The fantastic rainy day book
Pictures and poetry
Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Colorful illustrations
Most stories in A Treasury of Favorite tales are new to me.
'How the Camel Got his Hump', 'How the Leopard Got his spots', 'The Elephant's Child', 'The cat that walked by Himself' are collected from Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories. I would have liked this mentioned. 'The Golden Goose' is from 'The Grimm Fairy tales'. The rest are from 'Aesops fables'.
Even the known one like 'The Hare and the Tortoise', 'The Fox and the Stork' are interesting with their makeover look. Imagine the stork with a pearl necklace.
The text embeds so well into the picture that it seems like a picture book than a text book. The amount of text in a line is like a free verse poem, making the reading smooth.
'How the Camel Got his Hump', 'How the Leopard Got his spots', 'The Elephant's Child', 'The cat that walked by Himself' are collected from Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories. I would have liked this mentioned. 'The Golden Goose' is from 'The Grimm Fairy tales'. The rest are from 'Aesops fables'.
Even the known one like 'The Hare and the Tortoise', 'The Fox and the Stork' are interesting with their makeover look. Imagine the stork with a pearl necklace.
The text embeds so well into the picture that it seems like a picture book than a text book. The amount of text in a line is like a free verse poem, making the reading smooth.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite
I want to compare this book with 'The geography of bliss'.
The writing style is so 20 years ago, that it is hard to read. This book needs a makeover as ' new non fiction'.
I want to compare this book with 'The geography of bliss'.
The writing style is so 20 years ago, that it is hard to read. This book needs a makeover as ' new non fiction'.
Dog moon, Radio moon, Poetry moon
The book of men
In Learning to drive, I liked the ending
to let me go it alone. his back pressed
against all that emptiness
I liked Mine own Phil Levine for its 'to wait, to hold true/ to my vision, to speak in my own voice' and 'to be yourself in your own time, to stand up/ that poetry was precision, raw precision/ Truth and compassion: genius'.
I liked The rising of a pregnant mare too. Author Dorianne Laux's interview on the poem and the book.
I liked the Dog moon poem too. There's a bit on it in the above interview link. his poem can be used as a poetry exercise too with its 'dog moon, radio moon, panic moon....'
Another interview of the author.
In Learning to drive, I liked the ending
to let me go it alone. his back pressed
against all that emptiness
I liked Mine own Phil Levine for its 'to wait, to hold true/ to my vision, to speak in my own voice' and 'to be yourself in your own time, to stand up/ that poetry was precision, raw precision/ Truth and compassion: genius'.
I liked The rising of a pregnant mare too. Author Dorianne Laux's interview on the poem and the book.
I liked the Dog moon poem too. There's a bit on it in the above interview link. his poem can be used as a poetry exercise too with its 'dog moon, radio moon, panic moon....'
Another interview of the author.
Too much sci-fi to continue
Distrust that particular flavor
Crystal radio
Since 1948 - How the author william Gibson became science fiction writer.
Crystal radio
Since 1948 - How the author william Gibson became science fiction writer.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
What a mantis is capable of?
In National Geographic magazine of animal mummies edition is a picture where Mantis catches hummingbird.
When a lion eats into a deer, the power play is visible but with a mantis, one only learns of the deceptive strength in it.
When a lion eats into a deer, the power play is visible but with a mantis, one only learns of the deceptive strength in it.
Deep sea
In a big hall
the ceiling has an
aquarium
with a large whale
with a fin missing
There are couple other
whales with all fins.
There are many other
small fish too
For the beautiful scene
that it is,
should someone break the glass
the whole room will be the
deep sea.
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In this dream, I wear long hangings with flexible smaller ones adding length. I usually go for small ones.
the ceiling has an
aquarium
with a large whale
with a fin missing
There are couple other
whales with all fins.
There are many other
small fish too
For the beautiful scene
that it is,
should someone break the glass
the whole room will be the
deep sea.
**********
In this dream, I wear long hangings with flexible smaller ones adding length. I usually go for small ones.
Mirth around the earth
The geography of bliss. I saw this book at library but I hadnt picked it then. I recognised the authors name this time and decided to give the book a try.
Even though his journey is in search of the 'where they are happy and why', we get to preview his view on journalism, paradise.
Tsechu
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