Tag: book review
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May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals
July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
(my own photo) The most moving novel I’ve read this year, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]
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Poet Keith Waldrop, Postmodern poems, Fantasy and Modern Art
(this photo is from last year around this time; ‘my poetry cat’ Peeko was very pleased with this book.) Like poet Christina Rossetti, I found poet Keith Waldrop’s latest poetry book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy last year just discovered by me on the poetry shelf at the Foxboro Library; I was delighted to find out […]
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A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today
Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and […]
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Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi
Featured Poetry I’ve just read through this week this very new, just released poetry collection Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet living in California. I recommend this poetry book to anyone who enjoys a poetry style that feels almost to be part on the page and partly recited, with poems that approach […]
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Rooted and Winged by Luanne Castle: Standing So Your Familiar Setting Takes Flight with You
The book cover is beautifully done. Today I am joining Luanne Castle on her Book Tour around the blogs, and here is my reflective review of her latest, newly released poetry book, Rooted and Winged. While the title is my own poetic way of describing the poetry book, Rooted and Winged, a favorite line of […]
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May Ziadeh’s ‘Green Hut’ in the Wood, Her Preface to a Favorite Book I Came Across
* These words just held me…I didn’t realize the book, translated as Smiles and Tears by May Ziadeh that I was reading in PDF form today was the book titled Memories or German Love, by F. Max Muller that I’d seen cited as a book she’d translated; I’ve read the book in English. And I […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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! […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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My Ántonia by Willa Cather
I was first drawn to My Ántonia by its title. My first reaction was that Ántonia is a pretty name, and even more alluring was the author’s choice to title it My Ántonia, instead of simply, Ántonia. The title, My Ántonia, is personal and intimate, and by reading this title and just a few pages […]