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“So. In the beginning, there was nothing. Just the water.” Short Verdict: It is difficult to adequately convey the delight I felt in reading this book. Thomas King’s storytelling voice is moving, delightful, funny and reflective. Green Grass, Running Water is more of a narrative experience than a read. Green Grass, Running Water was my May Shelf Life title,…

The Seven Ages must be read in short, consistent periods – over the course of a day, over the course of a week. Poems must be read and reread, sometimes immediately, sometimes after stepping away for a while. Short Verdict: I have mixed feelings about the consistency of the collection, as some poems don’t seem…

「我告訴她，她會慢慢長大，長大的重點其實不是為了成為一個什麼樣的人，是為了受傷。那些傷口對我們很重要，因為它們將吸引著另一些人的來到，像嗜血的吸血鬼或鯊魚。」 “I told her she would grow up slowly, and that the point of growing up wasn’t to become a certain type of person, but to get hurt. Those hurts are important to us, because they will draw certain people to us – like a thirsty vampire, or a shark.” – from “餘生的第一天，Plumeria” It was…

I’m starting a tinyletter. http://tinyletter.com/jaziimun As someone who has spent most of her life immersed in the literary from personal, private, to academic and professional circumstances, I still find it difficult most days to have a conversation with someone else in literature where it feels like play. By play, I mean the lighthearted ease of…

It was perhaps a strange choice to pick one of the larger texts in my Shelf Life list this year for the shortest month, but some perspective has been gained, and as always, literature finds its way into my reflection on the season of life I am currently moving through. Short verdict: On Beauty explores themes of…