Monthly Archives: October 2016

Inscription: Baby’s First Book

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Tietsu

Dear ____, This is a book. You may think it is a sandwich with words. It is not. It is something better. Do it right and they will take you everywhere. Still, feel free to eat it if you get … Continue reading →

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Alpha & Omega

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Tietsu

  “I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald 

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Book Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Tietsu

Initially, I wasn’t sure how well this book was going to work. It supposedly dealt with the same existential issues as Dandelion Wine, but simultaneously tells a story meant to inspire horror. Obviously, it’s possible, it’s just a tricky business … Continue reading →

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Pieces from the Novel #1: Neon Soul

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Tietsu

Watching the cabs fold into the horizon of the city, something squeezes me, knocking against the comfortable fog of the alcohol. I feel it, an uneasy melancholy begging to be let out, to be thought, considered, felt. I steel myself against … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Tietsu

I didn’t expect this book. Perhaps, more accurately it was Ray Bradbury I didn’t expect. Way back in school I had read a short story of his in some slim anthology of stories about I-don’t-know-what. What I do remember is … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Tietsu

There are a great many things to hate about high society and I’m not just saying that as a plebeian proletariat. From decadence to the disconnect they seem to feel with the rest of humanity, there is no shortage of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Tietsu

Have you ever had someone you love scream over while you try to explain away something a gossipy middle-aged women told her in your drawing room? No? Me neither. In fact, if someone that claimed to love me refused to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Tietsu

Plays are a tricky thing to my mind. You inexorably tied to the patience of the audience and thereby you are forbidden from going over a certain number of pages or overcomplicating your narrative. I’m struggled to find a playwrights … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Tietsu

This is an excellent book to start with if you are curious about the bombing of Hiroshima and have little historical context for it. As it stands though the book falls a bit flat on a historical narrative and instead … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Tietsu

I have a feeling that nothing Valente ever publishes will be what one would term as ‘bad’. Her grasp of language is too strong, it’s poetry too perfect. Evocative while rarely trending towards purple, she captures even the most basic … Continue reading →

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