Sometimes what I love the most seems to be the most difficult to put into words. I watched the BBC mini-series Cranford – based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel
Wonderful Cranford
Funny, heart-wrenching brilliance
Awesome Judi Dench
Following is my haiku book review of The Heart of the Canyon by Elizabeth Hyde, a very exciting novel about a group of strangers white water rafting through the Grand Canyon.
Strangers colliding
Adventure on white waters
Face nature’s terror
Time for another haiku inspired by another of my all-time favorite books, Cleo by Jean Brody. Set in the 1920s, the novel follows teenage spitfire Cleo from the country to the city and back to the country, through love, loss, quirky comedies, and family dramas. I’d recommend it to fans of Billie Letts’ Where the Heart Is
Cleo by Jean Brody
Country girl escape
Speakeasy, Reverend heat
Strawberry secret
The Dead is a short story in The Dubliners by James Joyce. You can hear an audio version recorded by my Irish husband over at Librivox. Following is a haiku I wrote after recently re-reading the story:
The Dead by James Joyce
Snow on his shoulders
Gathering, his heart bestirred
Her secret sorrow
This is haiku review of another all-time favorite book of mine by another all-time favorite author of mine. It is also one of the most well written and poetic novels I’ve ever read…
Away by Jane Urquhart
Irish girl Moira
Seaside inamorata
Frontier family.
The Voyage by Philip Caputo
Banished boys at sea.
Survival of the fittest.
A Gothic epic.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:
Man who would be God.
Sad creation abandoned.
Doomed to wander. Lost.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville:
Call me Ishmael.
Ahab’s white whale heart of Hell.
Obsessed depths of death.
Inspired by the contest that I won on The Paul & Spike Show, I’m starting a new series of “Haiku Book Reviews” on Muruch. The first haiku, which won the contest, is about my favorite book of all time:
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Ludicrous mankind.
No damn cat, no damn cradle.
A doomsday satire.
