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Oooooh. I didn't know you got to go to a meet and greet with Darren Criss. That's awesome!

I do if it's not a book I broke in. If it's something I get from a second hand shop, I'm ok with the rough around the edges look.

It's nice. Not so nice when you're translating Beowulf and reading it at the same time and you're like....I don't recognize this passage at all. A bit confusing.

I didn't respond to this? Psssh. Bad Woody.

Yeah, I probably did. I love her music so much. I'm always on the look out to see if she's touring. But, most of her tours are in cool places like Spain or Austria.

I just get really sad when mine get too beat up. Like, I'm reading the first Harry Potter at the moment for fun, and whoever borrowed it last broke the spine. *sigh*

Well, either way. He was a great poet. I don't think it's an accurate translation that he did of Beowulf, but it's one of the most beautifully written ones.

:D So pretty. There's an artist I love that puts some poetry to music, and this is one of her songs. I'm sure you heard of Loreena Mckennitt.

Yup! And I try and keep then in the best condition possible.

Really? So did I. I wrote on his sonnet sequence actually, the Glanmore Sonnets.

'Little other care hath she....' lol

I can do the first couple stanzas solidly, then I can do bits and pieces. I never set out to memorize it, otherwise I'd be golden.

Yes. I love that. But when they're pristine... That's book porn right there. The copies I have are in pretty great condition.

Also, I don't know if you've heard of him, but Seamus Heaney died today. Sad day for the poetry world.

That's my favorite Tennyson poem! Of course. :D I have at least the first couple of stanzas memorized just from rereading it.
Yah, I have a few old old books. I need more! They've got such character.

Tennyson <3 I told you that I have a book of his poetry from only a year after his death right? I love it. I also have an old copy of Idles of the King, but it has no date in it.

It depends. I don't think Dickens is dry. Tons of characters and a million things happening, but not too dry. I dunno. I like Victorian lit. More so though, I am a fan of Romantic poetry, which pretty much fizzles before Victorian times I guess.

Excellent! I hope it inspires you to watch the mini series too. The book was good though. I went out looking for it at the library. Hah. Yaaaah. No dice. Nabbed it at Barnes and Noble though.

Yes! And that's brilliant that you're reading that. The mini series is just. Uh. Mr. Thornton can brood and storm about my mill any day!

*whispers* I know...I don't have a mill. Shucks.

Your welcome^^