Epigraphs
Last week I went through my entire personal library on the hunt for epigraphs. I was surprised to find that most books I own don't have any. Below you can see the results of my quest.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
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Wow! I didn't know epigraphs were so uncommon and it's made me want to look for one in my book.
Lol I think it's funny you moved from The Netherlands to London... I did just the opposite! What do you think of London? You should do a post on what you feel!
I was also wondering, what made you so interested in epigraphs that you went on the search?
Check out my poem about spring: http://olivia-savannah.blogspot.nl/2014/04/how-to-write-poem.html
I do so love epigraphs. I feel like they only ever really make sense after you read the book, for I am never sure what mindset to use when first reading the epigraph.
My all-time-favourite epigraph is from The Glass Menagerie. It's by e.e. Cummings, it reads "Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"
Of the epigraphs you posted, my favourite are those from Paper Towns. Because of that actually, my senior year in high school, during our poetry section I chose "Jack O'lantern" to critique and actually wrote and got a reply from Katrina herself! It provided great insight to the poem, and even more, to me, for Paper Towns. It's one thing to read and study a poem, it's another whole thing to have the author tell you why it's important to them.
This post made me so happy! It inspired me to hunt through my own bookshelf for epigraphs.
http://awayfromthesafeharbor.blogspot.com/2014/09/from-bookshelf-epigraphs.html
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