Hee, am I a book blogger? ;-) I've never felt official enough to be that, but thank you!
I'm realizing belatedly that I should have made clear in this post that some things aren't reflected on the year's favorites list only because they're rereads, so it felt unfair to give them a spot on my favorites list again – like Gaudy Night! Definite favorite!
And perhaps Rilke should have been on the favorites too... Goodness, Rilke is so thorny and difficult (especially to translate, oh my goodness) but it was fun to try to delve into some of his work again. I read him in college; more specifically, I did a translation theory project where I compared a few different translators of his work. (Though Mitchell wasn't one of the ones I looked at specifically; maybe I should look him up.) And the funny thing is that I too picked up Rilke again because of fic... I came across a Rilke quote in a Kate DiCamillo children's book, and incorporated the quote into a fic in Miss Fisher fandom, so I ended up looking at different Rilke translations again, in part to look for more that would relate to what I was writing, and decided while I was at it to read all of Sonnets to Orpheus, which I don't think I'd read in its entirety before.
And thank you for the rec! I'll look up Elizabeth Marie Pope.
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I'm realizing belatedly that I should have made clear in this post that some things aren't reflected on the year's favorites list only because they're rereads, so it felt unfair to give them a spot on my favorites list again – like Gaudy Night! Definite favorite!
And perhaps Rilke should have been on the favorites too... Goodness, Rilke is so thorny and difficult (especially to translate, oh my goodness) but it was fun to try to delve into some of his work again. I read him in college; more specifically, I did a translation theory project where I compared a few different translators of his work. (Though Mitchell wasn't one of the ones I looked at specifically; maybe I should look him up.) And the funny thing is that I too picked up Rilke again because of fic... I came across a Rilke quote in a Kate DiCamillo children's book, and incorporated the quote into a fic in Miss Fisher fandom, so I ended up looking at different Rilke translations again, in part to look for more that would relate to what I was writing, and decided while I was at it to read all of Sonnets to Orpheus, which I don't think I'd read in its entirety before.
And thank you for the rec! I'll look up Elizabeth Marie Pope.