Tuesday, October 11, 2011

dribbles and critiques

TASK ~
find blogs of writers that i know of
however the results vary and i found instead an assortment of blogs which relate to the writer i know of

1. jeffrey euginides - an american author of the 21st century
this isn't his blog but a person's blog who blogs about various authors and he's one of them
http://writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2011/10/jeffrey-eugenides.html

2. JK Rowling - british author of the 21st century famous for her cult following Harry Potter books
this website isn;t solely a blog per-say but offers so much more for HARRY POTTER nutters
http://www.pottermore.com/

3. vladimir nobokov - a russian american writer of the 20th century famous for his work "LOLITA"
seeing as the author is dead this blog belongs to the national library of USA and blogs about his famous literary work
http://blog.loa.org/2010/08/vladimir-nabokov-lolita-first-published.html

now we shall move to websites that center on book reviews
1. http://www.booklore.co.uk/
this website is rather packed with information on tons of books but the layout isn;t appealing because everything seems crammed up

2. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html
this website focuses more to book rankings and i would definitely refer to this site in future because the layout is simple and everything is compartmentalized systematically

3. http://www.bookreporter.com/

4. http://bookpage.com/
both these websites in my opinion are by far the best book review type websites
its very organized and has various other features and most importantly easy to navigate through

Thursday, October 6, 2011

First attempt at a Tanka

The stove stares at me
Furniture bears on my being
Widow; awry moments
I hear movement over there
Sweet freedom envelops me