[stylist] Pick Your Poison

Fri Nov 28 15:10:21 UTC 2014

As for my poisonous reading of late, I've just finished "The Human Division" a book in John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series.  I felt is was pretty good (some flaws but a good read).

I recently finished "Mormon Christianity" by Stephen Webb and got over my head theologically.  My response to people who are trying to figure out what stuff God is made of is to through up my hans as say I don't know (and neither does anyone else).

I also read a book of editorials by Charles Krauthammer (quite good and interesting.

Beyond that I've been reading magazines (Analog, Asimov's and The Writer).

On my planned reading list "All the Light We Cannot See" and Twenty First Century Science Fiction.

Good reading Ya'll.

Shawn

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>    1. Name Your Poison (William L Houts)
>    2. Cruising, Thanksgiving and a poem (Jackie Williams)
>    3. Re: Cruising, Thanksgiving and a poem (William L Houts)
>    4. Poem - "Memory" - First Draft (William L Houts)
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> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:27:39 -0800
> From: William L Houts <lukaeon at gmail.com>
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] Name Your Poison
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> Hey Gang,
>
> I've been spending a lot of time with my Victor Reader Stream and
> wondered if any of you heavy readers used that or or one of the other
> digital readers.  Right now I'm listening to Marion Zimmer Bradley's
> "The Mists of Avalon", a book which,k when I read it twenty years ago,
> I thought was too feministy or something, but which turns out to be a
> galloping good read the second time through and many years later.
> Recently, I've also been through one of Michael Moorcock's Elric books
> and part of M. John Harrison's fabled "Viriconium" stories.  I've also
> lined up biographies of Teddy Roosevelt and Oscar Wilde.  So, at the
> risk of sounding vaguely obscene, spill your cornucopia, pilgrims.
>
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:28:50 -0700
> From: "Jackie Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
> To: <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
> Cc: 'Writer's Division Mailing List' <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] Cruising, Thanksgiving and a poem
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> Cheryl,
> Such an active and positive role you have for the blind. Though I am
> no longer able to take advantage of travel, I look back wistfully at
> my last cruise when I asked to take one of their menus home with me.
> This is what it inspired. You have my permission to use it in any way
> that might drum up business. Let me know what you think and if or how
> you might use it.
> The spellings and items are right off the menu. Great fun to do.
> I will cut and paste for the list, for I think most do not read my
> poems as an attachment, but for you, Cheryl, the attachment should
> have the line lengths as written. Keep in mind, that if you do not use
> it, I must know so I am free to submit it elsewhere.
> Have a happy holiday to everyone and enjoy your feasts as much as I
> did with this menu.
>
> Jacqueline Williams                           #2
> 1431 W. 7th Place                                           Humorous
> Mesa, AZ 85201                                              Oblivion-a la
> Mode
> jackieleepoet at cox.net
> 480-834-1782
>
> Oblivion-a la Mode
>             After Wallace Stevens
>
> About to be transported around the world inspired by food alone, the
> cruise ship steward seats me.
> My healthful choices will embody a new me.
>
> In morning oatmeal-walnuts, raisins, vanilla soy milk, cinnamon, and
> brown sugar-become just one.
>
> Among my super healthful foods, blueberries, in a tart, snow cloud on
> top.
> The only moving thing-sweet dripping coulis.
>
> For lunch-Cognac and whipped cream whirled into tomato
> bisque-lycopenes supreme.
>
> I am of "King Salmon" mind.
> Seared, the omega 3s seep into
> three mounds of parslied potatoes.
>
> I do not know which to prefer for my red fruit- chilled berry-cumin
> yogurt or cherries jubilee, jaconde biscuit alize or strawberry
> cheesecake.
> Raspberry ice cream beckons-just after.
>
> Batons of steamed vegetables fill my view.
> Moody crab cakes lie in wait.
> Ah, yes, citrus caramel soya sauce
> now crosses them to and fro.
> The bliss of my healthful pursuit comforts me.
>
> Oh, thin women of my age,
> why do you image size 6 gowns?
> Do you not see the Baked Alaska
> being served around the table?
>
>
>
>
> (stanza break)
>
> I know the hallowed fiber
>
> in whole grains. But I know also
> that calcium is involved
> in bastoncini with polenta
> covered well in Fontana cheese sauce.
>
> When pear honey gratin and apricot dartose
>
> fly from my plate, it marks the transition to a more ample me.
>
> At the sight of noble greens, I rejoice- artichoke and heart of palm,
> sun-dried tomatoes.
> "More balsamic walnut oil dressing, please."
> Even the waiter gasps sharply.
>
> Anticipating spinach turnovers
> nestled in pastry puffs,
> I hesitate when I see asparagus
> baked in rich egg custard topped with cheese.
> Mistakenly, I order both.
>
> The food is blurring.
> The seams are separating.
>
> This evening, seafood sausages and seafood croustade coated in saffron
> sauce resting on a bed of rice pilaf, will sit on my hips, my tum, my
> bum, my limbs- a Titanic sunken below the waves of fat-forever.
>
>
> Jackie
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
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> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:21:26 -0800
> From: William L Houts <lukaeon at gmail.com>
> To: Jackie Williams <jackieleepoet at cox.net>,  Writer's Division
>       Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>,      cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Cruising, Thanksgiving and a poem
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>
> HI Jackie,
>
> It was fun to read this poem with an eye towards discovering how it
> takes some of its breath from Wallace Stevens.  And I see it
> especially in the "thin women" line, as in Stevens's "O think men of
> Haddam...", and with the tasty imagery of the rest of the poem.  A very pleasant read!
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/26/2014 10:28 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
>> Cheryl,
>> Such an active and positive role you have for the blind. Though I am
>> no longer able to take advantage of travel, I look back wistfully at
>> my last cruise when I asked to take one of their menus home with me.
>> This is what it inspired. You have my permission to use it in any way
>> that might drum up business. Let me know what you think and if or how
>> you might use it.
>> The spellings and items are right off the menu. Great fun to do.
>> I will cut and paste for the list, for I think most do not read my
>> poems as an attachment, but for you, Cheryl, the attachment should
>> have the line lengths as written. Keep in mind, that if you do not
>> use it, I must know so I am free to submit it elsewhere.
>> Have a happy holiday to everyone and enjoy your feasts as much as I
>> did with this menu.
>>
>> Jacqueline Williams                           #2
>> 1431 W. 7th Place                                           Humorous
>> Mesa, AZ 85201                                              Oblivion-a la
>> Mode
>> jackieleepoet at cox.net
>> 480-834-1782
>>
>> Oblivion-a la Mode
>>              After Wallace Stevens
>>
>> About to be transported around the world inspired by food alone, the
>> cruise ship steward seats me.
>> My healthful choices will embody a new me.
>>
>> In morning oatmeal-walnuts, raisins, vanilla soy milk, cinnamon, and
>> brown sugar-become just one.
>>
>> Among my super healthful foods, blueberries, in a tart, snow cloud on
>> top.
>> The only moving thing-sweet dripping coulis.
>>
>> For lunch-Cognac and whipped cream whirled into tomato
>> bisque-lycopenes supreme.
>>
>> I am of "King Salmon" mind.
>> Seared, the omega 3s seep into
>> three mounds of parslied potatoes.
>>
>> I do not know which to prefer for my red fruit- chilled berry-cumin
>> yogurt or cherries jubilee, jaconde biscuit alize or strawberry
>> cheesecake.
>> Raspberry ice cream beckons-just after.
>>
>> Batons of steamed vegetables fill my view.
>> Moody crab cakes lie in wait.
>> Ah, yes, citrus caramel soya sauce
>> now crosses them to and fro.
>> The bliss of my healthful pursuit comforts me.
>>
>> Oh, thin women of my age,
>> why do you image size 6 gowns?
>> Do you not see the Baked Alaska
>> being served around the table?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> (stanza break)
>>
>> I know the hallowed fiber
>>
>> in whole grains. But I know also
>> that calcium is involved
>> in bastoncini with polenta
>> covered well in Fontana cheese sauce.
>>
>> When pear honey gratin and apricot dartose
>>
>> fly from my plate, it marks the transition to a more ample me.
>>
>> At the sight of noble greens, I rejoice- artichoke and heart of palm,
>> sun-dried tomatoes.
>> "More balsamic walnut oil dressing, please."
>> Even the waiter gasps sharply.
>>
>> Anticipating spinach turnovers
>> nestled in pastry puffs,
>> I hesitate when I see asparagus
>> baked in rich egg custard topped with cheese.
>> Mistakenly, I order both.
>>
>> The food is blurring.
>> The seams are separating.
>>
>> This evening, seafood sausages and seafood croustade coated in
>> saffron sauce resting on a bed of rice pilaf, will sit on my hips, my
>> tum, my bum, my limbs- a Titanic sunken below the waves of
>> fat-forever.
>>
>>
>> Jackie
>>
>> Time is the school in which we learn.
>> Time is the fire in which we burn.
>> Delmore Schwartz
>>
>>
>>
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>
> --
>
>
> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:35:05 -0800
> From: William L Houts <lukaeon at gmail.com>
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Memory" - First Draft
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>
> HI Listers,
>
> Here's this morning's poem.  I'm pretty pleased with it, although it
> seems too short.  Still by  my lights it constitutes an advance in the
> way I approach my poetry.  I'm fairly confident about the value of my
> work, but there's been a trend towards certain devices and the logic.
> In brief, I feel that some of my poems have a kind of hidden locked
> down aspect.  I mean, the rhythm and rhyme feels good to me, but I
> feel there's a kind of ABC linear aspect to my poems.  There are
> resonances and rhymbs, and I'm all fine with that, but I might have
> been more free with associations, more able to let the poem
> constellate around ideas rather than language.
>
> Anyway.  Enjoy, if you will.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
> ---
>
>
> Memory
>
> I was weaned on the hornpipe duet;
>
> the ferry on our cold inland sea,
>
> landing within blocks with a blast
>
> of trumpetlike steel; and the trains,
>
> with their double sharp peal:
>
> somehow a plaintive bull's bawling,
>
> a brass bishop calling the faithful,
>
> the hopeful of heaven to prayer.
>
> No angels there, though, the chorus
>
> is earth-called, man-souled and sea-told,
>
> a father's voice faintly fished up
>
> from memory's Sargasso-like bay:
>
> a picnic, a car wash or porch,
>
> recalled for three minutes one day.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
>
>
>
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Hi Bill,

New reader to the Stylist and my response to your message is that I don't use a Victor Reader Stream, I will be introduced to one while I stay at the Daytona Beach Blind Rehab Center through my Devices class.
I do use the Talking Book Library services with the braille books, digital cartridges, and tapes and I do use JAWS with FS Reader to read books from Bookshare. I also have the IBooks and Kindel apps on my phone. I love to read and it does help me to write.

The books that I have a big guilty pleasure for are the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher and anything by Lara Adrian, especially her Midnight Breed Series. My fiancé got me into The Dresden Files back in
2010 and then downloaded the first book, Storm Front, and was hooked!
I even spent my entire evening after coming home from school reading the rest of Fool Moon (That's the name of book 2 since it deals with
werewolves!) because of the twists and turns it took every page turn!
I even enjoyed reading the digital format from Talking Book Library and how the reader did the accents for different characters, how he made his voice sound a bit more like  a woman. The books are amazing and now waiting on book 15, Skin Game, to be recorded by the Talking Book Library and waiting on the next one to be written. While Lara Adrian's works, I was sucked in pretty quickly! I was searching for the Vampire Academy books to see where the first movie was based on and found the Midnight Breed Series 10 book bundle on Bookshare and downloaded it. I couldn't close FS Reader due to how many twists and turns came up and how each vampire character and the female they came across with a special birth mark have their own tale and sadness with each page turn. I guess romance novels know how to suck you in. I am reading her newest work with Lisa Folsom, Cut and Run, which are the first two books of a new series.

Well, that is about it!
Marinela

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