Book Lists: Sample My Favorite Fiction

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Here are some of my favorite fiction books…just a taste.

Ulysses by James Joyce

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

This Side of Paradise by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Their Eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Fall by Albert Camus

Drive by James Sallis

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I will be posting more lists soon. Expect a Summer 2017 Book List which will include books I want to read this summer with a follow up at the end of the summer on which books I read and my reflection on them.

If you are reading this Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing! I hope you return in the future!

-Alina

Writing Fiction: My First Novel

Publication: Sand and Sky Launch Party

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Yesterday I attended Rumi Poetry Club’s, Sand and Sky Launch Party. It was a fun event that included many key speakers who are prevalent poets in Utah. I want to say Thank You to Rumi Poetry Club for publishing my poem, Climbing up the Wasatch Mountains, and I would also like to thank my boyfriend, Dallas, who kindly took photos for the event.

Here is a link to the anthology on amazon available for purchase!

Sand and Sky: poems from Utah

Free Hand #9

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

In the night

My mind spins. Blood boils, oh boiling not in rage. Not in peace, oh why why.

The sun shines. Shining and sweet against the flesh. 

How the blood runs cold. In the night. Your eyes bury themselves. Into your skin. Into your body. Why cold, why now?

Ramblings, into the darkness. The eyes are here watching us all go off into the night.

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If you’re reading this, thank you for taking time out of your day to read my writing. I hope you return in the future! 

-Alina

Notebook Excerpts #3 (April 2017)

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Here are some excerpts from my April 2017 notebook!

key: pieces are separated by a ‘+’

 

How I bled.

Let it fall down, marble the cold sky. And the clouds are fat. FAT. in the meat of the sky. What are the words that break each other up and out, down and inside it all? How death becomes a reality eventually, for all of us.

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Your sky buries itself down into the hell of my sky.

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and the words open themselves, combine and dive into the hell of the mind. How I drew up and deconstructed the poison of my hell.

Hell, or purgatory.

and there is no quiet heart destroyed by the endlessness. No quiet heart explodes and climbs up up up…

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All that I know buried against the sun. My blood returns cold and

crisp against the bitterness of one heart. Heart. Into another. What now? How does it relate to the cold? personage of a destroyed world. All my eyes bleed. Across my mouth the night climbs and buries itself. cold. cold against the sun.

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Sickness in my gut

light shine too bright,

poetry

writing about poetry

it all blossoms with death.

Death.

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Destruction is the key to the endless heart of it all. And I fade quietly into nothing cold and calm.

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All over the world, the bits and pieces destroy each other.

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The edge of my mind held me close to the edge of the night. All I do is dive into nothing the world follows me into nothing. All I seek, is doom in fire. Let go and crumble into the sky the edge is here and let go you never destroyed the edge of the night but embraced it.

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Guitar, guitar

carpet/floor

heater, book case, bookcase,

bookcases. laptop

just kidding.

window window

lamp.

prison, prison,

prison.

 

If you are reading this, Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing! I hope you return in the future!

-Alina