The cover seems so familair

Almonds in bloom  knopped 

spinet
versicolor . verse- to turn
On Rumpus
The above words are beautiful. The language works.
The tight poetry of some of the poems n soldier in lines paras wasnt inviting. Space, you are so essential.
Landscape with figures partially erased makes bold statements where we just try to grapple what memory does to us, the poet portrays our part in it too. Like The simile of wild carrot, you can feel the texture of the poem too. In an ad on TV about Mesa Market place swap meet, a lady is shown painting a huge carrot on easel and I wonder what makes  a person paint an ordinary object on such a large scale. Still life but also large. And if she were to know this poem, she might just shudder.

Wonderland of ordinary wheels

using stationary bikes for cycle training. A woman likening the training to previous era's horse riding
Yesterday I read about the stolen cycle bazaar and a friend was telling me about how he lost his phone and had to negotiate for what price he could get it back.
With a serious thing like bicycle tax, the pantomime thieves use the license plates for more cash flow. Tax plate checking reminds me of ticket inspection in bus.

How writings shows the self

Remembering experiment
When you are writing and realise what you are writing is ordinary, he choice of what you need to write is its won stamp for the future historians to decode it. The author dissects her father's writing of what and how he chose to write his memoir and how it reflects on the perceptions held by the writer.

Imagine a yard sale scene where your family things that have been usurped from your family are at your will o be reclaimed. The author's family on one side found their genealogy book.
I Novel
Chameleon Readers: Teaching Children to Appreciate All Kinds of Good Stories
Biographical Literature June 1962 - Dec 1963 (3 Volumes) - Zhuanji Wenxue (3 Volumes)

NYTimes review
Qi wang honored for research on Asian families
Autobiographic memory and culture

Mother and child conversations

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams - Notice the mule train on the right.

Age and culture modulate object when I looked at the pictures, I found the ones with changing background interesting.

Play and learn

MIT relativity game. There must be games with learning theme.

Litcity

I was thinking about nouns and verbs and thought how they are like DC (Direct current) and AC(Alternating current)

Zorba

I had heard the interview on NPR but didnt know the celebrity mom was fabulous Nia Vardalos.
Improvisation

Darling kate and ellie dear

I was so pulled between these two books. I already had a big stack collected for the week. Luckily or unluckily for me, some other reader lightened my burden by choosing the wolf book.

Evolution of elements

Here's a timeline of discovery of elements. I am interested in how they have evolved since then.

What to do with summer?

With summer approaching, the teens have their summer camp and activities in place. Haley’s summer is about to take a storm-chaser pace trying to do justice and more to the alien detection fellowship she has won.

The description is fruitful. With details down to the sawdust in the barn, the scenes are easy to transport you into Haley’s world. The author has successfully created characters that you want to protect and keep out of harm’s way in the adventures.

It is easy to see why the book has gone into many pages. But after about 140 pages, I felt that with the introduction of two brand new characters, the book would have done better split into a sequel. 

Like Abhimanyu's character, she has gone into a mission and cant turn back.

A fictional book - 'Hunting the story' by fictional Pulitzer winner Garrett Conrad Wayne

Cucumber flavored soy chips

Games:

MegaDuck

At Tempe public library, we attended Craig Davis Magic show and show. When we got to the library, we were half an hour late. But because of the popular demand they had another show an hour later.
There was a mom with brown purse which was a huge rose with big petals. She and her son were singing the Popcorn rhyme.

Memoir of a teenage

six questions with Jason Mulgrew sums up the book as obsessions as the 'exploring themes' - pet, driving.

Jason Mulgrew

Author of five little monkeys

Toast rack
Stack bread at Met.
I started following museums on Twitter. Wonder why I didnt start earlier.
This reminds me of Bike stands and a place where the racks form the back of a cycle. Giant toast rack for the giant rabbit statues around.

Top 5 apps for authors
The word for that resembles a human face - pareidolia

Rats in charge

Have you seen the movie Rush Hour? Imagine the setting in Chinatown with two brothers, Fred and Ishbu - rats. Unlike the kid in the movie,its the adult who is MIA and the kids have a mystery to solve. The way Fred lists the clues known to him reminds me of questions from an entrance exam for MBA program where you have to think fast. A frenzy begins. Their journey leads them to the famous Loch Ness and further. They meet a secret clan of badgers. Whenever you enter a foreign territory you have to prove yourself. In ‘Koi and the Kola nuts’ Koi has to prove his mettle to a new tribe by solving three problems but these siblings have five tasks to solve before they can be ordained into the clan.

The integrity of the rat story in the human world is maintained very well without human interference in the story. The chapter breaks are comfortably spaced for children with each not running more than 3 pages. There is never a dull moment in the story.

I havent read the first book in the series but that didn’t see to matter in going on a worldwide tour with the pals with tails.

With a homemade library paste, we rolled the edge of pennants onta thread for Independence and Republic day celebrtions in India.
Bruxed
Bilge water
Fire dogs
There should be a class called Explorers.
Why animal stories?
This afternoon I saw a cartoon on qubo about a cow couple, their horns jutting out of their hats, corn with the husk as a collar, Lucy the cat with unnatural eyes. The above story of rats could have been written with people.

This book lists Loch Ness as one of the places that cab change your child's life.

This cover is hard to picture with a book in hand.

stages of life in garden