Anna Patrick's Blog, page 175

"Don’t fall in love with things or people; things break and people disappear."

“Don’t fall in love with things or people; things break and people disappear.”

- Jorge Luis Borges (via iamfawad)

My grungey wonderland

My grungey wonderland

Happy #FridayReads! Looking for some new books?You can enter to...

Happy #FridayReads! Looking for some new books?

You can enter to win #1 and #2 here, or #3 here on Instagram (just make sure you follow so I can DM you if you win!)

Full details on this post, ends 3/23! Good luck, and thanks to all who have entered so far.

"I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic..."

“I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.”

- Jorge Luis Borges, Book of Sand


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This picture is similar to one I saw a few years back, which inspired a lot of the forest imagery in my novel.

What are you in LA for? Have fun!!!!

Visiting @dressed-in-daydream for a much-needed girls weekend!

I think if I could only ask someone one question, it would be: what is your nightmare of choice?

I think if I could only ask someone one question, it would be: what is your nightmare of choice?

The Future Fire Reviews: Patrick, Meditations in Wonderland (2015)

The Future Fire Reviews: Patrick, Meditations in Wonderland (2015):

I wanted to share this with you all because I realized I haven’t yet, and it’s got to be my favorite review of my book I’ve read so far - because I feel like he really went deep and got closest to the heart of things of any I’ve read and I’m so appreciative.

A few excerpts of the review:

Of the books brought out in time for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,
Anna Patrick’s is the most intensely personal and deeply psychological
novel that I have seen. Patrick takes Carroll’s Journey through the
Belly of the Whale and emphasizes the shamanic potential of it such that
Elizabeth, the protagonist, goes through a confrontation with herself
with the intention—not necessarily conscious—of grappling with the
darkness within herself and resolving whatever issues she has had that
have resulted in her living a life in hiding behind the mask that she
has fashioned over the years. Carroll’s Alice has been important for her
since a child, and her Alice doll leads her on into the rabbit-hole and
through the various Stations of the Wonderland, abbreviated from the
sequence of places and events in the original novel.

What Elizabeth needs to transcend is the tendency towards
self-absorption that gets in the way of so many people’s ability to
really see and hear others, and once she allows this perception of
others to really register with her, she will also develop a strong,
solid sense of self at her emotional core.

Patrick is evidently familiar with the practice of lucid dreaming, as
revealed by Tweedledum’s statement that “you’ve woken up within the
dream. You’re both awake and dreaming. You’re creating everything around
you and playing out your own dream all at once” (80). A major struggle
that Elizabeth has is to realize her will through this dream, in which
she has only imperfect and intermittent control.

When I first read Anna Patrick’s Meditations in Wonderland, I was struck by R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self
and its exploration of the fragmented personality as a painfully
out-of-control and desperate, possibly suicidal, being; in going back
through it and looking at the artistry of the literary work, I am now
struck by the awareness of the visualization process and the
interference the unconscious, as Trickster, introjects into the product.
I wonder how many more layers this work may present, depending upon how
open the reader is in approaching the text!

You can also enter to win a signed copy of my book here, or here on Instagram (just make sure you follow so I can DM you if you win!)

The 25k Follower Giveaway Is Still Open!You can enter to win #1...

The 25k Follower Giveaway Is Still Open!

You can enter to win #1 and #2 here, or #3 here on Instagram (just make sure you follow so I can DM you if you win!)

Full details on this post, ends 3/23! Good luck, and thanks to all who have entered so far.

"Find someone who wants to invest in you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions and fall..."

“Find someone who wants to invest in you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions and fall in love with you daily.”

- (via deeplifequotes)