tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post5466255755622097916..comments2023-09-07T10:40:00.762+01:00Comments on Stranger Worlds: Edmund // Sonnets and the Sea Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-78660705415880107652016-08-09T22:02:57.902+01:002016-08-09T22:02:57.902+01:00Aww, thank you, Tracey! I guess after such nice co...Aww, thank you, Tracey! I guess after such nice comments (and the fact you read six of my posts in one day!) I can probably forgive you ....<br /><br />I love him too! <3 I've not heard of that book, but anything to do with Rom and Jul has my attention!<br /><br />You are a babe! <3Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-83562643866482371512016-08-09T03:41:47.291+01:002016-08-09T03:41:47.291+01:00EMILYYYYYYY. Your writing has this delicious FLAVO...EMILYYYYYYY. Your writing has this delicious FLAVOR to it, like it's almost something I can sink my teeth into and taste. <3 I love this piece. (I don't think I read the one from another perspective. Shameful. But I'm restricting myself to catching up on your most recent posts today, so it will have to wait.)<br /><br />Edmund is such a darling! I love him already. And I also love that last bit about introverts just escaping the presence of other people. XD<br /><br />At the beginning, this piece reminded me of a sweet little juvenile book I read earlier this year, "The Romeo and Juliet Code" by Phoebe Stone. :)<br /><br />Anyway, you are a fabulous writer!Tracey Dyckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03445222618456673198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-13445697382180083922016-08-08T21:44:01.648+01:002016-08-08T21:44:01.648+01:00Isn't it?! That was the first time I was reall...Isn't it?! That was the first time I was really like SHAKESPEARE WAS A PERSON. Obviously I loved him before -- because Rom and Jul and Macbeth and Hamlet -- but I thought of him more as just a general genius, not so much a man; whereas reading that I just felt SO strongly his humanity. Like, he lay in bed and thought about someone. How often have I done that too?! Gah. That's probably what prompted this piece. The commonality of literature.<br /><br />So odd. I can't imagine writing not fuelled by tea. Remarkable.<br /><br />ME TOO!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-83309060882979470442016-08-07T00:25:16.871+01:002016-08-07T00:25:16.871+01:00I had to go read 27. It's really good! I rathe...I had to go read 27. It's really good! I rather like that one now.<br /><br />It is really odd thinking that Shakespeare never had a cup of tea. Ever.<br /><br />Edatrice! Love it! :)a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-24777084409514878402016-08-04T22:22:00.362+01:002016-08-04T22:22:00.362+01:00Aww, you're a babe, thank you so much!
EXACTL...Aww, you're a babe, thank you so much!<br /><br />EXACTLY. Books as objects are so so interesting. Hence why I never want an ereader. <br /><br />So true. In a lot of the sonnets he's like, even when I'm gone they'll remember you, which of course hasn't happened, because we remember him, and not the subject. Which I guess he knew. Ugh, I just love them so much, though! My fave being Sonnet 27. <br /><br />I properly love how you went and looked that up XD OK, so, 1658. Shakey died in 1616. So there you go. ~nods wisely~<br /><br />Thank you for all the love! I do not know those lines well but yes! I really feel like that sometimes. You cannot be bothered dealing with someone else's emotions .... I recently saw a live stream of a London production of Rom and Jul starring Lily James and Richard Madden and Derek Jacobi. It was directed by Kenneth Branagh and it was WONDERFUL. It reminded me all over again why I love that play SO MUCH.<br /><br />BOOK ROMANCES = THE BEST. ~cough cough~ Corem ~cough cough~ PS ship name for these two: Edatrice! How good does that sound?!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-52018938809592285882016-08-04T22:01:04.793+01:002016-08-04T22:01:04.793+01:00Thank you! You are so kind. I don't know that ...Thank you! You are so kind. I don't know that song but I'll look it up :)Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-28601215560674738782016-08-04T21:55:44.613+01:002016-08-04T21:55:44.613+01:00Waves and words definitely bring them together, bu...Waves and words definitely bring them together, but I am SO glad you think they have different voices! It is so important, but so DIFFICULT, to maintain both your distinctive writer voice, but also separate character voices. Sometimes I worry all mine sound the same >.< So thanks, Blue! <3Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-32927382054247329522016-08-04T21:43:19.500+01:002016-08-04T21:43:19.500+01:00As am I!
That sounds lovely. Summer is the best f...As am I!<br /><br />That sounds lovely. Summer is the best for reading and writing outside <3Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-26229729028519519902016-08-04T20:16:22.811+01:002016-08-04T20:16:22.811+01:00Me too :') The Edmund storyline is so sweet an...Me too :') The Edmund storyline is so sweet and calm. The other three, his siblings, are all really angsty/heartbreaking, so Edmund is such a relief! I'm glad you liked it, Ely <3Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-28649848735495034122016-07-30T05:50:26.514+01:002016-07-30T05:50:26.514+01:00Are you kidding me? LDKFJALFJ OF COURSE, I SHIP TH...Are you kidding me? LDKFJALFJ OF COURSE, I SHIP THEM!<br /><br />I love, love this so much. I don't even know what to do with myself. <br /><br />"In the bruised paperback he felt a thousand lives were dwelling." I love this line. It's exactly what I love about secondhand books, especially old, old books. I love imagining the lives of the people who've read it, how it affected them, what they were going through in life at the time, etc. It's like the book wears stories in its crinkles and stains and torn bits. But real stories about ordinary readers like us. <br /><br />I like how you talk about how Shakespeare is also so present in his own sonnets, "as if Shakespeare had left them out, beneath a window, and gone to make some tea." A good handful of his sonnets speak about how the subject of his poems shall live on forever in the written word and shall be immortalized and yet he was also immortalizing himself too. <br /><br />Tea? Of course it was around in the sixteenth century! Uh, wouldn't it be? I have difficulty imagining a time before tea. It just feels like one of those things that has always been. Like this is what God and Adam talked over in Eden before the Fall. Okay, I've got to look this up. BRB!<br /><br />Okay, so the first historical reference to tea was around the 3rd century AD in China. Although there is an ancient legend in China about the creation of tea which according to legend took place in 2737 BC? Yeah. . . But basically, tea was around in Asia long before it became popular in Europe and the fist mention of tea in Britain was an advertisement in a London paper in 1658 or something like that. At that time it was called China Drink and apparently Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that he had tried some. <br /><br />Ahem, back to topic.<br /><br />"all of them rose around him like a host of wraiths from the ocean, and the sea's music was the music of poetry" I love this line too. I can really see it and I like how he connects the book with all these previous people, especially his family since he's living away, who've read it before him.<br /><br />That whole second to last about paragraph about talking and, ugh, why would you want to do that? And meetings between shy and misanthropic people. I LOVE THAT PARAGRAPH SO MUCH! I WANT TO HUG IT! I relate so much to Beatrice, and Edmund. The part where she leaves and he's partly glad for it makes me think of that line in Romeo and Juliet when Benvolio said:<br />"I- measuring his affections by my own,<br />Which then most sought where most might not be found,<br />Being one too many by my weary self-<br />Pursu'd my humour, not pursuing his, <br />And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me."<br /><br />I love that line! Is that awful? <br /><br />"But he did regret not knowing what she'd been reading." Thew perfect last line!<br /><br />a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-48259825351238530252016-07-20T16:47:52.113+01:002016-07-20T16:47:52.113+01:00Your writing is just whats the word... gorgeous. T...Your writing is just whats the word... gorgeous. This whole scene reminded me of the song Ophelia by The Lumineers. For obvious reasons of course.Skye Hofferthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385765274513034927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-16382955853466279232016-07-19T19:09:46.493+01:002016-07-19T19:09:46.493+01:00I like this idea of revisiting a scene/character/e...I like this idea of revisiting a scene/character/etc, but from a different perceptive. I notice Edmund's perspective is similar to Beatrice's in their love of the waves and words, but there's still something that sets them apart. <br /><br />Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08760994961683034493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-72490324688389264642016-07-19T04:26:14.998+01:002016-07-19T04:26:14.998+01:00I'm glad to see more of Edmund! I'm becom...I'm glad to see more of Edmund! I'm becoming more and more attached this family. <br /><br />One of my favorite places to read is outside in the yard under a nice shady tree - good time of year for it!Lauren Stoolfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777860030600932061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-20134438064096748002016-07-18T17:37:04.029+01:002016-07-18T17:37:04.029+01:00I have a soft spot for the name Edmund... :) this ...I have a soft spot for the name Edmund... :) this sounds really sweet and cozy and gives me the same feelings certain books from my childhood give me...would love to read more of this! I am all for bookworm characters (also ginger characters, being one myself...) elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08338140927446963972noreply@blogger.com