Sunday, August 28, 2011

A Bookish Update of Sorts....




I'm sorry for not posting for a whole week and a 3 days! I'm a bad blogger, I know. I'm 50% forgetful and 50% procrastinator, so if you're reading this thanks for sticking around :) Updates:

1. My dad, otherwise known as Man Who Gave Me Love for Books and Words In General, (I know, it's a long name. Actually, I'm the only one who calls him that.) bought me a book. Not just any book. THE book that I've been keeping my eye on for three months, waiting for it to go on sale. He bought me The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway and I finished it three days later. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone, although the writing style threw me off at first. It was a lot more sentimental than any other book by Hemmingway

2. I finished The Hobbit and Mockingjay this week. I'm not gonna lie, when I read the last few words of Mockingjay I cried a little inside. It's always like this when I finish a good trilogy/series. Goodbye, old friend!

3. Yesterday my dad (You know, MWGMLFBAWIG) took me to a Poetry Slam. It was nothing short of amazing and I can't wait to go again next month. He also took me book shop hopping afterwards where I bought the cutest and most expensive travel journal I've ever seen.

4. Today I was window shopping for books and I lamented to my sister the lack of online book review sites so you can steer clear of reads that are dishonoring to God. Well as I was Googling for something completely different, I came across this site that does exactly that! It's worth checking out if you're considering buying a book.

What have you been up to readers?
Are you getting sick of my book-ranting? If so, what other topics would you like to hear about? Honesty is welcome! :)


P.S. Doesn't this book look interesting?

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wise words

Truth if I've ever heard it:
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Moral of the story: Don't give up. The beginning is always the hardest.

What are you doing this weekend? I'm going on a youth camp and I'm SO excited!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Poetry

I mentioned briefly in a previous post my infatuation with poetry. Here are some of my favorites:

5. Water Lilies by Sarah Teasdale
This poem is beautiful.

4. Various poems from Stephen Crane
I know that he was cynical and sometimes dark, but Stephen Crane makes his points strongly in all of his poems. Here are some of my favorites from him: The Wayfarer, In The Desert, and War is Kind.

3. The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
There's something about this simple poem that just gets me. I have it hanging up in Walden and it inspires me to not listen to my inner editor while I write!

2. Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing I love so much as personification of nature in poetry.

1. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by E. E. Cummings
Also "I thank you God for most this amazing" by the same author.


So those are my favorites, what are yours? Also, I've been looking for more Christian poets. Not look-at-nature-and-how-God-made-it poems, but thinking poems originating from a Christian world view. Do you know of any?
Enjoy the rest of your public holiday, SA readers!