Literally Blogging

Few expressions of literature reflect our humanity more than poetry. It has a way of succintly and directly, through metaphor and symbolism, rhyme and meter, that exposes our most innermost selves. It speaks to the individual and it speaks to society. April is National Poetry Month and the 30 days of April barely seem long enough to explore all that poetry is.
If you haven’t explored poetry, thinking it too stuffy or perhaps too vague, take some time to rethink that stand. Poetry has a way of speaking to our hears and souls the way few forms …read more

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The Nebula Awards are the most coveted (arguably) award with authors of speculative fiction – that is to say, science fiction and fantasy. This year’s winners are Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, and Anne McCaffrey. The award is given by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The Hugo is the only other award that is dedicated to science fiction, and the winners are selected by the fans of the books.

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I just finished reading The Year of Magical Thinking. I was attracted to the book because of the topic of grief and bereavement, but I don’t see it as a book that is only suited for those who have lost a husband or faced a potentially fatal illness in a child. It is a beautiful work of nonfiction – the creative expression of what Ms. Didion experienced during her first year of widowhood is called “taut,” by Publisher’s Weekly, “lacerating yet peculiarly stirring,” by The Washington Post, and “a stunning book of electric honesty and passion,” by Random …read more

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