Taylor Swift's Quill Lyrics

Book Riot recommends '12 Standout YA Standalone Sci-Fi Books' and one of them is

Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne 

Are you ready for a Jane Eyre retelling…in space?! Stella lives aboard a spaceship orbiting an uninhabitable Earth. She has dreams of leaving her ship and going anywhere else — so when she’s given a chance to be a governess aboard a private ship, she eagerly accepts. It’s aboard the Rochester that she meets Captain Hugo and sparks fly. The more Stella learns about a potential plot to kill Hugo, the more she becomes suspicious of his true role aboard the Rochester. (Kate Krug)

NME (and many others) report Taylor Swift's approach to lyrics.

Swift went on to describe how she writes lyrics, explaining she breaks them down into three distinct genre categories – “quill”, “fountain pen” and “glitter gel” – based on which writing implement she imagines having in her hand when writing them down.

“Quill” lyrics, she said, are songs written if the words and phrasings used are “antiquated”, if she was “inspired to write it after reading Charlotte Brontë or after watching a movie where everyone is wearing poet shirts and corsets”. Swift went on to recite a section of lyrics from ‘Ivy’, taken from 2020’s ‘Evermore’, as an example of such lyrics. (Alex Gallagher)

Volume One features the 1934 book So Stood I by Jane Culver.

 In 1934, a book was released in New York that caused quite a stir in the Eau Claire community.

So Stood I by Jane Culver was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1934. Culver, who was known as Mary Jane in Eau Claire circles, spent the first 18 years of her life in the city. [...]

It took her four years to write So Stood I. She said that many Eau Claire residents might recognize themselves in the book, but I never could find any accounts of people who did so. 

This was her first novel, which she wrote using the stream-of-consciousness method made famous by James Joyce. The title of the book was taken from one of Emily Brontë’s poems. (Diana Peterson)

The poem is My Comforter.

'Fall, leaves, fall' by Emily Brontë is one of 40 Instagram captions for autumn shared by Distractify.