First Poem of This Semester

Fragile Things

It’s a plump, white, fragile thing the breeze bobs on a stem that’s too thin,

Obscuring the success of a snapshot lacking the blur.

Clouds blot out the sun, the off white petals darkening with an unheard sigh,

my itchy finger is livid with a perplexing sensation caught somewhere between

rage and impatience.

It’s a momentary determination to be perfect, in the shadow of the greater things,

like a being, a predecessor, or an unspoken standard.

It won’t survive long.

The plump, white, fragile thing hangs on a weakling stem, perpetual sun drenched 

skies impregnate the air with an age long procession of starkly rewarded endeavors. 

It’s dying now.

The sun won’t come so the face is tilted, wilted, a lie. The camera snaps a fib of a plump, white, fragile 

thing whose stem is held by deceit for the turnout of only one.

My Continuing Love Affair....With Novels!

     So last year I discovered my favorite author, Libba Bray, had begun a brand new series of books! A few years back I read the Gemma series and fell deeply in love with the story Bray printed beautifully on its pages. In fact, I'd like to know the font she used in these books because the overall design make these books look breathtaking. 

The Gemma Series by Libba Bray 

     For those of you who are curious about this book series, I'll provide a summary below and a trailer, as I did for my review of the Fallen series in my last post, here: A Great and Terrible Beauty.

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

     Libba Bray's new series starts with a book titled, The Diviners. Naturally as soon as I got a hold of this book I abandoned socializing with my loved ones and had a private date with an adorable protagonist to the streets of New York in the nineteen twenties in pursuit of a frightening killer. The book of course was yet another masterpiece written by the pos-i-tute-ly wonderful Libba Bray. Bellow is the summary of the book, provided for your convenience and a trailer, here: The Diviners.

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.

     I can confidently say I am once again deeply in love with Libba Bray's wonderful writing and as fortune would have it the sequel, Lair of Dreams, can be expected to arrive on August 5th, 2014. I'll be actively waiting with much anticipation for more information to arise about this sequel, and once it does I'll be sure to share!