My poem & collage: Tarot Prompt: Star: Gen

Title: Star
Poetic form: lanturne
Length: 7
Rating: Gen
For: goodbyebird's Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Tarot Prompt. I got The Star from The Garden Faceted Oracle deck.

Collage Friday

The train sticker is one of my favourites I own.



And who doesn't like a little Bosch with their collage?

Book Bingo 2022: April

3 more to add to the bingo.



Graphic Novel: I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano. I got this because I wanted to know more about this Baroque painter after getting stickers of her art as 'bonuses' in an art pack I bought from Etsy. For that purpose, it was great. Very comprehensive. But I think if you wanted this for the 'graphic' part of the graphic novel, you would've been disappointed. The illustrations were fine but not very exciting.

Seasonal Read: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. This is an Inspector Gamache novel in Quebec, and it opens on a village Easter egg hunt. There is much discussion of the history of the egg hunt, and I liked that part. So, the murder takes place in a haunted house during a seance. And I can't help but hear Miss Marple's voice in my head, "My dear, if I wanted to commit a murder, I don't know that I would rely on 'fright.'" And yet that's what this murderer [more or less] does. The motive of the murderer is sort of questionable, too. It's a modern novel and I just don't believe that people actually murder other people for so nebulous a collection of feelings and grudges. Maybe in Midsomer. There is also a police corruption subplot which I didn't care about.

Published in 2022: The Maid by Nita Prose [audiobook narrated by Lauren Ambrose, 9 hours and 37 minutes]. A maid discovers a dead body in a hotel. The maid is autistic (on the spectrum at least) and so I was CRINGING so badly about the way people treat her and take advantage of her but RIGHT at the moment I was going to stop and turn it in, things turn around for her and she gets some real friends and everything gets sorted out. Of course, it had to end with heterosexual romance which made me roll my eyes a little. And some twists. Meh. But the narrating is great. No criticism of that.

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Poet's Corner: Each Year by Dora Malech

Each Year by Dora Malech

I snap the twig to try to trap
the springing and I relearn the same lesson.
You cannot make a keepsake of this season.
Your heart's not the source of that sort of sap,
lacks what it takes to fuel, rejects the graft,
though for a moment it's your guilty fist
that's flowering. You're no good host to this
extremity that points now, broken, back at
the dirt as if to ask are we there yet.
You flatter this small turn tip of a larger
book of matches that can't refuse its end,
re-fuse itself, un-flare. Sure. Now forget
again. Here's a new green vein, another
clutch to take, give, a handful of seconds.