Tag: book review

• The Unseen Poems by Rumi

  Last night I was reading from the poetry book The Unseen Poems by Rumi, the fourth collection of poetry that I have of his…Each from different translators. This is the one for those who enjoy a traditional setting, well-paced rhythm with some words that stand out, variations on the ghazal form of poetry, ones that […]

  09/30/2022 12:10 pm

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• Short Stories from Ancient Places

  The book of short stories I’ve been reading is closed and ready to return to the library, or at least it is finished for me for now…I also want to write a short story. 🙂 If you like the genre and maybe don’t always know where to look for short fiction, here is an overview […]

  09/21/2022 7:08 pm

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• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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• Poetry Books: Goldenrod and The Book of Love, and More

  

  The title poem of Goldenrod by Maggie Smith reminds me of my time as a very novice student of nature last year. And I’m not purposely or only picking gold-colored things for the blog :), but I won’t outright deny a gold-colored thing for variety either. My brief reflection of the book: Goldenrod by Maggie Smith (2021): […]

  09/07/2022 6:38 pm

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• It’s An Old Scottish Custom book review

  

  (feat. photo my cat, Peeko lounging like a classy lion with the book about to be reviewed…) *-.-_o-* + As for symbols, I just am really intrigued with this kind of art; it may just happen… (Post Title art made with symbols) … …now onto the book review of It’s An Old Scottish Custom by […]

  07/29/2022 4:13 pm

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• Many a Thing…(A Trip to the Antiques Shop)

  

  Tues. Apr. 12, 2022 photo from Tues., Apr. 5th—“Pants by Peeko 🐱,” a perfectly good hemming this time, Peeko helping on his own when I got the pants ready (just ‘loungewear’, shown in previous post.) He was proud of both the task and his own joke: sitting like this holding the pants in place and […]

  04/15/2022 8:56 am

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• More Poems and Even More Poems, Bringing Out the Purple Wizards…with Jason Preu

  

  📰Fresh off my Goodreads Press, the poetry book whose title and cover had been hidden by the first book on my coffee table, for suspense, included with that first one generously as complimentary bonus book by author—revealed now that it’s read, my introductory thoughts about the book: More Poems about Purple Wizards and Neon-Bright Exceptionalisms […]

  04/04/2022 1:10 pm

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• Happy Poetry Month, Gothic Novel Read, Poetry Collection by Jason Preu

  

  two books by Jason Preu upon table, morningtime, captured within bright flashes of sun After I’d completed reading a new poetry book from author Jason Preu, one I’d picked to read first, The Avocado Among Other Fruits and wrote down my immediate impressions, I realized then it is April 1st and so begins Poetry Month! […]

  04/01/2022 12:49 pm

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• An Island Novel I’d Read And My 1 Minute Impromptu Play About Writing Poetry

  

  my cat Peeko was sure to get to it first This is the first novel I’d read (titled The House at the Edge of Night), which combined mainly southern Italian characters with some British ones, as in a British man gets swept up onto the coast of this remote Italian island, Castellamare, during wartime. I’d […]

  03/17/2022 8:42 am

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• I Adore…

  

  Most recent poet found with random book taken off shelf, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop fit in perfectly with the ‘Sagittarian Invasion’ artists on the blog recently told of…following Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (same sign: Austen turned 246 earth yrs on Dec. 16; Waldrop turned 89 on Dec. 11) what I thought… […]

  12/31/2021 9:47 pm

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• Little Stories from My Week: Black Book Untold, Your New Project Manager, and a Dream Unremembered…

  

  Black Book Untold You might’ve seen a solid black book appear in some photos in a post. That book was not intentionally kept secret, but I completed the book and here’s a quick review with plenty of suspense for anyone who may want to read a new novel or even hear about one I just […]

  12/08/2021 8:39 pm

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• My Fun Critique of The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani, First Novel in English by An Arab-American Author

  

  November 2021 *~ It is Sunday and I’d received the news yesterday that Britney Spears is free! 🎉🥳🎉from her conservatorship!! I was so happy to see this! and I’ve also been recently doing well myself. I’d been in recent months following Britney’s story and IG posts as a contemporary one similar to the poet May […]

  11/14/2021 10:47 am

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• There, A Rare Photo

  

  Jan. 9, 2022 I have a conclusion! I believe May is the woman sitting in the front holding the baby. I looked through her other photos and noticed a beauty mark near her smile that shows in some photos…and the woman in the front shows the same! Also, May is looking away in most of […]

  10/25/2021 10:00 am

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• Poet Byron with The Moon

  

  Byron might like his book and the moon together… My reflective review apart from my moonlit window: These are poems to soak up and drink in, beautifully somber and purely light, with repeating motifs in the “Fragment” poems and “Stanzas For Music” poems, perhaps going along nicely with French Classical composer Gabriel Fauré’s piece “Romances […]

  10/18/2021 8:51 pm

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• Neverwhere, A Reflective Review (Which Keeps Surprises Hidden For Those Finding The Book Anew)

  

  This is the second book I’ve read by the author, after finding Stardust many years ago and reading that one more than once. I recommend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman to readers who enjoy fantasy and magical realist novels with plenty of humor, dabs of philosophy, and absurdity; this one would be best for adult or […]

  10/02/2021 1:00 pm

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• Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings

  

  Hearing my audio poems; sometimes he’s a very fluffy bunny, and sometimes a slightly violent teddybear. Peeko’s Moon and a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Truly Wise Book of Poems Over the weekend, Peeko sat by the book The Moon Before Morning like ’Read me more of these poems; it’s my moon!’ He is a Scorpio. […]

  09/13/2021 1:08 pm

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• Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra, Stories to Show You This Life as They Drift You Away

  

  Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra contains some of the finest short fiction I’ve read, a genre of which I am most selective when it comes to favorites and I don’t read often, yet these stories invite the reader in with glimmering prose poetry and curiosity about the many facets of everyday life, stories grounded in […]

  09/07/2021 4:10 pm

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• The Lost Girl

  

  Good afternoon, I didn’t know if I would really go away. 😊But I did. And I am back now to tell you about a novel I’ve completed that I’d mentioned before I left, The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence, and I won’t spoil plot or suspense for readers. I’d just recently found the novel in […]

  09/05/2021 3:32 pm

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• You May Now Have a Strawberry and Hand-Picked Poetry

  

  6:32 pm: Tuesday’s note actually appears There it is, the strawberry I’d offered you that is now ripe and ready to eat; the plants are safely secured, not swinging in a possible storm, and it happens to have two other surprise strawberries with it to ripen later—Here, enjoy it! And this is my review I’d […]

  08/24/2021 6:32 pm

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• The Faery Queene Book I, My Reflective Review

  

  It’s been a nice afternoon moment of rest with a cup of rose tea & reaching the end of this book today… An epic poem written in the 1500s by the English author Edmund Spenser which contains a nice blend of sometimes ‘opposing’ beliefs or folk cultures. It’s written in Early Modern English and reading […]

  07/28/2021 9:44 pm

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• The House at Riverton, Part Magical, Mostly Realistic, And A Little Experimental

  

  the sunset the other night Yesterday I finished reading the novel The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, which was just the novel I would’ve liked to read at the time and I’ve written about it today, so you may know if it’s a book you may like to read too. I haven’t spoiled any […]

  07/04/2021 8:01 am

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• When Summer Begins You Can Win a Book of Poetry

  

  I would like to say hello to new readers and to anyone who’s been reading awhile. On the blog, you can win this poetry book for free! I received an extra copy of it when my first missing one had turned up in my mailbox, and it was a happy surprise; now you can be […]

  06/16/2021 10:07 am

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• Some Literary Criticism: Marquez

  

  Are you trying to spoil me? Rose syrup and a rose sky to go with it. 🙂 * Over the weekend, I finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a favorite book now as the first time I’d read it long ago I didn’t get it as much but knew […]

  06/07/2021 7:57 am

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• Cecil & Noreen by Patrick Corcoran

  You might remember the last post I wrote about Last Light Breaking, the first novel I read by Patrick Corcoran, which I enjoyed very much. Since then, I read his second novel titled Cecil & Noreen, Cecil being the main character’s son from the first book, and Noreen, his wife. Set in the year 1999 […]

  03/08/2012 2:33 pm

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• Last Light Breaking

  In his first novel, Last Light Breaking, which begins with the line, “I am old.  I am old.  I sit in my pyjama trousers, cold,”  Patrick Corcoran creates a likeable, quirky, and refreshingly realistic character, Connolly.  Through Connolly, Corcoran boldly expresses thoughts many of us have had but might not say aloud, and experiences we […]

  01/21/2012 3:05 pm

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