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worducopia worducopia reading writing art life portland pages home review policy tuesday august 15 2017 social justic booklist putting this here for my future reference and yours social justice booklist this is a list of books for students from elementary school on up and for adults i ve read quite a few of them i m putting the rest on my reading list currently reading my signed copy that i picked up from the author q a at a writing conference in early august i m on somewhere around page 8 currently writing i finished a chapter i ve been stuck on rewriting for months currently putting off calling an auto body shop to fix my car currently planning a birthday adventure in september that s my brief update for now posted by ali at 1 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 4 2017 on book clubs and a man called ove fredrik backman i enjoy my book club i really do but my favorite book club day is the first one of each year where we choose the books for the rest of the year it s sort of all downhill from there the actual reading of the required books with a deadline leaves me wanting to clean out my compost container make dreaded phone calls or file my nails on a chalkboard rather than read and my book club is serious business nobody blithely saunters in announcing that they didn t read the book i don t think i ve actually finished a book in time for book club in a year shhh don t tell them until now i finished this one thanks to a public transit study i was helping with which gave me extra reading time while bus waiting and such and then the readathon which gave me the excuse to sit down at home and read for hours at a stretch also it helped that i liked the book at first not so much but as i got into it i really loved it my one complaint is that it says on page one that ove is 59 years old but i forgot that and decided in my head that he was a grumpy old man in his 70s or 80s fifty nine is not old and is there seriously a 59 year old who doesn t know what an ipad is i was under the impression that sweden was not a backwater country where 59 is old and ipads are new fangled inventions but maybe i m wrong with that complaint out of the way i liked grumpy ove i liked his neighbors and the cat that moved in with him against his better judgement and i liked the ending which have i mentioned i read here s a hot tip for you book club discussions are more interesting when you ve read the book who knew playlist one of my favorite groups is first aid kit a sister duo from sweden i think their song emmylou is a good pick for this book posted by ali at 10 53 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 29 2017 readathon 2017 hello is this thing on all right then let s get reading here s to you dewey i ll be starting with my book club book a man called ove i m on page 146 of 337 book club is tuesday par for the course these days for me i m starting 2 hours late because 5 a m and i have spent plenty of time lying awake together lately sleep is a precious commodity these days and i just can t say no when my brain will do it and now i ve spent the first half hour taking care of pets and typing this blog post on my phone i ll check in at 8 hour 6 update well that went quickly it s 10 30 and i ve read 85 pages and done a challenge or two my 6 word story is on twitter worducopia i ll be taking a break in an hour to go to a pound class a little exercise i decided should help my productivity in the long run just over 100 pages to go on ove let s do this my goal is to be on to a second book by hour 8 posted by ali at 7 22 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 20 2015 joy street laura foley laura foley s latest book of poetry was a lovely way to start a wintery morning with a cup of tea the collection mixes it up a bit with prose poems interspersed among the free verse at just 36 pages it s the reader s equivalent of a long walk on the beach a refreshing way to gain a new perspective on life this is the poetry of a woman who has been through some tough times and come out the other side a wiser and more self confident person foley alludes to a difficult childhood in ghost street but as in the poem she doesn t wish to go back there this collection is focused on the future on new love and on moving gracefully into middle age one of the things that draws me to poetry is the way it can show the impact of an ordinary moment in a life foley pulls this off beautifully my favorite example of this is dinner party a prose poem in which foley describes a party where she the only poet among mostly lawyers hasn t spoken a word in two hours when the conversation finally turns to a topic she knows something about burial as it happens she thinks she s found her chance to jump in i will leap in with the story of how we buried my husband in the front yard dug the hole ourselves yes it s legal in new hampshire yes i got a vault i ll sound smart resourceful witty and everyone will like me but before she gets a chance to speak the conversation moves on and the moment is over a lost opportunity most of us can certainly relate to foley follows the conversation as it evolves someone s talking cat coffins asking maple or pine or shiny walnut and thai mahogany with hot pink satin lining leading away from the opportunity to connect and towards the trivial the poem ends with the effect of the shared experience with her new partner clara clara shy and quiet too smiles as i do all through dinner though she tells me later she could have explained about ashes the ease of letting go the incident seems to have brought them closer through their distance from the others most of the poems have a positive spin to them without veering too close to the edge of light and fluffy my only complaint about the collection is that i wanted more when a poem hints at a larger incident it can be intriguing or it can leave the reader with a sense of an unfinished story in some cases i felt lost with only one moment drawn from what must have been a monumental event i could have read a whole book about foley s partner s brain surgery for example but instead we just get references to it in a couple of poems maybe i ll have to wait for the next collection luckily there are three previous collections of foley s work to tide me over in the meantime ___________________________________________ for other reviews check out these links on the book tour schedule i d rather be at the beach lit and life book dilettante savvy verse and wit diary of an eccentric it s all about books unabridged chick review and interview peeking between the pages peeking between the pages author guest post patricia s wisdom books without any pictures wednesday january 21st suko s notebook thursday january 22nd suko s notebook author guest post tuesday january 23rd bookgirl s nightstand saturday january 24th wordy evidence of the fact monday january 26th bell book candle wednesday january 28th musings of a bookish kitty author guest post thursday january 29th musings of a bookish kitty tbd everything distils into reading posted by ali at 2 59 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 12 2014 poetry month and introducing pix here is a book spine poem i made in honor of april being poetry month that s about all i ve done for poetry month so far i should maybe like read some poems and stuff put that on the to do list i guess in other news since i last blogged we got the sweetest dog in the world pix was a rescue dog that my friend s wife adopted a little over a year ago sadly his wife passed away last summer and he has been looking for a home for pix we are so happy to have her here as part of our family she has really bonded with both of my boys even the cat kinda likes her a friend of mine told me that when a cat turns his back to you it means he trusts you currently reading behind the beautiful forevers by katherine boo it s a fascinating and heartbreaking look at a slum inhabited by garbage pickers near the airport in mumbai india i m reading it for book club where we were assigned to read about something anything we know nothing about i tried to get book club to read this one last year but we had too many good books to choose from and this one didn t make the cut it also might have been a tad bit depressing for some of them at the time saturday snapshot is hosted by west metro mommy posted by ali at 12 31 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pets poetry older posts home subscribe to posts atom follow me on facebook alison jakel worducopia like my page for links photos and the occasional snarky comment as i read follow worducopia on instagram www instagram com worducopia subscribe to worducopia in a reader worducopia wər də ˈkō pē ə n 1 an abundance of 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