In October 2016, she released the bestselling poetry collection Pillow Thoughts. Courtney has been writing her whole life and currently writes young adult novels and poetry collections. In February 2017, she released her second novel, Keeping Long Island. In August 2017, she published Pillow ...
Yukinari: A pillow book? Shonagon: I write down my thoughts, observations and little poems. I write about birds, trees, all sorts of things, many trivia. Yukinari: Well and people? Life in the palace? Shonagon: Of course I write about my life and, that is, palace life. Yukinari: Such...
Let me know if you have thoughts! 3 Outliers I wanted to make mention of three books I didn’t categorize above as they were three of my favorites this year and include two I wouldn’t normally have picked up. One, The Wild Iris, is an incredible book of poetry that uses flowers ...
If this book flops, if the words written never make it inside the covers of a paperback, will I get a chance at a rebirth, like The Rock’s character Spencer onBallers,whose invincibility makes him keep coming back from numerous failed business ventures? And yes, I did watch all five se...
The “Pillow Book” from which the movie takes its title is “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon,” the diaristic collection of anecdotes, observations, poetry and lists by a lady-in-waiting to Empress Sadako of Japan in the Heian era (the book was composed around 1000 AD). Shōnagon’s ...