Owan
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What am I reading? Nothing.
I’ll start a new book tomorrow. I wonder what it shall be. *scans huge stack looking for a particularly fascinating bookcover*
I don’t read poetry much, I tend to find it dull, but now and again I’ll read some.
I do like pieces like these:
“Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea
Past the houses, past the headlands
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?” — Emily Dickinson
“A short direction
To avoid dejection,
By variations
In occupations,
And prolongation
Of relaxation,
And combinations
Of recreations,
And disputation
On the state of the nation
In adaptation
To your station,
By invitations
To friends and relations,
By evitation
Of amputation,
By permutation
In conversation,
And deep reflection
You’ll avoid dejection.
Learn well your grammar,
And never stammer,
Write well and neatly,
And sing most sweetly,
Be enterprising,
Love early rising,
Go walk of six miles,
Have ready quick smiles,
With lightsome laughter,
Soft flowing after.
Drink tea, not coffee;
Never eat toffy.
Eat bread with butter.
Once more, don’t stutter.
Don’t waste your money,
Abstain from honey.
Shut doors behind you,
(Don’t slam them, mind you.)
Drink beer, not porter.
Don’t enter the water
Till to swim you are able.
Sit close to the table.
Take care of a candle.
Shut a door by the handle,
Don’t push with your shoulder
Until you are older.
Lose not a button.
Refuse cold mutton.
Starve your canaries.
Believe in fairies.
If you are able,
Don’t have a stable
With any mangers
Be rude to strangers.
Moral: Behave.” — Lewis Carrol
“Keep your whiskers crisp and clean.
Do not let the mice grow lean.
Do not let yourself grow fat
Like a common kitchen cat.
Have you set the kittens free?
Do they sometimes ask for me?
Is our catnip growing tall?
Did you patch the garden wall?
Clouds are gentle walls that hide
Gardens on the other side.
Tell the tabby cats I take
All my meals with William Blake,
Lunch at noon tea at four,
Served in splendor on the shore
At the tinkling of a bell.
Tell them I am sleeping well.
Tell them I have come so far,
Brought by Blake’s celestial cat,
Buffeted by wind and rain,
I may not get home again.
Take this message to my friends.
Say the King of Catnip sends
To the cat who winds his clocks
A thousand sunsets in a box,
To the cat who brings the ice
The shadows of a dozen mice
(serve them with assorted dips
and eat them like potato chips),
And to the cat who guards his door
A net for catching stars, and more
(if patience he abide):
Catnip from the other side.” — Nancy Willard
That kind of poetry.
I never notice it when books smell nice…only when they don’t smell nice. I have this copy of Crime and Punishment that smells sickening. I never open it.
As for rereads, I never thought I did that but now I see that maybe I do. As the last several books I’ve read have been basically all rereads. With reading the DragonKeeper’s again, and reading The Tale of Despereaux again after several years…I suppose I do reread sometimes.
Alassiel – 11 hours ago »
I’ve always loved the story of William Tell. I’m not exactly sure why though.
I’ve always loved it too…
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo 267 pages
This book comes in four parts (not including the page marked “Coda”) and though they are not nearly as interestingly titled as Lewis Carrol’s The Hunting of the Snark: A Book in Eight Fits they are “Book the First”, “Book the Second” and so on, which sounds nice.
And makes no sense I’m sure. This is, before you get any ideas, a romance. *coughcough* And is undoubtedly tragic; and there is no happily ever after at the end. The style is that of a old Granny sitting next to the fire telling stories to heavy eyed children and Kate DiCamillo obviously likes words. My favorite part is where Desperaux’s mother is calling “farewell” in French. Infact, I like that whole scene. Good stuff.Running Total: 5,600
It could be, ‘sept for the fact that light was pooring out of the egg in the mural, and Fly was blue and very unlight-like.
I’m not going to spoiler this, anyone who hasn’t read the books get shouldn’t be looking in this thread.
Don’t ya know.I was excited for Kale and Bardon too, and Penn is such a cute name. Mrs. Paul handled the birth scene well, I think.
I felt really bad for Bardon too, poor man.
I still don’t like Gilda, ugh, she’s never been one of my favorite characters…same with Celisse.
I liked the deal with Toopka, is was very interesting and unique, ya know? The last mural (the one of the egg) never came true. Did it?
Owan – 3 days ago »
Running Total: 4,610
DragonFire by Donita K. Paul 346 pages
I didn’t like the plot here, mostly because of the quiss, to much quiss talk in the last one, not near enough here. It could have used some help. I only really enjoyed the last several hundred pages. Once Bardon got the stakes and there on after I mostly liked it. And okay book.
DragonLight by Donita K. Paul 377 pages
No, I’m not going to butcher this book, Mrs. Paul did a pretty good job here. Atleast, I think so now, if I ever bother to read this book again I’ll likely murder it; till then I am under the impression that it was good. Somethings where a bit confusing and my Mother and sister are right, she goes by things way too fast. I keep having to close the book every little while and process things.
Such fun.Running Total: 5,333
Pip – 20 hours ago »
I don’t much like to reread books, as there’re so many books out there to discover!
Agreed! I just reread a book if I’m about to read a new one in the serious and am a little shaky on the previous books.
My siblings, however, will sometimes read books over and over. Which is something I think is a bit odd. I am reading…dundundun!…DragonFire, which I only read once before and am redisliking Paladin’s sickness. *growls*
DragonFire. I don’t remember much about this one, since I only read it once before and that was about a year ago.
Anyways, I’m sure it will be most interesting. I think…
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