measureformeasure

list of my unread books so i finish them

  • sometimes u just have to make a catalogue. how do i have all these books. where did they come from. i am not allowed to get more.
    current progress: 2/37

    Started and stalled

    Plays:
    A Time to Die & A Time to Live, Eric Bentley
    The Bacchae of Euripides, Wole Soyinka
    Six tragedies of Seneca, trans. Emily Wilson

    Fiction
    Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
    Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
    Winter Harvest, Ioanna Papadopoulou
    The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi

    Poetry, etc.
    How to Be Queer
    Beowulf, trans. Maria Dahvana Headley
    Helen in Egypt, H. D.
    The Basic Eight, Daniel Handler

    Unread

    Plays
    Galileo, Bertolt Brecht
    Mother Courage and her Children, Bertolt Brecht
    The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht
    Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka
    Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux
    Trojan Women trans(?). Gwendolyn MacEwen & Helen and Orestes by Yannis Ritsos
    The Green Line, Makram Ayache
    21 Black Futures
    A working draft of a script from 2011 from an American playwright I found literally on the side of the road?

    Fiction
    A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    The Waves, Virginia Woolf
    House of Names, Colm Tóibín
    Outline, Rachel Cusk
    Held, Anne Michaels
    Motherthing, Ainslie Hogarth

    Nonfiction
    Brecht on Theatre, ed. Willett
    Towards a Poor Theatre, Jerzy Grotowski
    Miscellaneous book on ancient Greek theatre
    Truth and Repair, Judith Herman

    Poetry, short stories, and anthologies
    Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
    An extremely local short story collection
    Memorial, Alice Oswald
    Apollinaire’s Bestiary
    Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady, Clarice Lispector
    Glass and God, Anne Carson

    • 2 weeks ago 20 notes
    #june reads#i don't have a pinned so this is my pinned now. sorry that it's obnoxiously long but now i'll have to scroll past it every time i look at#my own blog.#june.txt
    apoemaday

  • [I aborted two daughters]

    by Diane Seuss

    I aborted two daughters, how do I know they were girls,
    a mother knows, at least one daughter, maybe one
    daughter and a son, will it hurt I asked the pre-abortion
    lady and she said, her eyes were so level, I haven’t been
    stupid enough to need to find out, cruel but she was right,
    I was and am stupid, please no politics, I’ve never gotten
    over it, no I don’t regret it, two girls with a stupid penniless
    mother and a drug-addict father, I don’t think so, I shot
    a rabbit once for food, I am not pristine, I am not good,
    I am in no way Jesus, I am in no way even the bad Mary
    let alone the good, though I have held my living son
    in the pietà pose, I didn’t know at the time I was doing it
    but now that I look back, he’d overdosed and nearly died,
    my heart, he said, his lips blue, don’t worry, I’ve paid.

    • 7 hours ago 148 notes
    #poetry
    measureformeasure

  • never gonna be someone who spends like $400 on any single accessory in this life & economy but i do want the mr jones the accurate watch. I want to be reminded of my mortality whenever I check the time

  • measureformeasure

    a light silver watch with \'remember\' on the hour hand and \'you will die\' on the minute hand with a red second handALT

    would like this please

    • 1 day ago 27 notes
    measureformeasure

  • never gonna be someone who spends like $400 on any single accessory in this life & economy but i do want the mr jones the accurate watch. I want to be reminded of my mortality whenever I check the time

    • 1 day ago 27 notes
    #june.txt
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