What are you reading just now?

[Govangirl]

I love Yeats and better still Edwin Morgan, whom I had the good fortune to have as a tutor when I did English alongside the Geography at Glasgow Uni slightly more than @$*! years ago.

There isn't a wee smiley face for green-eyed jealousy!!!!!!!!!!! I'll just use Mr Green

I'd even recommend 'King Billy' if I didn't think it would start a war on here!

OMG, don't! Wonderful images in this but you'll start off another pot-stirring party. I'd recommend 'Daffodils' - can't go wrong with that!

[WC1]

Is that the one that goes:-

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vale and hills
When all at once I had a thought:
I wonder what was in those pills?

[Govangirl]

As you know, it was his sister Dorothy who first noticed the daffodils and often walked with him, taking notes. She was with him when he spotted the golden host (despite saying he was wandering lonely as a cloud, but then she was a mere woman....). So she COULD have written it first................except:

Why Dorothy Wordsworth is not as famous as her brother
by Lynn Peters

“I wandered lonely as a …
They’re in the top drawer, William,
Under your socks –
No not that drawer, the top one.
I wandered by myself –
Well wear the ones you can find,
No, don’t get overwrought my dear,
I’m coming.

I was out one day wandering
Lonely as a cloud when –
Soft-boiled egg, yes my dear
As usual, three minutes -
As a cloud when all of a sudden –
Look, I said I’ll cook it,
Just hold on will you –
All right, I’m coming.

One day I was out for a walk
When I saw this flock –
It can’t be too hard, it had three minutes.
Well put some butter in it.
- This host of golden daffodils
As I was out for a stroll one –

Oh you fancy a stroll, do you.
Yes, all right William. I’m coming.
It’s on the peg. Under your hat.
I’ll bring my pad, shall I, in case
you want to jot something down.”

[WC1]

It wouldn't be a bad idea to put that in the Higher English syllabus. Or at least Int 2.

[History]

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[Govangirl]

Sorry History just a wee digression and I do read poetry every single day so I suppose it IS what I'm reading. I myself like it when the posts lapse into a wee chat but I'll try not to do it again.
I did ask at the beginning of the thread if we could do as you suggest and there have been quite a few analytical posts already. Perhaps you could start the ball rolling by giving your thoughts on A Thousand Splendid Suns?

[WC1]

Not meaning to be rude but what's the last couple of posts got to do with what we are all reading just now??

I believe it's known as "stream of consciousness".

[History]

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[LANDROVER ROGER]

"The Hungry Baby"by Nora Nipploff.

[Govangirl]

The Road To Nab End by William Woodruff.

http://williamwoodruff.com/work1.htm

Martin, no doubt you know that Woodruff died this week. The Road to Nab End will remain one of the great classics of British life in the twentieth century. The writing is fantastic particularly the characterisation of his extended family. Beyond Nab End enjoyed well-deserved success to but to me it didn't have the same appeal - the childhood stories did it for me.

A colleague keeps trying to get me to read his novel: Vessel of Sadness as he says it was the most moving account of WW2. Anyone read it?

[Martin]

I must have missed that piece of news. What a shame.

[Govangirl]

I have just finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Although a strange book it is very beautiful. He explores the idea of 'being' and why people do what they do, likening this to a debate about weight and lightlessness or good and bad. The characters are believable making you ponder about what in fact makes you 'human' and the whole book just makes you think all the time. I'm definitely going to read it again and really, really recommend it.

[Stone Cold aka Doags Bs]

About to begin The Life of Pi.

[Malky]

What do you all think of a book club on here?

History

That's an interesting idea History - how would that work then?

Malky

[Govangirl]

Would we need to have a poll to decide what book we'll be reading/ discussing? Would there be a time limit before we could start discussing? Would there be questions to set people off?