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Poetry Plays ect 2022

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1. Poetry:
✔️Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile📚 2/26/22
Sonnets to Orpheus own, get it out of moving box!
✔️Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems📚5/21/22
✔️The Salvage Crew📚9/7/22

2. Play:
✔️The Lady from the Sea📚2/20/22
✔️Hamilton: The Revolution📚2/4/22

3. Epistolary:
✔️The People in the Photo ok it’s a reread but it was so good I read it in one sitting at the start of covid… 1/15/21
✔️No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison 1/10/22
✔️We Had to Remove This Post 7/2/22

4. Essay:
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
✔️Fear Icons: Essays 📚2/9/22
✔️Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions 📚6/29/22

5. Short story:
✔️Amora: Stories 2/7/22
✔️Editorial Wild Oats📚7/11/22
Baby Geisha own, get it out of moving box!
Redeployment
Flowers of Mold own, get it out of moving box!
✔️Shit Cassandra Saw 2/15/22
✔️Faces on the Tip of My Tongue📚9/12/22
✔️Old Indian Legends 📚10/18/22

Beth, I added Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers to my tbr. Sounds like an interesting one. Happy reading!

Karen wrote: "Beth, I added Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers to my tbr. Sounds like an interesting one. Happy reading!"

Lol, I just added it because someone in another group marked to read today and it came up on my feed. We’ll have to compare notes.

Good luck on this challenge, Beth! Great list! 🐾

Good luck with your choices, Beth.

Finished No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani. 4.75 stars. It is a mix of poetry and narrative regarding the author’s interment in Manus Prison. I also categorize it as epistolary because he wrote the entire book by test message or voice mails to people outside the prison. Heart wrenching but to me something necessary to read so that the potential and real horrors of refugees can be better comprehended by those lucky enough to be spared such atrocities.

wow. That book sound really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Finished The People in the Photo by Hélène Gestern. My second read of this award wining book. Fast epistolary style that does not waste words to move the action along; following the two MCs as they learn about the past of their parents and develop a connection. Wonderfully translate. Can’t recommend this book enough . This book stayed with me after the first reading and I think it will be something I go back to periodically.

So happy I found Fear Icons: Essays by Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel in the little book library in the neighborhood park a few weeks ago.

Great writing where she contemplates her her fears while associating them with everything from guns to Dolly Parton. I was never sure where she was going but I definitely enjoyed each essay.

You're moving right along with this challenge, Beth.

Bill wrote: "You're moving right along with this challenge, Beth."
Thanks Bill, trying to knock out my challenges before I lose momentum.

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby was a happy accident I found at the library.

An amazing creative and experimental collection of short stories. 💖💖💖💖💖 I can not pick a favorite. Funny, at times raunchy, amazing characters. The book title comes from the first story entitled Sh#t Cassandra Saw That She Did’t Tell The Trojans Because At That Point F##k Them Anyway After that it is a fantastical rollercoaster ride of stories.

Finished The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen. Overall enjoyed this look at a lost love and life choices.

Finished Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly. 💖💖💖💖 Had no idea when I picked this up last year it was free verse. Once I got familiar with the writing style it was fascinating.

I am also amazed I have finished at least one book in each category this early in the year. Still planning to continue but if I stopped today I would count this a successful challenge.

Finished another essay collection Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak. 💖💖💖💖 Won this in a GR giveaway and was surprised how much I enjoyed the collection.

Epistolary #3 We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Had no idea when I picked up this novella at the library that it was one big letter to a legal representative of the MC’s former coworkers that filed a lawsuit against a big tech company. Realistic fiction of how those hired to monitor social media posts for “culturally sensitive issues “ are affected by watching hundreds of videos daily. 4 stars

Shorts #3 laughed along with Twain’s Editorial Wild Oats. 💖💖💖💖 Ah, to be able to sit and discuss media today with him, wouldn’t it be fun. 🤯

Poetry #3

I had no idea when I started this challenge I would find poetry in a science fiction book but I did and loved it. The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne came onto my radar by a GR giveaway (I didn’t win). Saw it was on KU and decided I could work it into my monthly reading plan before Amazon removed it from KU.

I was intrigued by the idea of a main character, an AI, who wrote poetry to fill the time as an overseer of a salvage crew on a remote planet. Poetry is actually through out the story. It’s also a very good suspenseful and action oriented science fiction survival story on a remote planet.

What was equally amazing is that the author used an AI to generate the poetry for the book with only a few adjustments from him.

This is a debut from Sri Lankan author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne so I am looking forward to more books from him.

The Salvage Crew sounds really interesting!

Short#4 Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano. 4 stars

This has been collecting dust on my TBR since it was long listed for Booker a few years ago. Nicely written collection of interlocking stories set in rural France.

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Poetry #3

I had no idea when I started this challenge I would find poetry in a science fiction book but I did and loved it. The Salvage Crew by [author:Yudhanjaya Wijeratne|1671690..."

Thanks for this, Beth! Off to find the author.

Finished Old Indian Legends by Zitkála-Šá. This was a group read from another group this month. A wonderful collection of Native American folktales. The first to be compiled and written by a First Nations author in 1901.