Well what's to be done I'll go away askance into the 16th century through the quotes over here

[sovay]

Delightful surprise of the week: visiting the brick-and-mortar office of Červená Barva Press in the basement of the Somerville Armory and discovering that not only do they sell their own books, like the chapbook of Aleksei Kruchonykh's libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun (1913, trans. Larissa Shmailo 1980/2014) I had originally contacted the publisher about, they are a really lovely tiny used book store. My mother left with Gene Stratton-Porter's The Harvester (1911), Inez Haynes Irwin's Maida's Little School (1926), and Frances Hodgson Burnett's Robin (1922), all first editions—jacketless, but in otherwise quite respectable condition; the first two are books from her childhood and the third neither of us had ever heard of, so fingers crossed it's not terrible. I walked out with Barbara Helfgott Hyett's In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1986) and the Signet paperback of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me, Deadly (1952), which I did not buy solely for its cover, but you must admit it helps. I am enjoying Victory Over the Sun. skygiants showed me the first three episodes of Underground (2016–) last night and I want a soundtrack album. I have returned unhappily to a state of not so much sleeping, but being awake is always better with good art.

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[gwynnega]

Yay for the used bookstore discovery!

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, oh, Robin! It's one of Burnett's novels for grown-ups, and actually it's the second in a duology, though it can be read on its own since the first bit summarizes a lot of the previous book.

But if you want the other, it's The Head of the House of Coombe, and last time I checked it was available at the Gutenberg Project.

Those two are among my favorites of her work; she wrote quite a few books that no one has heard of any more. Among other things, they're a fascinating look at England just prior to, and during, the Great War. Be warned, they're very anti-German.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

It's lovely discovering places like that. Both the Spillane and Kruchonykh have great covers.

ETA: where's the subject line from? Veirs or "Victory Over The Sun"?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

[personal profile] skygiants showed me the first three episodes of Underground (2016–) last night and I want a soundtrack album

As far as I know, there is not an official one, but I made one on 8tracks (http://8tracks.com/brigdh/underground-soundtrack) (assuming that's a site that works for you). I love the music the producers chose!