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a habit of reading a habit of reading wednesday october 14 2009 radio silence i ve combined this blog with my original blog rockhound place as keeping up with four blogs is not something i can currently manage i still have lots of book recommendations in my posts and hope to start participating in poetry friday again when things around here settle down a bit this blog still gets google hits quite a bit so i plan to keep it up if not running but all of my previous a habit of reading posts can now be found over at rockhound place posted by christina at 10 14 am no comments friday april 17 2009 poetry friday sara teasdale again another little bit of serendipity came my way this week in the area of music meets poetry last week my pf post was a poem by sara teasdale april and three days later i sat down in a choir rehearsal to begin working on a song called a blessing by new zealand born composer david n childs satb piano flute published by santa barbara music publishing inc the lyrics just happen to be based on another poem by sara teasdale that i find very moving peace sara teasdale peace flows into me as the tide to the pool by the shore it is mine forevermore it ebbs not back like the sea i am the pool of blue that worships the vivid sky my hopes were heaven high they are all fulfilled in you i am the pool of gold when sunset burns and dies you are my deepening skies give me your stars to hold poetry friday is being hosted today at becky s book reviews posted by christina at 12 01 am 3 comments labels music meets poetry poetry friday sara teasdale friday april 10 2009 poetry friday sara teasdale 1884 1933 april sara teasdale the roofs are shining from the rain the sparrows twitter as they fly and with a windy april grace the little clouds go by yet the back yards are bare and brown with only one unchanging tree i could not be so sure of spring save that it sings in me my sentiments exactly poetry friday is being hosted today at carol s corner posted by christina at 9 17 am 4 comments labels poetry friday sara teasdale spring tuesday march 31 2009 a seasonal quote from charlotte mason a girl who knows something about wildflowers for example will be a popular walking companion with all kinds of people in various circumstances home education in modern english volume 1 of charlotte mason s series love it thanks to the hearts and trees newsletter for the quote a new blog entry at the hearts and trees blog titled a few spring nature study ideas is worth checking out posted by christina at 10 11 am no comments labels charlotte mason nature study thursday march 26 2009 poetry friday john david b 1946 you are the new day by john david i will love you more than me and more than yesterday if you can but prove to me you are the new day send the sun in time for dawn let the birds all hail the morning love of life will urge me say you are the new day when i lay me down at night knowing we must pay thoughts occur that this night might stay yesterday thoughts that we as humans small could slow worlds and end it all lie around me where they fall before the new day one more day when time is running out for ev ryone like a breath i knew would come i reach for a new day hope is my philosophy just needs days in which to be love of life means hope for me born on a new day well i don t know if it stands alone enough as a poem but welsh songwriter john david s song is very moving especially as sung by the king s singers try to ignore barney and the teletubbies i do the local community chorus with which i sing is singing an satb arrangement by former king s singers member peter knight of this song in our upcoming spring concert along with some other lovely choices poetry friday is being hosted today by children s book author julie larios over at the drift record posted by christina at 9 30 pm 6 comments labels king s singers music meets poetry poetry friday thursday march 19 2009 what s in your tbr stack melissa of here in the bonny glen posted a picture of her tbr stack and i thought it would make a nice meme to get others to share what is in theirs here s a pile of my tbrs what s in yours hey i just noticed that if you click on the photo the picture gets bigger and the titles are actually legible posted by christina at 9 59 pm 4 comments labels more books to read list friday march 6 2009 poetry friday nancy white carlstrom today in honor of alaska s last great race the 2009 iditarod which begins tomorrow at 10 a m alaska time 2 p m est i am posting the spring part of a poem celebrating the four seasons by nancy white carlstrom from her book midnight dance of the snowshoe hare poems of alaska 1998 with the author s permission the book s lovely illustrations are by ken kuroi from raven cries river by nancy white carlstrom snowshoe hare white on light sled dog dreaming big race grouse family comic roosting tree like joke red squirrel carries sunshine gangly moose dangling new buds stamping mud from snowmelt and raven bold rascal raven cries river ice chunks crashing water rushing spring breakup the rest of the poem tells of each of the other three seasons from the animals perspectives the other poems in the book are also told in the voices of various snowshoe hare young ones wise grandfather hare and others carlstrom s usually spare verse doesn t verge into cutesieness so although this book is likely aimed at the four to eight crowd older readers will also enjoy it we ve read the jesse bear books by carlstrom and have copies of who said boo halloween poems for the very young and thanksgiving day at our house thanksgiving poems forthe very young that we get out each fall the author has a website with a list of the jesse bear books plus a list of all of her other books to date for more of my posts about the iditarod including lists of books dvds and other resources concerning the race alaska and the arctic visit one of my other blogs rockhound place poetry friday is being hosted today at picture book of the day check it out posted by christina at 8 25 am 3 comments labels alaska poems poetry friday friday february 20 2009 poetry friday dante and more divine geometry from dante s divine comedy translated by dorothy l sayers as the geometer his mind applies to square the circle not for all his wit finds the right formula howe er he tries so strove i with wonder how to fit the image of the sphere so sought to see how it maintained the point of rest in it thither my own wings could not carry me but that a flash my understanding clove whence its desire came to it suddenly high phantasy lost power and here broke off yet as a wheel moves smoothly free from jars my will and my desire were turned by love the love that moves the sun and the other stars from the pythagorean liturgy though in noon s heaven no star you see know well that many there must be and with your soul s extended ears you ll hear the music of the spheres read about pythagoreanism here and for an interesting look and listen at one man s attempt to hear literally the planets as they orbit the sun visit carmen of the spheres poetry friday is being hosted today at the holly and the ivy head on over and check it out posted by christina at 8 02 am 3 comments labels music in poetry poetry friday wednesday february 18 2009 100 books list saw this without the meme on suji s funschooling blog then with the meme at lb s am i using the word meme correctly lb i love lists especially lists of books changed the name to 100 because i m a recovering type a and there are more than 100 on the list bold those you have read italicize those you intend to read do audio books count you decide movies decidedly no 1 pride and prejudice jane austen many times over one of my all time faves 2 the lord of the rings jrr tolkien read in high school much to the dismay of my bff who couldn t understand how i could disappear inside books the way i did these 3 jane eyre charlotte bronte 4 harry potter series jk rowling 5 to kill a mockingbird harper lee read it because i wondered what i was missing in high school bju textbooks don t get me started 6 the bible 7 wuthering heights emily bronte 8 1984 george orwell college can t remember 9 his dark materials philip pullman 10 great expectations charles dickens have read parts 11 little women louisa m alcott 12 tess of the d urbervilles thomas hardy 13 catch 22 joseph heller 14 complete works of shakespeare have read some for the same reason as 5 15 rebecca daphne du maurier 16 the hobbit jrr tolkien see 2 read all four in almost unceasing obsession um succession 17 birdsong sebastian faulks 18 catcher in the rye jd salinger 19 the time traveller s wife audrey niffenegger ooh tried this one and found it annoying 20 middlemarch george eliot 21 gone with the wind margaret mitchell another high school read that annoyed my bff 22 the great gatsby f scott fitzgerald 23 bleak house charles dickens 24 war and peace leo tolstoy 25 the hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy loved it especially the answer 26 brideshead revisited evelyn waugh 27 crime and punishment fyodor dostoyevsky 28 grapes of wrath john steinbeck 29 alice in wonderland lewis carroll favorite of mine 30 the wind in the willows kenneth grahame another favorite but can t get it to work as a read aloud for some reason 31 anna karenina leo tolstoy 32 david copperfield charles dickens 33 chronicles of narnia cs lewis 34 emma jane austen 35 persuasion jane austen 36 the lion the witch and the wardrobe cs lewis hmm wasn t this just mentioned at 33 37 the kite runner khaled hosseini won t read it 38 captain corelli s mandolin louis de bernieres 39 memoirs of a geisha arthur golden as part of a book club 40 winnie the pooh aa milne 41 animal farm george orwell 42 the da vinci code dan brown 43 one hundred years of solitude gabriel garcia marquez started it never finished 44 a prayer for owen meaney john irving 45 the woman in white wilkie collins started to read 46 anne of green gables lm montgomery another all time favorite 47 far from the madding crowd thomas hardy 48 the handmaid s tale margaret atwood 49 lord of the flies william golding 50 atonement ian mcewan 51 life of pi yann martel 52 dune frank herbert 53 cold comfort farm stella gibbons 54 sense and sensibility jane austen 55 a suitable boy vikram seth 56 the shadow of the wind carlos ruiz zafon 57 a tale of two cities charles dickens 58 brave new world aldous huxley 59 the curious incident of the dog in the night time mark haddon 60 love in the time of cholera gabriel garcia marquez started don t think i finished it 61 of mice and men john steinbeck 62 lolita vladimir nabokov 63 the secret history donna tartt 64 the lovely bones alice sebold 65 count of monte cristo alexandre dumas did i might be confusing it with the scarlet pimpernel 66 on the road jack kerouac 67 jude the obscure thomas hardy 68 bridget jones s diary helen fielding laugh out loud book 69 midnight s children salman rushdie 70 moby dick herman melville 71 oliver twist charles dickens 72 dracula bram stoker 73 the secret garden frances hodgson burnett 74 notes from a small island bill bryson had this on my to read list last summer 75 ulysses james joyce 76 the bell jar sylvia plath for college class 77 swallows and amazons arthur ransome 78 germinal emile zola 79 vanity fair william makepeace thackeray 80 possession as byatt loved it 81 a christmas carol charles dickens 82 cloud atlas david mitchell 83 the color purple alice walker 84 the remains of the day kazuo ishiguro 85 madame bovary gustave flaubert 86 a fine balance rohinton mistry 87 charlotte s web eb white 88 the five people you meet in heaven mitch albom 89 adventures of sherlock holmes sir arthur conan doyle these are right up there with the austen canon for me 90 the faraway tree collection enid blyton 91 heart of darkness joseph conrad 92 the little prince antoine de saint exupery read so long ago i want to read it again 93 the wasp factory iain banks 94 watership down richard adams started never finished 95 a confederacy of dunces john kennedy toole 96 a town like alice nevil shute 97 the three musketeers alexandre dumas 98 hamlet shakespeare 99 charlie and the chocolate factory roald dahl 100 les miserables victor hugo well that was fun what a great reminder of some classic titles i ve been meaning to read i ll set a goal to read at least one of the italicized books this year posted by christina at 9 15 pm 3 comments labels more books friday february 13 2009 poetry friday walt whitman 1819 1892 after the dazzle of day walt whitman after the dazzle of day is gone only the dark dark night shows to my eyes the stars after the clangor of organ majestic or chorus or perfect band silent athwart my soul moves the symphony true the walt whitman archive has an incredible amount of information photos and of course the works of the poet definitely worth a visit so mosey on over if you have the inclination there is even a photo of whitman s original manuscript of this poem 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