Summer Book List

Fahrenheit 451 is the first book of my reading list. The blurb says that it is a dystopian "post-literate future", which "stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World and a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity".

Kudos from The Times - "A disturbing tale that explores the maxim "Ignorance is Bliss" to its fullest; and the Sunday Telegraph - "No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest."

Looks like it is right up my street :-)

eMag

Just found out that 2 of my rock poems are going in the eMag at college - Milky Quartz and Blood Orange. I am not alone; I think that each class member has two submitted. Somehow, I feel a little strange about it, can't clarify why. Think it's because I had written them a long time ago, especially the migraine sonnet which didn't go to plan. Just a bit sensitive maybe - some of these poems were stuck on the forum at double-quick time; the motive behind it was purely a Sunday midnight deadline. No romance, especially in a sonnet about a blinding headache (thank God she didn't use that one LOL).