BW18: May Author of the Month - Peng Shepherd

 

Happy Sunday! Our author of the month is Peng Shepherd who writes speculative fiction as well as mysteries. Shepherd's debut novel, The Book of M, released in 2018 won Dartmouth College's 2019 Neukom Institute for Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction. Her second book, The  Cartographers, was an international best seller, and her third book, All This and More will be released in July of this year.  I'm currently reading The Cartographers which is about a young woman who finds a map with a dark and deadly secret, in a hidden drawer of her deceased father's desk. 

I have always been fascinated by Cartography, the study, science, and practice of drawing and using maps, which brings us to one of our 52 Book's Bingo categories.  From the real life cartographic crimes like in Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey to writing books like Maps of the Imagination by Peter Turchi, to creating your own maps in Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel, to fictional tales of mapmakers such as The Mapmaker's War by Ronlyn Domingue, they have all been an adventure to read. 

Have fun exploring the fiction and not so fictional roads and routes of cartography! 

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BW17: Question me an Answer!

 

Happy Sunday!  We have a queen who is in a quagmire to answer the quality of the quadragenarian quest without qualms or quibbles due to the quadrants quirks.  What is the question?  Your mission is to read about a quest, a question, a quack, even a quid pro quo.  Have fun! 

Lost Horizon 

Music by Burt Bacharach

Question me an answer bright and clear

I will answer with a question clear and bright

Even though your answer may be wrong

My question will be right

Question me an answer

Answer with a question

(Chorus) Fourteen hundred ninety two. (1492)

(Bobby) What's the year that Babe Ruth hit his sixtieth home run?

(Chorus) Wellington at Waterloo

(Bobby) Who became the hero at the battle of Bull Run?

Learning can be lots of fun

Question me an answer bright and clear

I will answer with a question clear and bright

Even though your answer may be wrong

My question will be right

Question me an answer

Answer with a question

(Chorus) Midnight ride of Paul Revere

(Bobby) What's the way that Yankee Doodle really went to town?

(Chorus) Cleaning up the atmosphere

(Bobby) What's the reason London Bridge is always falling down

(All) You can learn things from a clown

Question me an answer bright and clear

I will answer with a question clear and bright

Even though your answer may be wrong

My question will be right

Question me an answer

Answer with a question

(Bobby) On the good ship Lollipop

(Chorus) How did Christopher Columbus sail upon the sea?

(Bobby) Underneath the circus top

(Chorus) Where did Cleopatra get to meet Mark Anthony?

(All) They say knowledge makes you free

Question me an answer if you please

I will answer with a question if I can

(Bobby) Let me show you just how I

Became an educated man

Question me an answer

Answer with a question

If you wanna' know, if you wanna' hear, if you wanna' see

Question me an answer

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BW16: P stands for .......

 

Happy Sunday! P stands for Paint.  We’re still prepping our bathroom since we had the bathroom disaster and we’ve been scraping and scrubbing and sanding, redoing the old orange peel left over from the days we used to rent before we lay linoleum, and shop for replacements for the old medicine cabinet and mirrors, and light fixtures. Hubby and I have different methods for getting some things done and we are both passionate about how to do so but we have fun in the process since both ways work well. Things goes faster when we work together as a team. Which brings me to our letter of the week.

P not only stands for paint but also poetry,  plot, prose, personification, protagonists, proverbs, puns, as well as pool.  Ha! 

"Trouble (oh, we got trouble)

Right here in River City (right here in River City)

With a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool (that stands for pool)

We've surely got trouble (we've surely got trouble)

Right here in River City (right here)

Gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school

(Our children's children gonna have trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble)"

Ya Got Trouble by Robert Preston

April is National Poetry Month and the poster above represents the poem Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton. 

may the tide

that is entering even now

the lip of our understanding

carry you out

beyond the face of fear

may you kiss

the wind then turn from it

certain that it will

love your back may you

open your eyes to water

water waving forever

and may you in your innocence

sail through this to that

Why the poem has no punctuation is beyond me, but it's another p word.   So read a book of poetry or punctuation.  Read about Robert Preston, or Prince or Pedro Pascal.  Read a book about painters, or pets, or penguins.  Read a book about passion or peace or prosperity. 

Find your pleasure, find your prize, as you participate in our favorite pastime.  

Peace out! 

*****

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BW15: Onomatopoeia

 

Happy Sunday!  Our next 52 Books category meshes well with our letter and word of the week: One word titles and onomatopoeia.  

Weather

by

Eve Merriam

1916 –1992

Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot

Spotting the windowpane.

Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck

Freckling the windowpane.

A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter

A splatter a rumble outside.

Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella

Bumbershoot barrel of rain.

Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh

Slither and slather a glide

A puddle a jump a puddle a jump

A puddle a jump puddle splosh

A juddle a pump a luddle a dump

A pudmuddle jump in and slide!

Have fun! 

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