2017 Reading Challenge - the list

the new challenge is out and I'm going to go for it. Already have ideas for some of the categories. Don't know if I will be able to do the regular and the advanced list. And hopefully I won't get side-tracked into a series (or two) that were not applicable to the challenge like I was this year.

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and if anyone has suggestions for any of the topics, I'm open.

2016 Reading Challenge: a Book of Poetry

Directions to the Beach of the Dead by Richard Blanco

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I am not generally one for poetry, having had it rammed down my throat in high school and college English classes.

But a reading challenge had the category "a book of poetry". I wandered the stacks of my library and saw this little book that somehow caught my eye.

This is something about Blanco's writing that spoke to me. His imagery with words enabled me to see the places he talked about, feel the emotions he was trying to convey. The poems "The Return from El Cerrado" and "How Can You Love New York" each made me pause in my readings to just absorb the emotions and images.

I can see what this poet was selected as the "2013 Inaugural poet" by President Barack Obama.



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