complete Works of Shakespeare but also Hamlet for example) and some odd omissions I think.

The list is included in a textbox in case you want to play
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AurumCalendula ([personal profile] aurumcalendula) wrote2025-11-04 09:35 pm
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some baihe novel stuff

The Beauty's Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu, translated by Yu:

(The print version's out next week, but the ebook was released today.)

some mostly unspoilerly thoughts )


I also saw that someone put together a carrd of human translated baihe novels!
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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-11-04 08:22 am

Paying it forward

If anyone needs a hand to get through this month, let me know. You don’t need to explain, it doesn’t need to be SNAP related in any way. Comments screened. (Not doing friend of a friend stuff, just you, people who read this.)

I will probably make this post private in like a week out of sheer embarrassment so ask soon if you need something.

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here's luck ([personal profile] heresluck) wrote2025-11-03 09:17 pm
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monday poem #334: Carol Ann Duffy, "Death and the Moon"

Thinking of absent friends as the moon turns full and the year turns to winter.

Death and the Moon

                        (for Catherine Marcangeli)

The moon is nearer than where death took you
at the end of the old year. Cold as cash
in the sky's dark pocket, its hard old face
is gold as a mask tonight. I break the ice
over the fish in my frozen pond, look up
as the ghosts of my wordless breath reach
for the stars. If I stood on the tip of my toes
and stretched, I could touch the edge of the moon.

I stooped at the lip of your open grave
to gather a fistful of earth, hard rain,
tough confetti, and tossed it down. It stuttered
like morse on the wood over your eyes, your tongue,
your soundless ears. Then as I slept my living sleep
the ground gulped you, swallowed you whole,
and though I was there when you died,
in the red cave of your widow's unbearable cry,

and measured the space between last words
and silence, I cannot say where you are. Unreachable
by prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeable
in the air, even if souls are stars. I turn
to the house, its windows tender with light, the moon,
surely, only as far again as the roof. The goldfish
are tongues in the water's mouth. The black night
is huge, mute, and you are further forever than that.


— Carol Ann Duffy
from Feminine Gospels