Haiku Review

[Agathafrye]

Can you write a book review in seventeen words or less? Here's your chance to try...

[Agathafrye]

Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen

Honey Santana
Pure of heart and bipolar
Do not fuck with her

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

Lonely Whangdoodle
Wearing slippers on your hooves
You hide from the world.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Ham is Wilbur's fate
Until Charlotte spins "Some Pig"
Now Wilbur is safe

[Agathafrye]

Love it!

Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami

Kafka runs away
Nakata can talk to cats
Fish fall from the sky

[Merwyn]

Typee by Herman Melville

O! Please don't eat me!
Life here is better than home.
Going home now. Bye!

[Merwyn]

Omoo by Herman Melville

After mutiny
And time in Tahiti's jail
The story goes bland.

[Merwyn]

Mardi by Herman Melville

This story's too long
They just talk and talk and talk
Dear God kill me please

[Agathafrye]

V nice! Melville never got so many haiku's, I'll bet!

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

The Da Vinci Code

The Church's secret
A puzzle hidden in art
Jesus had a kid.

[Agathafrye]

It's a tie for best final line- "Dear God kill me please" and "Jesus had a kid."

The Baby Merchant by Kit Reed

You need a baby
Body won't cooperate
Tom Starbird's your man.

[Agathafrye]

Very nice!

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Checked out for my girl
Whoops! Spilled coffee on the book
Pay at library

OR

It's a love story
Or, is it a fairytale?
Good movie, I heard.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Frodo's Lament

I'm a small hobbit.
Why am I the ring bearer?
Just bad luck, I guess.

[Merwyn]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I built a Daemon
We were mean to him; He killed
Now we are all dead

or

So many pages
With very little action
And girlish talking

[Agathafrye]

Nice.

Devil in the White City

story of two men
architect & murderer
Chicago World's Fair

[Agathafrye]

Snow in Olympia (not a book)

It is snowing now!
Lots and lots and lots of snow
Snow is neat and cool.

[Agathafrye]

"Rant: an Oral Biography of Buster Casey"

oral history,
crash, time travel, rabies, gold
is Buster a God?

[Agathafrye]

I just found this gem of a thread again... how's everyone been? It's been quiet around these parts!

Doomsday Book- Connie Willis

Historic research
Comes alive with time travel
Risky business, this