Very quick question! What are your favorite poems/poets with non-poetry-readers, particularly teenagers? I want to do a little poetry event with my kids as part of April being National Poetry Month, and any suggestions are most welcome!

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Life. Sometimes the drama forces you to assess things more clearly, you know?

In other news, I finally read Neil Gaiman's Stardust yesterday and it was fabulous! For those of you that haven't read it, it's a fantasy/faerie tale/quest novel featuring a cusp-of-adulthood young man searching for a fallen star. It was a pretty quick read; I ( Read more... )

But first, a meme! I had to post this one once I saw the result:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012."I should cut back on my work anyway, and--we should make an effort to eat together ( Read more... )

I've been reading some really excellent things lately, both novels and some Yuletide stuff, and I wanted to share my squee! I'm stilling working through Yuletide, so I'll post those in a day or two, but for now, have some book talk! I also have a couple more books I want to talk about, but I figured I'd go ahead and post this now.

Poison Study, ( Read more... )

Well and also Merry Christmas. Hope all is well. Since my charger died, I have been reading. A lot. A whole, whole lot. Here are six, so as not to overwhelm. :)

Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. Highly Recommended (♥♥♥♥♥)

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It's summer, which means I've had time to read again.

( Three under the cut )

So, uh, three books at a time might lead too much a bit too much post for your flist, especially considering how v. spam happy I've been lately. Here's the latest six. I, uh, did say I read fast...

Now with Amazon links!

( The Portable Door by Tom Holt; Jinx High by Mercedes Lackey; Gettin Lucky by Micol Ostow; Devilish by Maureen Johnson; The Boyfriend League by Rachel Hawthorne; A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman )

I plan on doing this every three books. Just writeups about what I like and don't like about things I've been reading.

( Hero, by Perry Moore; Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, by Peter Cameron; Assassin's Apprentice, by Robin Hobb )

This post was meant to be a short list of things I'm reading. Just so you know. and instead it's turned into an incredibly rambly tale of my journey through fandom, and why the fandom path I was following has begun to get a little weedy and overrun. I guess this is sort of my I'm leaving fandom post, but I haven't been a true member of fandom in ( Read more... )

My dad got a new book in the mail today. Wide Awake, by David Levithan. Some of you might have heard me squee about David Levithan before, but, in case you haven't, he is omgsogood. Like, amazingly good. Incredibly good. REALLY REALLY GOOD, OK. And this book is about. about government. and politics. campaigns and road trips and rallies and phone ( Read more... )