Amanda Reads Poetry

swallowtheclouds:

I loved the fact that Liv made this guide–for those of you who want to start reading Murakami and don’t know where to start, I hope sharing this helps!

Beginner:
Norwegian Wood
Kafka on the Shore
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Intermediate:
After Dark
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Sputnik Sweetheart
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Dance Dance Dance

Advanced:
1Q84
Colorless
Hear the Wind Sing
Pinball, 1973

Short Stories:
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
After the Quake
The Elephant Vanishes

Trilogy of the Rat:
1. Hear the Wind Sing
2. Pinball, 1973
3. A Wild Sheep Chase
(4.) Dance Dance Dance

Miscellaneous:
The Strange Library

(via libraryjournal)

nationalbook:

The National Book Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of our first BookUp site for LGBTQ youth at The Hetrick-Martin Institute in NYC, an after-school center that creates a safe and supportive environmentfor LGBTQ youth, many of whom are homeless or otherwise at risk. BookUp is a reading club that emphasizes reading as both fun and interactive in order to improve students’ social/emotional skills along with their reading skills, and build the confidence necessary to become engaged citizens as adults. 

BookUp LGBTQ at Hetrick-Martin will be taught by award-winning poet and Cave Canem fellow, t'ai freedom ford. 

Kickass.