When I read, I’m always looking more for graceful manipulation of language than anything else. While plot and character development are important to me, if a book/poem has amazing grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, I’m sold. Some of my favorite books, therefore, include Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy, and pretty much anything ever written by David Leviathan. My favorite book in the last few months is This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz—both because it takes place in my home state and it is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. I love reading a book and feeling like the author took every single word into account as (s)he wrote it down.
I just finished a historical nonfiction book entitled Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan. I’m working on a story about a “child” and a nun in this environment, so this book was solely for research purposes. The next book on my list is The Golden Oriole by Raleigh Trevelyan, another historical nonfiction book about an English family in India. I’m getting ready to enter grad school in the field of British Imperialist History, thus the recent book list.
I’m a huge fan of LGBT*QIA literature, and some of my favorites are Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman, The Empress of the World by Sara Ryan, and Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden. For the most part, however, I tend to stick to poetry. Some of my favorite poets, old and new, include Sappho, Jinji Moon, Richard Siken, Byron, Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Charles Bukowski.
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I just finished a historical nonfiction book entitled Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan. I’m working on a story about a “child” and a nun in this environment, so this book was solely for research purposes. The next book on my list is The Golden Oriole by Raleigh Trevelyan, another historical nonfiction book about an English family in India. I’m getting ready to enter grad school in the field of British Imperialist History, thus the recent book list.
I’m a huge fan of LGBT*QIA literature, and some of my favorites are Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman, The Empress of the World by Sara Ryan, and Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden. For the most part, however, I tend to stick to poetry. Some of my favorite poets, old and new, include Sappho, Jinji Moon, Richard Siken, Byron, Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Charles Bukowski.
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