Maeve Binchy: Läste jag förr. Minns att jag tyckte om I Blodbokens skugga. Huset på Tara Road är en annan bok som jag läste och tyckte om
Tana French: Till skogs, en spännande bok skriven av en skicklig författare
Marian Keyes: Hon har skrivit många böcker är lättsamma och som man bara slukar: T ex Å andra sidan och Är det någon där?
Bram Stoker: Hans bok Dracula läste jag under de tidigare tonåren. Jag älskade den! Men måste medge att det var lite svårare att somna ett tag på kvällen.
Jonathan Swift: Gullivers resor läste vi på gymnasiet och jag minns att jag tyckte om den. Jag minns också hur vi diksuterade den och att det var första gången som jag diskuterat en bok på det sättet.
William Butler Yeats: Han har skrivit många dikter som jag tycker om. Men eftersom det är St. Patricks day så får hans dikt To Irleland in the coming times avsluta detta inlägg.
TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES
by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
NOW, that I would accounted be
True brother of a company
That sang, to sweeten Ireland's wrong,
Ballad and story, rann and song;
Nor be I any less of them,
Because the red-rose-bordered hem
Of her, whose history began
Before God made the angelic clan,
Trails all about the written page.
When Time began to rant and rage
The measure of her flying feet
Made Ireland's heart begin to beat;
And Time bade all his candles flare
To light a measure here and there;
And may the thoughts of Ireland brood
Upon a measured quietude.
Nor may I less be counted one
With Davis, Mangan, Ferguson,
Because, to him who ponders well,
My rhymes more than their rhyming tell
Of things discovered in the deep,
Where only body's laid asleep.
For the elemental creatures go
About my table to and fro,
That hurry from unmeasured mind
To rant and rage in flood and wind;
Yet he who treads in measured ways
May surely barter gaze for gaze.
Man ever journeys on with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
Ah, faeries, dancing under the moon,
A Druid land, a Druid tune!
While still I may, I write for you
The love I lived, the dream I knew.
From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye;
And we, our singing and our love,
What measurer Time has lit above,
And all benighted things that go
About my table to and fro,
Are passing on to where may be,
In truth's consuming ecstasy,
No place for love and dream at all;
For God goes by with white footfall.
I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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*tummen up* Oh, Ireland, my Ireland!!
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