Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

Small town lives collide
Waitress, son, cheating old man
Common thread Olive

Harsh yet endearing
Reality devastates
Perception of self

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Gus and Captain Call
Cattle drive to Montana
Friendship, love, and loss

Vivid characters
Beautiful western epic
All-time favorite

Turning a New Page

Excuse the bad pun.

I have written on my other blog about how I've been trying to get back into reading. I've been doing a pretty good job so far, and I want to continue the trend by picking back up with my book blog. However, I realize that part of why I stopped this particular blog a few years ago is that I found it a bit tedious to write thoughtful "reviews."

So I've come up with a new spin for the book blog, that will still be thoughtful and hopefully useful to all of you. I call it the Two Haiku Book Review.

I learned about haiku poems in 4th grade. The construction of the poem is not complicated - 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. Although I recognize a haiku generally stands alone, I am choosing to do two haikus per review, not only because it rhymes, but so I can talk about the plot in the first haiku, and give some personal observations in the second.

So stay tuned for a brand new Two Haiku Book Review very soon.