One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
16 journalers for this copy...
Waiting for Godot
ActI. 'It's hopeles.'
My boots don't fit. Where is God?'
Act II. The Same Thing
Released 17 yrs ago (10/21/2006 UTC) at Convention in Adelaide, South Australia Australia
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Releasing at the Adelaide convention 2006
Promise!
Many laughs contained therein
Travel well with mirth
And my favourite haiku? (So hard to choose from so many wonderful ones...)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Snowdrops hang like tears.
Shy, sweet, saintly Beth has died.
One down, three to go.
I nearly snorted my wine out of my nose!
And now for the usual bookray guff...
BookRay Instructions:
1. When you receive the book, please make a journal entry so everyone knows it has safely arrived.
2. When you finish the book, please make another journal entry to share some of your thoughts - enjoyed the book, or hated it?
3. Continue the BookRay by checking this journal entry for the latest list, and sending a PM to the person after you on the list requesting their postal address.
4. Please try to send on the book as soon as you can, preferably within 4-6 weeks. I know that Real Life has a way of intruding on our reading time, so if you need more time, that's not a problem at all. Either send me a PM to let me know or write a journal entry that the book is safe with you. Please feel free to ship via surface if needed once this heads international - though it's such a small book this will probably be unnecessary. Thanks! :)
Participants and shipping order are....
1. leeny37 (AUS)
2. crimson-tide (AUS)
3. FreePages (AUS)
4. Littlemave (AUS)
5. goodthinkingmax (AUS)
6. lakelady2282 (AUS)
7. Rockdg9 (AUS)
8. red-dianthus (CAN)
9. Kobie03 (CAN)
10. trojanpotato (US)
11. anwyn (UK) *book is here
12. Boirina (Portugal)
13. Llednyl (US)
14. Elddau1 (AUS)
And then... off into the wild!
Thanks for joining the ray.... and happy reading!!!
I'll pass this one on to leeny37 when I see her at the next Australian convention planning meeting!
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Abandon all hope!
Looks like everyone's down here.
Omigod - the Pope!
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
'His mother wed his
dead murdered father's brother!'
Next Jerry Springer.
Sending on to the next person for more snorting of wine (or other choices of liquid) through noses! Hee hee... :)
Released 16 yrs ago (9/16/2007 UTC) at Australia Post in -- Mail, by hand, rings, RABCKs etc, Australian Capital Territory Australia
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Mailing to the next participant, crimson-tide.
Thanks.
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Let's be pragmatic.
Saints, monks, mystics - their faith works.
So what if they're nuts?
Off to FreePages
This will work the laugh muscles
Oops got a smile cramp!
:-)
Released 16 yrs ago (1/24/2008 UTC) at --- controlled release in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia
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Ah, the perfect meeting of East and West.
As said in the forward, Poetry that originally designed by possibly Zen monks with ADD giving keen insight to frogs and cherry blossoms applied to The Western Very long winded Greats.
Or even Western Science ie.
Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia
Mathematica
by Issac Newton
Cherry blossoms fall
with force equal to Mass times
Acceleration.
May I say Poetry in motion.
Omm
:-)
On to the next in line, apologies again for the delay.
Picked up from the mail box today. Thanks freepages, hope your health continues to improve.
Finished it yesterday. I must say my classics reading is very underdone (I do know a *few* of the books!) although I found the style of haiku a little flippant sometimes.
Here's one I enjoyed:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Wild. Strange. A bit damp.
Heathcliff waits for Cathy's ghost.
Women. Always late.
and another:
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Single white lass seeks
landed gent for marriage, whist.
No parsons, thank you.
Will be going to GTM soon. Thanks lmn60.
Released 16 yrs ago (4/2/2008 UTC) at Postal Release in -- Controlled Release, New South Wales Australia
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Off to GTM!
My favourite:-
IVANHOE
Sir Walter Scott
'Who dat fine knight be?'
asked the saucy Moorish wench.
'Dat be Ivan, ho.'
Aegean forecast-
storms, chance of one-eyed giants,
delays expected.
I would really love to meet the author. He must be a hoot and could someone please tell me the significance of egg-dipped cheese sandwiches in the Count of Monte Cristo. Pmming Rockdg9. Thanks everyone.
PS Did anyone actually read the notes on the Fall of the Roman Empire haiku. At first I thought they were real footnotes but no, they are too funny for that.
Released 15 yrs ago (6/27/2008 UTC) at
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The Canterbury Tales
Pilgrimmes on spryng braecke -
roadde trippe! Whoe farrtted? Yiuw Didde.
Noe, naught meae. Yaes, yiuw.
-Chaucer would have loved that!
Haiku approach poetry.
Makes reading them fun.
On this cold winter morning.
Happy travels book.
read it aloud to husband
he enjoyed it too.
put it in the mail
on this sunny afternoon
fairwell haiku book
Morning: Pond-gazing
Afternoon: berry-picking
What a hectic day
Sounds like an ideal summer day.
thanks for sharing this wonderful little book.
Released 15 yrs ago (8/21/2008 UTC) at Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
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In the mail to trojanpotato. Enjoy
i look forward to this one
anticipation....
Released 15 yrs ago (10/21/2008 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA
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i couldn't get a hold of Llednyl, so i mailed it to anwyn today.
it should take about a week and a half.
All around there are books sipping cool drinks under shady palms while other books participate in a wide variety of beach sports. There is plenty of sand, surf and sun here for all of the lost and wayward books to enjoy.
It is hoped that very soon a new journal entry will come to rescue this book from the island and send it back out into the BookCrossing world so that it may continue on its journey. It is hoped that the new journal entry will tell all the interested parties where this book has been this long time and where it will be traveling to next.