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Some excellent things of a Tuesday
Sep. 23rd, 2014 12:26 pmYou can choose between poems, novels, folklore, cool nonfiction, or nature, or--you can have all of them
poems
People who read this blog will no doubt be aware of the new zine Liminality. Well its first issue is out! With a lovely portrait of a mangrove dryad by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar on its cover and so. many. wonderful. poems.
Maggie Hogarth's cover
LIMINALITY
( some of the poetic goodness under the cut )
novels
Just one: Prisoner, by Lia Silver. I haven't written up my review of it yet, but it's just so good.
( some effusive gushing )
Folklore
Part one of a two-part introduction to mythic, folkloric creatures from around the world is up right now at the Book Smugglers. Cultures covered include Mexican, South Asian (Vedic based), Maori, and Filipino, as well as a look at dragonlike beings around the world, and the wonders of actual, real-world trees from around the world. A great read.
"A Diverse Mythical Creatures Round Table"
Cool nonfiction
I haven't read this yet, but I'm going to: Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney.
Did you know that there was a nation of escaped slaves that existed for almost 90 years in the 1600s in Brazil? I did not. I wonder what stories and legends must come down through the generations from that nation? I expect Glenn's book will help answer that question. He's written about the dispossessed farmers of Brazil, Promised Land, which I reviewed here, so I have confidence that this book will be an in-depth, thoughtful treatment.
nature
a leaf falls on its face--you have a hint at what that face will show, but you're not sure:
. . . so you must turn it over.
There now. Perfect.
And with that I leave you for a bit, my friends. Gotta earn some money. But I will drop by your pages and answer comments later today.
People who read this blog will no doubt be aware of the new zine Liminality. Well its first issue is out! With a lovely portrait of a mangrove dryad by
haikujaguar on its cover and so. many. wonderful. poems.LIMINALITY
( some of the poetic goodness under the cut )
Just one: Prisoner, by Lia Silver. I haven't written up my review of it yet, but it's just so good.
( some effusive gushing )
Part one of a two-part introduction to mythic, folkloric creatures from around the world is up right now at the Book Smugglers. Cultures covered include Mexican, South Asian (Vedic based), Maori, and Filipino, as well as a look at dragonlike beings around the world, and the wonders of actual, real-world trees from around the world. A great read.
I haven't read this yet, but I'm going to: Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney.
Did you know that there was a nation of escaped slaves that existed for almost 90 years in the 1600s in Brazil? I did not. I wonder what stories and legends must come down through the generations from that nation? I expect Glenn's book will help answer that question. He's written about the dispossessed farmers of Brazil, Promised Land, which I reviewed here, so I have confidence that this book will be an in-depth, thoughtful treatment.
a leaf falls on its face--you have a hint at what that face will show, but you're not sure:
. . . so you must turn it over.
There now. Perfect.
And with that I leave you for a bit, my friends. Gotta earn some money. But I will drop by your pages and answer comments later today.
