Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Not so complex Bell jar
He lives in a bell jar called Art
or Pleasure or Science
The Tunnel
In the days of childhood
cream colored cotton candy
was sold in a bell jar
or Pleasure or Science
The Tunnel
In the days of childhood
cream colored cotton candy
was sold in a bell jar
As I enter
through the gate
for lunch
a yellow butterfly
wades
through the air
of afternoon
courtesy:
"It will be", they said, " a sad,sad time
in which butterflies will be gathered" from The Calabash tree
Amen to butterflies
for lunch
a yellow butterfly
wades
through the air
of afternoon
courtesy:
"It will be", they said, " a sad,sad time
in which butterflies will be gathered" from The Calabash tree
Amen to butterflies
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The Foremost Good Fortune
The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
The foremost good fortune
Laowai
pole position
Anish Kapoor in China.
I am reading running away to home where author Jennifer Wilson with her family goes to her Croatian ancestral village to find her roots. I picked this 'The Foremost Good Fortune' book by Susan so I could compare.
Language is a big impediment in the new country in communicating yourself. Both families get care packages from grandparents back home for the displaced grandkids.
Puer tea
The author dines at local restaurants and involves herself in activities - sweater party, bag purchasing, that get her to interact more with the adopted country. From the people she meets everyday - a maid at house, a chaffeur, gym trainer, yoga teacher she learns much about the Chinese culture. As a family, she travels to different places and learns about the regions.
By making us see how her kids process her having cancer, she shows us a filigree of emotions around the cancer victims and family.
The author is not clueless in China as her husband has been there before and can speak the language. The children assimilate faster into the new culture with their father making it fun for them to learn the language. In distress when a child has to dissuade the maid from catching a pigeon outside their window, he says 'bu yao'.. not wanted.
The author compares her cancer to all situations she cant get a handle on.
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
Monday, October 10, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
1996 Fall
Hayden's Ferry Review Tenth anniversary has Laura Lee washburn's poem 'The story of Snow white and Rose Red'.
..
The sisters had no use for other stories..
From Valencia street poem,
..The street is a ribbon
on a gift you've never opened...
Turandot in George Looney's Libretto for an opera about gold and lust. His 'Under the sad weight of the moon' is a labrynth with a horse, moon at the dead ends. I was reminded of 'red chair in a beige room' by Carol smith only for the similarity of repetitive treatment of fixed subjects.
A chapter 11 from Valerie Miner's Range of light novel
D and C
In 'Paper Boy' by Cathrine Ryan Hyde(author of Pay It forward), I guessed part of the story.
..
The sisters had no use for other stories..
From Valencia street poem,
..The street is a ribbon
on a gift you've never opened...
Turandot in George Looney's Libretto for an opera about gold and lust. His 'Under the sad weight of the moon' is a labrynth with a horse, moon at the dead ends. I was reminded of 'red chair in a beige room' by Carol smith only for the similarity of repetitive treatment of fixed subjects.
A chapter 11 from Valerie Miner's Range of light novel
D and C
In 'Paper Boy' by Cathrine Ryan Hyde(author of Pay It forward), I guessed part of the story.
Reading Winter 2010 issue of The Missouri review, I came across Brian Brodeur's poems and his How a poem happens blog. His poem 'On Suffering' is gut wrenching.
Nancy Cunard
Samuel Beckett's - Whoroscope
I had read about Slum tourism a while ago. So when an Adam Krause story began with Slum Tours, I was very taken to read it even though it was fiction.
Maria Hummel's poem and her work on the myth of changeling
Nancy Cunard
Samuel Beckett's - Whoroscope
I had read about Slum tourism a while ago. So when an Adam Krause story began with Slum Tours, I was very taken to read it even though it was fiction.
Maria Hummel's poem and her work on the myth of changeling
Monday, October 3, 2011
Importance of fluid intake
Yesterday I read this Pregnancy journal from week 23. I was fascinated to learn of the amount of amniotic fluid in the uterus, the time in which it is replaced everyday after few weeks, the 55 pound pressure that is involved during contractions. And who thunk that breastfeeding is a ~500calorie effort.
I should read the first part and know more stuff.
I should read the first part and know more stuff.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The book of (Even more) Awesome
Authors website
Worst sleep ever?
when I was trying to increase my pile of experiences, I spent the night at a company. I wasnt scared. Its tough sleeping on a desk when there are mosquitoes.
Once my roomate locked me out by latching from inside. I had to spend the night at computing center and wait for it to be 6 in the moring when it was ok to loiter.
Authors website
Worst sleep ever?
when I was trying to increase my pile of experiences, I spent the night at a company. I wasnt scared. Its tough sleeping on a desk when there are mosquitoes.
Once my roomate locked me out by latching from inside. I had to spend the night at computing center and wait for it to be 6 in the moring when it was ok to loiter.
One to many
Has your expression ever been misunderstood? If you are like Keats muse, then a blush or sigh of yours has a very little chance of being understood.
Anthologized in She walks in beauty
Anthologized in She walks in beauty
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Book list
Today I wanted to get rid of a post-it which had names of 3 books. You keep compiling these books that you like from reviews and lose track of them. I had the first title wrong. I wrote down the article title instead of the book.
Fire season : Field notes from a wilderness outlook. I wanted to read this book to know more about Gila.
Far from shore - birdwatching
Man with a Pan
I realised that I read Man with a Pan.
Fire season : Field notes from a wilderness outlook. I wanted to read this book to know more about Gila.
Far from shore - birdwatching
Man with a Pan
I realised that I read Man with a Pan.
The Life of a Deli
My Korean Deli
I remember this book from a review either from NPR or NYTimes. In the beginning while the search is on for a deli, I had doubts if I would finish the book.But once he donned the 'deli owner' role, I was hooked to the book.
It must have been from where he starts to include his WASP history. Another moment was when a peek ino the refrigerator of the otherwise incommercible prospective store changed his mind.
The chapters traverse his dual lives of an editor at Paris Review and a deli owner maintaining a continuity. What it takes to keep a tobacco license, what happens to a deli in the times of power cut? These are the things we learn of and all the mayhem that surrounds these situations.
I remember this book from a review either from NPR or NYTimes. In the beginning while the search is on for a deli, I had doubts if I would finish the book.But once he donned the 'deli owner' role, I was hooked to the book.
It must have been from where he starts to include his WASP history. Another moment was when a peek ino the refrigerator of the otherwise incommercible prospective store changed his mind.
The chapters traverse his dual lives of an editor at Paris Review and a deli owner maintaining a continuity. What it takes to keep a tobacco license, what happens to a deli in the times of power cut? These are the things we learn of and all the mayhem that surrounds these situations.
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