BW35: Reverie in Open Air by Rita Dove

 

Happy Sunday! We are celebrating the 72nd birthday of  Rita Dove, born August 28, 1952 and poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove has three lifetime achievement awards, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and is the only poet given both the National Humanities Medal in 1996 and the National Medal of the Arts in 2011.

Reverie in Open Air

by 

Rita Dove

I acknowledge my status as a stranger:   

Inappropriate clothes, odd habits   

Out of sync with wasp and wren.   

I admit I don’t know how   

To sit still or move without purpose.   

I prefer books to moonlight, statuary to trees.   

But this lawn has been leveled for looking,   

So I kick off my sandals and walk its cool green.   

Who claims we’re mere muscle and fluids?   

My feet are the primitives here.   

As for the rest—ah, the air now   

Is a tonic of absence, bearing nothing   

But news of a breeze.

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BW34: Seeds

 

Happy Sunday!  What do you think of when you hear the word "Seeds."  Planting, germinating, thinking, gardening, tennis players, seeds of doubt, seeds of thought, parable of the mustard seed, or maybe even Svalbard to name a few.  

Read a book with seed in the title.

Read a fiction or nonfiction book about Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

What to Read: 20 Children’s Books About Seeds and Plants

Rachel Gullo's Books That Were Seeds for My Novel

The Unusual Crops of Strange Trees & Plants

Best Fiction Books About Plants

Orchards in Romance Novels

“You shall be my roots and

I will be your shade,

though the sun burns my leaves.

You shall quench my thirst and

I will feed you fruit,

though time takes my seed.

And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth

you will give me hope.

And my voice you will always hear.

And my hand you will always have.

For I will shelter you.

And I will comfort you.

And even when we are nothing left,

not even in death,

I will remember you.”

― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

Happy Reading! 

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BW33: 52 Books Bingo - Tell Me a Secret

 

Happy Sunday! Our next 52 Books Bingo category is Tell Me a Secret. I loved books with secrets. Books about secret agents, secret societies, secret doors and passageways, secret towns or a town with a secret, secret friendships or relationships, family secrets. That hidden something the characters, people, companies, or place want to keep hidden and everyone else is trying to uncover.  Read a book about a secret or with secret in the title.

 

Pan MacMillan’s Books with secrets

 

Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 20 notable novels featuring family secrets

 

Penguin Random House Page-Turning Spy Novels

 

Goodread’s Best Books of Secrets

 

Big T, little T, what begins with T:  Tenacious, transparent, taboo, and twists.

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BW32: August Author of the Month - Marie Brennan

 

Happy Sunday! Welcome to August and our Author of the Month - Marie Brennan who is best known for her Memoirs of Lady Trent series.  Brennan has also written several other science fiction fantasy series as well as numerous short stories.  I am currently on the third book in her Lady Trent series  - Voyage of the Basilisk - and looking forward to reading the rest of the series which just so happen to be available for free on Kindle Unlimited. 

August is also Romance Awareness Month and International Pirate Month which means it looks like we'll have some swashbuckling pirates to read about as well.  And since we're still in the Dog Days of Summer, today is National Water Balloon Day.  So fill up some balloons with water and cool down with a royal water balloon fight. 

We're counting down the year with our A to Z and Back again challenge and this week's letter is U.  Big U, little U, authors names that begins with U. Uris, Unger, Undset, Ure, Underhill to name a few.  Also, look for books with U in the title such as Unbroken, U is for Undertow, The Ugly Duckling, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, or Under the Net.  

Understand? 

Have fun uncovering unique and uplifting or ubiquitous reads!

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