Paper quilling

When I saw this paper quilling piece at 6bittersweets, I didnt give much thought on how its done as it was late in the night. Now I see that it uses a tool and paper strips.

Words meet

I was trying to answer What word will you rarely/never use in a poem?. The correct answer is a word that I dont know. But for kicks, I opened the dictionary to find a word that I hate. I came across nurse maid and then 'milk maid' figured. Milkmaid as a conjunction of two words. In that dictionary search, when I came across 'Mongoose', it seemed like I was looking at a stranger I was tring to place.

While thinking of folktales, I was reminded of  Burra katha. I watched it once as a kid in my grandfather's village during Dussehra late night.

The scale in this cover page being different fits well into the picture, breaks a barrier in our head and creates an alter-image of the distorted proportions. Mind morphing without the unease of surrealism.
Now I am interested in knowing how surrealists think.

Barge pole

When a reviewer talked of books that 'I wouldn't touch with a barge pole' in writing book review, i wondered what a barge pole is doing here and learn that its part of an idiom.

When nature takes over

One morning, I looked up in the restroom, I was shocked a bit. There was a hole with brown and metal stuff. I forgot that the leak from the top was being worked at. How horrible should one find sinkhole under a home?

Lots of good points

Margaret Overton

There is stable writing. But no great hook into the future of the book.

I like how she makes observations from her medical professional life.

She is candid about how ugly the end of a marriage can get.

Witty biography

Author: Alexander Masters

The novelty of the biography with the subject and the biographer in an interactive mode wore off after a while. The sketches are page turners, some math is well shown in figures.

Grief in words

The line length in this book reminded me of  

Both are of grief due to parental loss. One is prose and the other is poetry but the length of thought is similar. 

I shuddered from reading the prose, as it is full sentences that can hold you caged.

In Morrison's poetry, the thought is contained in the line instead of extending into the next lines but an abstractness protects the reader.

How brave and trusting are the poets who leave a word of a sentence as an overhang into the next line.

Another went both ways of writing prose and poetry : Meghan O Rourke