Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

Whoops, I miscounted – I’ve read ten more books since my last post for a while and yes I am counting a poetry chapbook even though it doesn’t have an ISBN…sue me though it does have an ISSN. Anyway, here’s my next ten books that I’ve been trying to devour as making it to sixty [...]

I don’t have much to say about this. A treasured friend, for god knows what reason, gave me her copy of this and it sure as hell meant as much to her reading it as it did to me. I read a few poems from it on LJ good poetry communities (you laugh, but LiveJournal, [...]

For some weird reason, when I lived in the Philippines at the age of four, my auntie, then a teenager bought me Oliver Twist. It had taken me three months to become fluent in Tagalog (and steal the cheesy romance comics she was addicted to for my own reading pleasure) and she bought me bloody [...]

Here’s another gem that’s been on my bookcase for a few years that I decided to read. I like to read plays and poetry when commuting as normally the books aren’t thick and therefore they’re very transportable. My partner said the title sounded familiar, did the playwright pinch it off Oasis’ song? Nooooo, quite the [...]

A good friend of mine, Chris lent this to me while I was up in Sydney at the beginning of the year and ordered me to take it, read it and send it back to him. Good friends with good books are indeed a fantastic thing. I’ve read a couple of translations of Sappho’s work [...]