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Books You Should Read
I have fallen out of the habit of writing about the books I have been reading unless they are books that have been sent to me for review. I don’t know about you but I think that is a pity so, in an attempt to do better, here is a little about a few books I have greatly enjoyed recently. They have been stacked next to my chair with slips of paper between the pages marking quotes for weeks now. Where Stands A Wingèd Sentry by Margaret Kennedy was recently reprinted by Handheld Press. Interestingly, it was originally published in the U.S. but this is the first time it has…
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A Poem for a Thursday #153
Don Colburn is a retired newspaper reporter and poet who lives in Portland, Oregon. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Colburn didn’t start to write poetry until he was almost 40. He has gone on to publish five collections of poetry and win many awards. Until I heard the names in my own voice I never saw them whole: chickweed, toothwort, May apple, Dutchman's breeches, Indian pipe. A list was my father's way of witnessing; it made a flower real. And this afternoon in the weedy meadow by the towpath, I'm jotting down odd names on a scrap of paper for no one in particular,…
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Book Review//The Chianti Flask by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Laura Dousland stands trial for the murder of her elderly husband, Fordish Dousland. The rat poison was put in a flask of Chianti at supper but the flask then disappears and is unable to be found. Laura was very unhappy in her marriage; her husband was domineering, difficult, and stingy. He quoted Laura Dousland’s own admission that the greater part of her married life had been unhappy. She had been for four years a young woman tied to a husband over thirty years older than herself and Terugi, although an unwilling witness, had admitted that he had often heard his master speaking in an unkind way to his mistress. On…
