Bookish Things

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So during the holiday season, I picked up a few books. I made myself wait until I'd written 2K words of fics I owe before I posted this, and that much is done, so here goes.


Yuleswap:

I requested poetry and my very dear, much appreciated swapper sent me three books of poetry. Yay.

1. Favorite Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


2. Selected Poems - Emily Dickinson


3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

I adore Longfellow, I like Dickinson's cutting style, and I love Spanish, so it's nice to have something bilingual like this to settle into and drown in a few verses. Total win.


Personal Purchases:

1. American Sniper - totally research; I keep writing about this character who's a sniper and it caught my eye four or five times


2. Bourne Ascendancy - I like the Bourne fandom, so when I saw the mass market at a nice, low price, I snagged it


3. Dealing with Dragons - P.C. Wrede - to get to free shipping on a Christmas present, and because I originally bought this book for less than two dollars at a thrift store and mourned it when it got lost in a move, so lovely to have it back


4. Whimsy, Ink, and Love - a collection of my own poetry for a Christmas gift for family, not to be published


5. Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine - for this fic I'm writing (and shall now get back to)

Read anything good this past month or two?