A Very Original Title I Can't Think Of

I was about to start decorating, for lack of a better word, my portfolio when I realized I hadn't posted on my blog. I really don't know what to post, but anyway...

I was out sick this Thursday, Friday and was still sick on Saturday, so I had plenty of time to read. I mostly read historical fiction, which was a little surprising. I finished Cate of the Lost Colony, which was a romance that took place in the Roanoke settlement of 1585 that was never seen again, and I loved it. Politics, romance, history - all it needed was fantasy and it would be one of my ideal books. The author, Lisa Klein, also wrote Ophelia, which was her take on Hamlet, and that's how I picked that book up. I started Bulfinch's Mythology, which was referenced in another book I liked, and it's slow going. I finished the second chapter, though. Essentially, Bulfinch's Mythology is Bulfinch's retellings of Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Egyptian myths, and then some of King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Charlemagne (French king).

I can't believe that it's almost the last week of PATH. Crazy.

Poetry Everywhere

I listened to and watched poems being read on Poetry Everywhere. I thought the site was

I listened/watched Emily Dickinson's poem "I started Early - Took my Dog", which was read by Blair Brown and animated by Maria Vasilkovsky. It was really imaginative, the way I understood it, and described swimming in the sea and being swallowed up by it. I enjoyed the poem, and the animations that went with it. Here it is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/

I also listened to a clip of Robert Frost himself reading his poem "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening", which I've read before on my own, but Robert Frost read his poem so well. He sounded kind of like a narrator from an old album, but his voice was calm, sort of. It's hard to describe, but he read the poem well. Found: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/frost.html

As well, I listened to Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "One Boy Told Me", which I listened to in PATH 1 and wanted to hear again. It was read by the author. I still love the line about a car being served in a cup. Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/nye.html

I think Robert Frost's poem was best, simply because I liked his slow way of reading and his voice. I thought it fit his poem. I also think that the simple animations added to Emily Dickinson's poem, but it would take attention away from the poem itself if the animation was more complex.

Finished Tamora Pierce! 27 books in 52 days (March 12 to May 2). Almost two books each day. Currently reading Howl's Moving Castle, The Sight, and Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation.

April

My reading experience with Poetry Month... I had a lot of fun. My poetry notebook on poets.org isn't completed, but I don't think it ever will be (I'll keep adding and adding and adding as I find things). No favorite poems, but I've decided I really like Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems. They're direct, but I can read into them. I'd compare it to Robert Frost. I definitely will keep reading poetry. I have three (I think) collections of poetry in my to be read stack, which is uh, four feet high.

I'll keep reading and writing poetry, but I'm going to be writing sonnets as little as possible.

50 pages away from finishing my Tamora Pierce marathon.