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1avaland
Here's a bit 'o fun for the Club Read crowd. When you finish a book, write a review in form of Haiku*.
For our purposes here, our Haiku will be 17 syllables, arranged in lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. Anyone can do this, one does not need to have acquired a professional poetic license:-) Here's two based on my most recently read books as examples:
By the North Gate: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Eden ironic
Rural America seen
Repressed emotions
Four Freedoms by John Crowley
Making planes for war
Ordinary people are
In prose are honored
*we could have a whole conversation on Haiku itself, but the aim here is just to have some fun.
For our purposes here, our Haiku will be 17 syllables, arranged in lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. Anyone can do this, one does not need to have acquired a professional poetic license:-) Here's two based on my most recently read books as examples:
By the North Gate: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Eden ironic
Rural America seen
Repressed emotions
Four Freedoms by John Crowley
Making planes for war
Ordinary people are
In prose are honored
*we could have a whole conversation on Haiku itself, but the aim here is just to have some fun.
2dukedom_enough
The City & The City by China Mieville (with spoiler!)
Twin cities, standing
Between mountains and the sea;
Each stands between each.
Twin cities, standing
Between mountains and the sea;
Each stands between each.
3dukedom_enough
But wouldn't other poetic forms be better for some books? Limericks, for instance:
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
A courtesan robot named Freya,
...
:-)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
A courtesan robot named Freya,
...
:-)
5WilfGehlen
Hey Westford, Cambridge here. I try to offset the length and detail of my reviews with haiku's. Here are some recent offerings.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Brilliant points of dust/ Dancing in a patch of sun/ Warms the cold within.
Ulysses (Vintage International) by James Joyce
Flower of mountain/ 'Midst high Howth rhododendron/ The sun shines for you.
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
A toast--Happy Days! / The wild roses of summer / Their bloom, quick to fade.
O Pioneers! (Penguin Classics) by Willa Cather
Days on the Divide / Spring, summer, autumn, winter, . . . / O Alexandra!
My Ántonia (Broadview Literary Texts) by Willa Cather
Jim's Antonia. / Copper-red prairie: Toooh-neeey, / My Antonia.
The Leopard: A Novel by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Don Fabrizio / abed with Princess Stella / Gesummaria!
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Brilliant points of dust/ Dancing in a patch of sun/ Warms the cold within.
Ulysses (Vintage International) by James Joyce
Flower of mountain/ 'Midst high Howth rhododendron/ The sun shines for you.
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
A toast--Happy Days! / The wild roses of summer / Their bloom, quick to fade.
O Pioneers! (Penguin Classics) by Willa Cather
Days on the Divide / Spring, summer, autumn, winter, . . . / O Alexandra!
My Ántonia (Broadview Literary Texts) by Willa Cather
Jim's Antonia. / Copper-red prairie: Toooh-neeey, / My Antonia.
The Leopard: A Novel by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Don Fabrizio / abed with Princess Stella / Gesummaria!
6dukedom_enough
Cool. Might have known someone would already be doing that routinely.
7reading_fox
And in Limericks. I recently came across this one by Adpaton written last year for Miracle at Speedy Motors
Mma Ramotswe, amateur sleuth,
Has reached her ninth volume, s'truth;
The writing is quaint,
Of sleeze there's no taint,
And no trace of language uncouth.
The two proper lady gumshoes
Are having a fit of the blues
As letters unkind
From a poisonous mind
Have arrived without any clues.
Mma Makutsi has bought a new bed -
The heart-shape quite went to her head -
A client is trying
They suspect she is lying,
And cash problems are bleeding them red.
A large fan-base of readers adoring
Love the stories and keep on imploring
For more of the same
And no-one's to blame
If some of us find them just boring
I don't quite have that level of skill.
Carpe Diem
Vampires are invited
Granny will sip her cup of tea
Religion be dammed
Mma Ramotswe, amateur sleuth,
Has reached her ninth volume, s'truth;
The writing is quaint,
Of sleeze there's no taint,
And no trace of language uncouth.
The two proper lady gumshoes
Are having a fit of the blues
As letters unkind
From a poisonous mind
Have arrived without any clues.
Mma Makutsi has bought a new bed -
The heart-shape quite went to her head -
A client is trying
They suspect she is lying,
And cash problems are bleeding them red.
A large fan-base of readers adoring
Love the stories and keep on imploring
For more of the same
And no-one's to blame
If some of us find them just boring
I don't quite have that level of skill.
Carpe Diem
Vampires are invited
Granny will sip her cup of tea
Religion be dammed
8aluvalibri
#5> Wilf, I particularly like the "Gesummaria" at the end of The Leopard's haiku.
9WilfGehlen
#8> Thanks Paola, just taking my cue from the source.
10polutropos
Cannot resist a literary challenge:
my current read is Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys.
Dogs and natures discarded
Free are we or wild
Tumult descends: no answers
my current read is Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys.
Dogs and natures discarded
Free are we or wild
Tumult descends: no answers
11KimB
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Boy in love with Aunt
Boys first name starts with an A
It happens again
:-)
PS I really did love this book more much more than the Haiku conveys.
13dukedom_enough
Nice one, tomcatMurr. My Atlas Shrugged:
Trains, money, metals;
We owe nothing to others.
Where are the servants?
Trains, money, metals;
We owe nothing to others.
Where are the servants?
14cakefriend
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Outcast yearns for flight
Higher plane of existence
Desires to teach
Outcast yearns for flight
Higher plane of existence
Desires to teach
16tomcatMurr
Thanks Duke. Like yours too, and the comic strip. I detest Ayn Rand. Does it show?
17dukedom_enough
It does. As for me, I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I am very glad I didn't fall for the Rand stuff when I encountered Shrugged as an adolescent.
18cakefriend
City of Bones
Jace, Clary, Simon
Magnus, Alec, Izzy, Max
These are the good guys
Jace, Clary, Simon
Magnus, Alec, Izzy, Max
These are the good guys
20laytonwoman3rd
Adobe was doing this with his 50 Book Challenge last year. He seems to have left us, though. There are some good ones there.
22dukedom_enough
These work quite well at getting us interested in a book, don't they?
23tiffin
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
The world of Faerie
Illusion, dark heart, and fey
Trust nothing - away!
The world of Faerie
Illusion, dark heart, and fey
Trust nothing - away!
24tiffin
A Limerick about a Haiku
Lines one, two and five in trimeter,
With lines three and four in dimeter,
Iambic and anapestic
Sound quite antiseptic
But a Haiku--ahh--you can't beat 'er!
by Tiffin
Ok, dukedom...finish #3!
Lines one, two and five in trimeter,
With lines three and four in dimeter,
Iambic and anapestic
Sound quite antiseptic
But a Haiku--ahh--you can't beat 'er!
by Tiffin
Ok, dukedom...finish #3!
25tomcatMurr
Fantastic Tiffin! I much prefer the limerick to the haiku.
A limerick for The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
There was a young tomcat named Murr
Who had a remarkable purr
When he purred late at night
His master would write
For the fiddle, and gaze at his fur.
(is enjambment allowed in a limerick, I wonder?)
A limerick for The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
There was a young tomcat named Murr
Who had a remarkable purr
When he purred late at night
His master would write
For the fiddle, and gaze at his fur.
(is enjambment allowed in a limerick, I wonder?)
26laytonwoman3rd
Thumbs UP, Tom. (I know thumbs are a puzzlement to cats, but it's meant as a compliment.)
27dukedom_enough
tiffin@24,
Hmmm...
Hmmm...
28dukedom_enough
tiffin@24,
Hmmm...will need a bit of time...
Hmmm...will need a bit of time...
29cakefriend
Limericks, huh?
Loving Frank
There once was an architect named Wright
Who fancied a client first sight
They each left a spouse
The papers called him a louse
But in the end two wrongs just seemed right.
Loving Frank
There once was an architect named Wright
Who fancied a client first sight
They each left a spouse
The papers called him a louse
But in the end two wrongs just seemed right.
31WilfGehlen
#30 Nice! Made me go to the link. And the reviews. Then was put off a bit by the "girliest Girlybook" comment. Still, nice!
32avaland
>31 WilfGehlen: It's the second time I've read it. This time around I'm roughly the age of the characters. It's a great discussion book. Not sure I understand the "girliest Girlybook" comment.
33WilfGehlen
>31 WilfGehlen:,32 See Merry10's review of The Robber Bride for the GG comment. Not that that's necessarily bad. Sometimes the manliest man will enjoy and discuss the girliest Girlbook.
34avaland
>33 WilfGehlen: yes, I just found it and I do understand exactly what she is saying (I hadn't thought about it that way), but one should not be off by from reading it because of the use of that term :-) I have added my ravings to the rest of them.
