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I last did one of these about a month ago. Here is what I have been up to on the blog since then.
Recent reviews of books:
City of Bones by Martha Wells (fantasy)
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder (nonfiction)
Upcoming reviews:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Declare -- Tim Powers (fantasy, currently listening on audio)
other posts:
Wyrd & Wonder Blog Tag, prompts 1-10 (Wyrd & Wonder blog event)
Bout of Books 25: May 13-19 sign up post!
Almost a year ago, I selected the 17th century poem "Corinna’s Going a-Maying" (Robert Herrick) for the weekly feature The Monday Poem in a GoodReads group, All About Books. I didn't write about it, but you can read the poem here with some helpful annotations. Herrick’s best-known poem is "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," on a similar theme. The first stanza:
Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh-quilted colors through the air:
Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east
Above an hour since: yet you not dress'd;
Nay! not so much as out of bed?
When all the birds have matins said
And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in,
Whereas a thousand virgins on this day
Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Almost a year ago, I selected the 17th century poem "Corinna’s Going a-Maying" (Robert Herrick) for the weekly feature The Monday Poem in a GoodReads group, All About Books. I didn't write about it, but you can read the poem here with some helpful annotations. Herrick’s best-known poem is "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," on a similar theme. The first stanza:
Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh-quilted colors through the air:
Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east
Above an hour since: yet you not dress'd;
Nay! not so much as out of bed?
When all the birds have matins said
And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in,
Whereas a thousand virgins on this day
Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
I’ve always meant to read something by Ursula LeGuin because she is a giant in the genre but I haven’t as yet.
ReplyDeleteHave a great reading week
I've never read The Left Hand of Darkness although I've liked some of her other books! I should get that one at some point and try it.
ReplyDeleteI will check out your thoughts on City of Bones.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Ursula LeGuin but it's been years since I read her books. I love Martha Wells' Murderbot so I'll have to check out her other work one of these days. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteAnne - Books of My Heart Here is my Sunday Post