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Casey wants to read 'Pure Colour'

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:50:34 -0700

Casey wants to read Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

Casey Kiser liked a quote by Sheila Heti

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:49:55 -0700

Casey Kiser liked a quote

�� We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. �� Sheila Heti

Casey added 'The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic'

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:38:33 -0700

Casey gave 5 stars to The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic (Hardcover) by Michael Sims
bookshelves: nonfiction
Delightful insight on how E.B. eased into his fascination with animals and won over our hearts with the timeless classic, Charlotte's Web. 'Gradually, in early childhood, Elwyn became aware that animals were actors themselves, living their own busy lives, not merely background characters in his own little drama.' -pg. 17

'There were secretive animals in Elwyn's life as well. His many childhood illnesses included hay fever and other allergies. Once, while he was sick in bed, a fearless young house mouse not only visited him in his bedroom but proved interested enough to this large but quiet neighbor to gradually become a tamed pet. Elwyn supplied him a house and watched rapt as the mouse explored with its tiny paws and turned its dark eyes to look at him. He even taught him several tricks.' -pg. 12

I really enjoyed learning about how his connection with creatures affected him in a unique way as a bridge to human relationships. In particular, with Katharine Angell, who was his co-worker and editor at The New Yorker, and to whom he wrote a love letter that likened his love for her to the loyalty of a spider weaving its web. The poem is 'Natural History'.

'Over three decades of his life, he had spent more time watching spiders than he had experiencing romance. Now, with the easy acceptance of anthropomorphism he had learned in his childhood, he used one to see the other more clearly.' -pg. 117

The pictures are wonderful, including Katharine holding pigs that inspired the character of Wilbur and even a peek at the first page of his first draft of the book! Recommended!

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Casey wants to read 'The Extraterrestrial Presence'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:43:01 -0700

Casey wants to read The Extraterrestrial Presence by Andrew Buckner

Casey wants to read 'BROADCASTING FROM THE END OF THE WORLD: POEMS AND TALES'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:42:28 -0700

Casey wants to read BROADCASTING FROM THE END OF THE WORLD: POEMS AND TALES by Andrew Buckner

Casey added 'Alien Buddha Zine #73: black and white print'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:40:11 -0700

Casey gave 4 stars to Alien Buddha Zine #73: black and white print (Paperback) by Alien Buddha
bookshelves: poetry, fiction
4 stars because I discovered Andrew Buckner's 'Blue Bird Glass Pieces'.

Casey wants to read 'Come What May'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:38:47 -0700

Casey wants to read Come What May by Andrew Buckner

Casey wants to read 'Slut Vomit 2: An Anthology of Sex Work'

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:52:06 -0700

Casey wants to read Slut Vomit 2: An Anthology of Sex Work by Paige Johnson

Casey Kiser liked a userstatus

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:51:31 -0700

Casey Kiser liked Paige Johnson's status update

Paige Johnson is 78% done with Slut Vomit 2: Lots of people would be surprised to know plenty of sex workers are introverted or asexual the other 95% of their day. They compartmentalize their e-bait advertising for the freedom of a flexible or even anti-social schedule��

Casey is on page 52 of 146 of My Body and I Share the S

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:49:32 -0700

Casey Kiser is on page 52 of 146 of My Body and I Share the Same Name.
Casey wrote: I am attacked in the night
by the notion that I am human.
I exist and breathe
and swallow saliva as a habit.