Going back in time

Dana Reinhardt

Odessa is a likeable character with her sibling rivalry. Into the mix is the big divorce and remarriage of her dad. Faced with huge situations like this, Odessa needs powerful magic. Just what her attic can store, but like an hour glass the magic ticks away. Like Cinderella on clock.
Melding reality with fantasy as in this Time-travel is a tight rope walking, which the author finished with the pole of good writing. I couldnt buy the magic of fixing things over, too huge a leap of faith. That said, the book deals with an important transformation of accepting rocky boat situations having tried all recourses. The illustrations are no fuss and unpredictable.

I was a Latchkey kid too but me and my sister stayed at a boarding school as kids.
Gumshoe

Butter Brickle icecream

River Hope

Author: Melanie Crowder

Summer is perfect time for movies like Rango and Road Movie (Hindi) where water is power. In Melanie Crowder's Parched the sought after are the ones who can hear underground water or those with a lesser secret, the knowledge of looking around and see where the plants want to park their roots.
I have had a couple of childhood summers where we had to pull and push the water pump for muddy water until the rib hurt or push people to get the water from the municipality tanker. And once the drum is filled, the warmth of the bounty of water makes bath that much fun.
In a burnt place, Sarel uses survival skills learnt from her mother to tide not just herself but her pack of dogs. On the other end is another kid Musa who is captivated like the oracle Phaedra in the Titans story. His gift - he can hear invisible water. Everyone is after one thing in the desert. Water.
Adventurous and brave kids in search of their future. Oh how kids love to run the show. 
The story alternates between the point of views of Sarel and Musa. Bonus, Nandi the dog too gets his share of wordscape in the language of scents. The language in the book gets poetic sometimes.
'A thread of song scraped past his throat..'. This syle of sparse, distinct words leave vivid images in the mind of the reader.
When the author uses Ongola bird and other tree names, references or pictures would have helped.

Sounds like Wasabi

Wabi-sabi

Beheaded

Mannequin in love
I feel my upper body
my stomach until the
knees meld

Lawyers are contextualists, incrementalists

Since they charge in 6 minute increments, an hour could end up having way more than 60 min.
Lawyers rode circuit on horse back.

Pygmalion and the bulimic

There is an Ellen West in a poem. Who is Ellen West? And there's Frank Bidart's poem on her wiki page.

In Modern love, I wonder how some people can wait those many years and still be sane. And when you lose the opportunity of waiting, do you lose the 'hunger for the absolute?'.

Other people that I have been putting of from knowing: Henry Brulard.

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Compare and contrast tragedy

Compare and contrast loss of hearing

Katherine Bouton

For the last couple of weeks, the phone on the left seems to ring from the right.

I know a couple of friends who lost hearing in a ear - one due to wrong medication as a child. Looper technology.
In Facing the wave, the author write 'Because he could hear, he knew he was alive, no dreaming'. In the 'Shouting Wont Help' the author talks of an elderly British woman kidnapped in Africa and without her hearing aid. Blindfolded and no way to hear, she was kept away from that privilege of knowing she was alive.

As a child, when our school was getting ready for a meet, the convent sister asked me to get a plate or so I thought. I also reasoned why would she need a blade and got her a plate from cafeteria. Some one else’s. It was close to lunch time.

A word filled up might lead to funny incident or a mixup but what if you had a whole day’s notes in gobbledy gook.

‘Song without words’ is the unusual story of a person who spent most of his life deciphering the world through many layers with what he call lyricals – the stages of guessing the right word.

The stages are poetic but if every piece of info you receive is to be through this process then it can be harrowing than the impossible finger writing the letters.

Glasses with built in hearing aids

Reading was a Pascalian diversion - Stephanie lacava

'The more I know about the inner lives, the more I might understand about the world' 
When I read about the inner lives of deers and snail, it is a wonder that so much happens and exists unknown to us.

When I started reading the book, I assumed the author to be a male. But when the author talks about her naivete of trusting everyone, even the childhood phase didnt mask out her gender.
Poison dart frog from their poison's use in a dart.

Zombity

I have never read Zombie lit. I thought may be its good to start younger version of it.

Jumanji

I saw the Jumanji movie yesterday. I know its ancient. I used to tink Jumanji is the name of  amonkey who is friends with the kids.

After the movie who is brave enough to play the board game.

The apple with a smaller core

Today I am going to eat the apple
a new way
one that promises no core
I have to eat it from top
I stare at the apple on the napkin
It has a scar
just like me
a sign of contact with hot oven

one fourth into apple eating
I found no core and then I
could peek into it
A tiny thread, I pulled at it
a seed was stuck to it
attached with tiny filaments

I had to spit out a
ball of core

The oldest cookbook

Archestratus

The Culinary triangle

Tragedy in a town

A tornado hit south of Dallas city

When something like that happens

In Tempe, a town, whole is affected

Phoenix is huge.

The breadth of a city. Its takes more than an hour

To get to the other end