Summer Reading?

Hey everybody,

I was just wondering what y'all are reading this summer, and whether you have any recommendations.

Probably the best I've read so far this summer are Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Atonement by Ian McEwan, and (if I can say this without being too cliche) Emma by Jane Austen.

Unfortunately, I haven't done a lot of writing this summer ... Perhaps I will before it's over.

whoa, everybody! i'm so encouraged to read what you've been working on! my summer's gotten off to a rocky start, and i'm anxious to get to colorado and start classes. i've had a few epiphanies, and you guys will be the first to know when they manifest themselves into poems. i'm starting to get worried that everything i want to write has already been written by william carlos williams...?

at the very least, i'll be producing a short story before the end of the year as part of a genre study at csu. i apologize in advance to the prose people.

Karyn poems for me?

So, here are a couple of off-brand Karyn poem attempts I made, though I cannot hope to emulate the real Karyn.

I can't quite dispense with capital letters, but I did awkward line breaks, and (unlike last time) it isn't concealed pentameter. :-P Criticism is welcome.


I wonder if my dog is
jealous
when I walk him in the morning
because
last night
I dreamed of
cats.


And another:


Some blushes
sting from the back of God's
bony hand
across your
own cheekbone.