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What book(s) is everyone reading at the minute?
What book(s) are you all reading at the minute? I'm reading David Gemmell's Midnight Falcon, second book in his Rigante series and John Berger's Ways of Seeing.
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This is not my usual reading material and it's garbage.
'What book(s) is everyone reading LAST minute?'
I panicked, trying to figure out what the deadline was :S
Currently reading GodBomb! by Kit Power.
Also reading Pound's ABC of Reading.
It's taking me a long time to get through. Don't know why...
A writers guide to haiku and related forms. Just what I was looking for.
I half read Elizabeth, Heather - it didn't hold me.
The Grapes of Wrath..Steinbeck. I am sure this is sacrilege, but blimey. It's a bit like wading against the current.
I'm still reading through the intro, a long way to go.
I'm also reading The Classic Tradition of Haiku and PJ Bayliss -Taboo
Is he telling me the right thing? I really don't know, Liz. Time will tell. It seems a good read.
Seaview writes good haiku.
My (published) poet friends and I did a course and half dropped out - it is so hard. Most haiku you see on the internet is not haiku. It's immensely difficult to write but enormously rewarding to write.
Alan's webpage is http://www.withwords.org.uk/ - i've just had a look and something is wrong with it, the words are white on white in parts, I'm going to let him know! If you highlight them with your cursor you can read them. Good info on there.
Edit to say, alan says his website is changing to be better next February, and his blog might be a better read... http://area17.blogspot.com
He recommends this page -
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/extended-judges-report-for-2013-world.html
(Honestly, once you get him talking you can't stop him...)
I would just like to add, if you find it hard... :-\" I'll give it a go and see and see how I get on.
I have read that some of the haiku produced today is not the genuine article.
It is reading seaview's haiku in the OWC that has inspired me.
Haiku Animals - not available for kindle and thanks for the link.
I'm now reading "Now That You're Back", a collection of short stories by A.L. Kennedy (her first collection, I think; I've read several others by her). I really like her writing, and so far this collection is ticking all the right boxes.
I'm also dipping into a book about the collective nouns for animals.
Heather, I found Elizabeth is Missing a little bit hard to get into at first but I did really like it.
If you'd like to, you can open a new thread and introduce yourself so that people can get to know a little more about you.
Hello again.
It's a gentle story at first, but I've only read three chapters. There's a definite undertone of battlefield drama to come. He wrote 'Warhorse'.
It's interesting picking up on the links to his other books, but it does leave me wishing I had time to re-read the others to see if I've missed anything, as some of the references are pretty subtle.
I've now just started Us by David Nicholls and it's good so far.