The Birdhouse

Currently Reading:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt (2022)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (2015)

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August 8
Babel by R.F. Kuang (2022)

July 12
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (2023)

July 3
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (2022) heart icon

June 28
Evocation by S.T. Gibson (2024)

June 24
Blackouts by Justin Torres (2023)

"But the mentions of Father in the paper increase, news of the work he's doing in Chicago, of his legendary life. Each new article like a shadow suddenly falling across her lap. And she feels rage, and thrill, and wonder."

June 16
Sorcery & Small Magics by Maiga Doocy (2024) heart icon

May 30
The Analog Sea Review: An Offline Journal No. 3 edited by Johnathan Simons (2020)

“No images leave you in peace: they all want something from you.”

May 23
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1956)

April 4
Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh (2007)

April 1
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh (2022)

March 13
Elegy IV by Rainer Maria Rilke (1915) heart icon

“And you, my parents, am I not right? You who loved me for that small beginning of my love for you from which I always shyly turned away, because the distance in your features grew, changed, even while I loved it, into cosmic space where you no longer were.”

February 19
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)

February 6
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956) heart icon

“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”

January 30
Shame by Salmon Rushdie (1983)

January 23
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956) heart icon

“I will be the chief European's boy. The dog of a king is a king of dogs.”

January 14
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (1980)

January 11
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)

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November 10
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Mirii and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1977)

October 21
Sizwe Banzi is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona (1972)
The Island by Athol Fugard (1973)

October 2
Upstream by Mary Oliver (2016)

September 29
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams (2012) heart icon

"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."

September 24
Fate of a Cockroach by Tawfik Al-Hakim (1966)

June 24
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (2021) heart icon

"What a blessing it is to be breathing on a breathing planet.
What a blessing to be Earth loving Earth."

June 2
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) heart icon

“He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach.”

May 27
Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico (2023) heart icon

"I don't know why you need so much for the story to be true.
The important thing is that it exists, no?"

May 10
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (2012)