Danada’s Comments (group member since Nov 22, 2019)

Danada’s comments from the Reading Rainbow group.

thanks for all the great recommendations!

( love Becky Chambers! new stuff of hers coming soon!)

:laughing:

Eva wrote: "... Netflix show: Can I say The Clone Wars? It's not on Netflix anymore, but they did season 6 of it ..."

Seems legit to me.

I was torn between Stranger Things and Jericho - and Jericho was a CBS show I think? only I don't get television so I watched it on Netflix...

BookishCrab wrote: "... or dancing about the house like a male stripper to music ..."

oh my gosh :laughing: I missed this - it's so great - you two are a hoot!

Bookishnymph *needs hea* wrote: "Gotta love blanket fort days. ;D"

yeah! or... entire weekends! shhhh! don't tell anyone!

First name (optional): Danada
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: brown with copper highlights (there may be some gray .. all right, there is some gray)
Zodiac sign: Aries 🐏 ♈

What's Your favorite:

Band/singer: I have favorite songs/pieces/performers all across the spectrum (Bossa Nova, Jazz, kids music, various flavors of metal, musicals, '80s rock, '50s Rock n Roll, classical, country, pop, opera, World Music, instrumental, etc) but not a particular group or performer
Movie: either the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries or the 1971 Persuasion miniseries
Genre of book: space opera/fantasy
Non-alcoholic drink: birch beer
Alcoholic drink: Scotch 🥃
Netflix show: Stranger Things
Color: Green
Place in nature: Rocky coastlines
Time of day: Early morning
Food: cheese pizza/my homemade vegetarian taco casserole
Guilty pleasure: blanket fort days

yes! I miss the like/love/funny/interesting/etc! It would be so nice :D

:nods emphatically:

BookishCrab wrote: "I just started it--hope you enjoy it!"

I haven't had a chance to really read much/get into it, but even in the first few pages you really get a sense of the characters. I have to say even though we haven't seen much of her yet I really like Felicity. Also, I'm learning things :D I've never heard of the Amatory Novel genre - it sound like great fun (if a bit risqué).

The dad is an absolute beast though! threatening to break glasses and not allowing reading at the breakfast table!? I mean, really!! an absolute BEAST!

It arrived!!

@BookishCrab & Bookishnymph

waiting impatiently for it to arrive! Was hoping today!

I've requested this on on Borrow Direct so hopefully I can start next week :)

Bookishnymph *needs hea* wrote: " It's been out for a while now and now there's a waiting list! ;P"


hahaha! there is always a waiting list ;-p

when it comes back maybe?

Gender Gatekeeping Comic:
http://geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=...

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia looks interesting: "A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above"

I think it is much more common in SF than fantasy.

Found this cool article on the web:
https://theillustratedpage.net/divers...

Fantasy/SF! ٩(⁎❛ᴗ❛⁎)۶

but actually anything would be good

oooh! I love that! I particularly love how the tail is wrapped around their legs ^_^

Bookishnymph *needs hea* wrote: "a weird ass translation that was choppy and hard to follow . . .might be because it was in a used bookstore and is so super old I can't even find it on the internet. So maybe that was why?"

Another possibility for the choppiness that you expericenced is that most of what we have left of her work are fragments. She was supposed to have been very prolific - writing about 10,000 lines of poetry, of which only about 650 lines still exist (have been found/preserved?), and of that just one!! poem – the "Ode to Aphrodite" – is complete, and more than half of the original lines survive in around ten more fragments. Many of the surviving fragments of Sappho contain only a single word!!!

I didn't realize we had so little left until I just did a bit of research. It helps put what I was reading about Bliss Carman's Sappho poems make more sense. He probably incorporated all the existing poetry by Sappho and then imagined what the poems might be like based on what we do have and what we know about her and her poetry.

I’m reading Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman.

from wikipedia: Carman's method "apparently, has been to imagine each lost lyric [of Sappho] as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable flavor of the translation is maintained throughout, though accompanied by the fluidity and freedom of purely original work."

it seems more to be inspired be Sappho and her poetry than a translation.

Sappho is sort of a symbol for love and desire between women, and many of these poems reflect that.