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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
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anything or anyone
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

December 29, 2016 at 12:46pm
December 29, 2016 at 12:46pm
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Prompt: What books are on your Reading List for 2017?

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This question pains me because I’ll need another lifetime to read all I want to read. My Kindles have over 3000 books and the number is still growing.

What passes in front of those books, however, is this: I received three signed books from author friends. The least I should do should be to read and write reviews for them. Those three top any reading list that I can make.

Next will definitely be Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. I have it and cannot wait to read it. Then, I have several audio books I am dying to get to. Those I listen while doing other things around the house.

Not to mention I want to reread Dostoevsky, who mesmerized me during my teens. There are also several non-fiction books lined up, waiting for their turn.

Reading for me is a life jacket and oxygen. It has always been so since I learned how to read on my own at three and a half years of age. I haven’t done anything else as early and with such passion in my life, including writing. Writing rates only second to reading. Everything else comes after those two and later, much later. *Laugh*



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