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Love Sue Grafton! X will be out soon,,, wondering what she will do when the alphabet is finished,,,,
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Be still my beating heart!!!!!!
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VR - thanks for the link. Should be good.
I'm reading a C.J. Box novel - Savage Run (2002). I'd only read one of his before so picked up a few more. Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming who apparently keeps getting involved w/murders - and running afoul of bureaucracy - sheriff's, bosses, govt' don't want his interference, but he has a strong sense of what's right wrong. He's married w/3 young daughters. Gorgeous scenery & some interesting history of the territory included. VR - another author I expect your DH would like if he doesn't already read him.
I ran across The House on Mango Street by Santra Cisneros (1984) at a used book store. Can't believe I'd never read it. What a brilliant picture of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Each vignette strikes a cord & sounds almost like poetry. Apparently it's now a 'coming of age' classic which I'd missed.
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Minus- I was just dropping in to wish you a very Happy Birthday tomorrow, and here you are! Thanks for the great new suggestions. I hate to miss any Bildungsroman! No matter where they occur!
Have a great day tomorrow with a wonderful year to follow!
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Happy Birthday, Minus!!!!!!
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Happy Birthday, Minus!!!0 -
Thanks ladies. I appreciate the good wishes.
I've been celebrating already & will continue all week. My BFF's son was in from Hawaii last weekend. His Mom, my BFF, died of pancreatic cancer in 2005 so I'm his substitute Mom. My cousin & her daughter from AZ will be in this week for the daughter to have more tests at MD Anderson. My son is coming in next weekend. He'll just have to do w/o me on Saturday since I've had plans for 5 months to go out of town to stay at another BFF's house who's B-day is the same day as mine. We have tickets to see s sold out show of The Letterman for those of you who remember the late 1950's & early 1960's (The Way You Look Tonight & When I Fall In Love)
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MinusTwo finished CJ Box's Out of Range two days ago. His description of the Tetons has me wanting to go see them. Love how he describes the scenery. Has a nice way of keeping the story moving and not bogging it down with useless ramblings.
Just finished Kathy Reichs new book Speaking in Bones. Love her writing style as well. Always manages to put some humor in it.
Working on Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase. So far I like it a lot.
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minus!!! Happy Birthday!!!!! 💞
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just finished Forbidden Fruit, the 5th in Kerry Greenwood's mystery series where the protagonist is an accountant turned baker- Corinna Chapman - the setting is/Melbourne Australia. Both Corinna's apt and Earthly Delights - the bakery is located in a quirky apartment building and you get to know all the building inhabitants, what it is like to run a bakery as well as the ins and outs of Melbourne today.
but before that, I read The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie. I mean what is not to like - learning how the Dalai Lama spends his time in Dharamsala? I picture his smiling face and have to smile myself and a cat narrator who is trying to practice Buddhism? I took a chance and was amply rewarded - a great read and I am eager not only to read the next 2 books in the series - but I actually might check out Michie's other books on Buddhism. http://davidmichie.com
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Happy Birthday Minus!
YES I remember The Lettermen, in fact I have their greatest hits on vinyl. My mom bought it new LOL.
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Badger - oh vinyl. So glad it's coming back since I still have all of mine. I recently bought a new phonograph when my old one bit the dust. In addition to playing traditionally through speakers, this one has a USB connection. When oh when would I take the time to transfer all that vinyl to the computer? (not)
Just read my new Bookmarks magazine and found 25 books I absolutely must read. More later.
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I remember the Lettermen too. That will be an awesome show.25 more books to the "to-read" pile? Oh boy,, can't wait to hear your finds.
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Been thumbing through my book of Emily Dickinson poems. Getting familiar where certain poems are in case I have to read them for an assignment in an upcoming online class I'm taking
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My favorite poet is Robert Frost and I recently bought his "Poetry for Young People" and also have "Poems to Learn by Heart"
author, Caroline Kennedy. Poetry is suited for all ages.0 -
Minus, we probably have 1,000 LPs between my DH's record collection and mine. There's no way I could afford to replace them all with CDs, assuming I could even find some of the older/more obscure ones. Recently looked into a unit that would play & record vinyl and cassette tapes onto CDs, and also play CDs, but those with good reviews are $250 to $300. Thanks for the idea of a record player with a USB connection to maybe burn some faves to CD through the computer!
I also love poetry, my favorites being fantastic ones like Kubla Kahn, The Tyger, and Jabberwoky.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
~Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
~William Blake'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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badger....wow! What a blast from the past! The first time I heard that poem was in college. My Communications professor read that poem as a segue into a discussion about lack of understanding and misunderstanding! I have loved that poem from the first time I heard it and I hark back to it at certain moments!
Thanks for sharing!!!!
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My 11th grade English teacher used to give us extra credit if we would memorize and recite a poem.I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky.
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking.
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide,
is a wide call and a clear call that may not be denied.
There's more,, but that's all I remember,,,,,
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"Artimus singing, Artimus singing" - Ezra Pound
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thank you Badger (and VR and Abigail) for the wonderful poetry share.
I especially loved the Blake, but they were all delightful. I btw never studied poetry properly, but this one was shared with me by my shrink, via text, while I was in the hospital recovering from BMX:
So much depends
Upon a red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rainwater
Beside the white chickens
- William Carlos Williams
You can imagine in my drug induced stupor, trying to understand something I was not trained to do. For the first time I tried to analyze a poem (again, stoned out ofmy mind) and I knocked Williams off for the purpose, I guess, of reconciling the loss. This is what I wrote back to him:
Hurting worse today
Brother's flight cancelled
Phantom pain prevails
Where woman once resided
-KS
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Katy, love WCW! Here's my fave by him:
To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday
Let him who may
among the continuing lines
seek outthe tortured constancy
affirms
where I persistlet me say
across cross purposes
that the flower bloomedstruggling to assert itself
simply under
the conflicting lightsyou will believe me
a rose
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Here is my favorite poem written by ee cummings....
since feeling is first
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
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Oh ladies!!!
You have made my morning with these two gems, both new to me. The world seems abeautiful place this morning.
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no one not even the rain has such small hands. cummings probably
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VR, I have always loved that poem!
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Longfellow......
"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
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Oh, Oh.....now I will have a hard time stopping.....
"Lean on the future. There
if anywhere
you walk upon the water,
All that was true at first
is true at last
but there is no way back
into the past.
But through the future. There
if anywhere
the miracle must happen."
Sydney Carter
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Just one more!
"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in. "
Leonard Cohen
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