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R J Askew ~ One Swift Summer
I'll check it out when I get home from work, R.J. :)
Got it RJ! (I like your style!)Am I number 27? Or have we surpassed your expectations and I'm number 28!
You are insane. I like that in an author... I think I'll take you home for my menagerie.
Yay!!!R.J.'s here!!!
Nice opening and congrats on sale number 27!!! Didn't I say that we'd be celebrating your century soon?!?!? :-P
Watching SwiftsAnd here is the link!
But it's not through the group store, I'm not sure how to do that, we'll have to wait for Peppermint P. to revise it later.
Wow! That is quite an opener!!! We need the Amazon link to the book though RJ :-)To make it easier for those of us too lazy to go find it ourselves :-)
There, as promised, I've been and gone and bought it. That'll be on Amazon US, though. It looks as though it's going to be 'different'. I like different! :)
DD, that is the link to Goodreads silly. Here is the amazon onehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/WATCHING-SWIF...
I think that goes through the store!
Emma wrote: "DD, that is the link to Goodreads silly. Here is the amazon onehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/WATCHING-SWIF...
I think that goes..."
Duh!!!
I think I must have had brain freeze for a second!
Just wait a minuet while I try to bang some sense into my head...
Katie wrote: "There, as promised, I've been and gone and bought it. That'll be on Amazon US, though. It looks as though it's going to be 'different'. I like different! :)"Woot Woot!
Another sale!!!
Thank you for all those responses. I love this place because you are just a downright friendly crew! How cld one not be happy in such cultivated company?
R.J. wrote: "Thank you for all those responses. I love this place because you are just a downright friendly crew! How cld one not be happy in such cultivated company?"Aw! Big group hug (((0)))
He he RJ the laugh you have given me already deserves 77p. Count me in as another sale. Thank you.
Cheers Philip (sarah)I too have alsoways enjoyed life on the sidelines ... tis the best place to be as no one expects tooooo much of us. This allows us to be ourselves!
I'm about a quarter of the way into this RJ. I love your creative, dynamic use of language. Anything that imparts the author's passion to me (OOO-er!) is a winner.
Me again (sorry, it is I) to say that I saw a swift last night. It was our local Natual History Society's first evening field meeting of the year and we saw one swift (there were more there on Saturday though), one sand martin, 2 house martins and a shed load of swallows, swooping low over the River Hull outside the city as it crossed the fields. Loads of birds. I think you'd have appreciated it. A flock of 2 dozen whimbrel too. A lovely evening.
No swifts sighted in gloomy, grey, sullen Hertfordshire as yet, though my eyes are continually turning cloudward. Whimbrel! I haven't set eyes on a whimbrel in ages. You live in a grand part of the country. And THANK YOU for your kind comments on the wording. *bows*
R.J. wrote: "No swifts sighted in gloomy, grey, sullen Hertfordshire as yet, though my eyes are continually turning cloudward. Whimbrel! I haven't set eyes on a whimbrel in ages. You live in a grand part of the..."Where in Hertfordshire are you RJ? (sorry I am really nosey and you don't have to answer that!) I used to live in Furneux Pelham near Bishops Stortford
I'm in St.Albans, more or less in the Victorian middle. I've always thought Furneaux Pelham a wonderful name. It sounde like it cld be the name of a character in a Thackery novel. The Rev Pelham. I don't know the place well though.
Ha ha, it is a lovely little village although a man did get shot on his doorstep when I lived there!!!! And the locals pronounce is Furnix as in the old maps this is how it is spelt!
I remember that shooting. It was a retired Colonel if I recall. He opened the door and was then found dead. And, again if I recall right, no one was ever caught for it. I seem to remember driving through the vill on my way to Centre Parcs in Suffolk.
Yeah he was an old Colonel (Workman was his surname). We all got questioned and everything. No-one was ever convicted, no, but some believe that it was a guy called Chris Nudds who is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the Murder of a Gypsy. He has always denied it and apparently is going to be taking a lie detector test soon for the crime he was sentenced for as he denied that too.Oh yeah! And Chris was a friend of my ex-husband!!! We used to go for drinks with him and we went with him to get some pigs that he was going to rear and then slaughter but when it came to the slaughter part he had become too attached to the piggys and couldn't bring himself to have them killed!! Ironic really, not quite sure what I believe to be honest!
Hi RJ, look out for incoming mail!Have you read any Gerard Manley Hopkins? There are parts of your book that so remind me of him.
(That's meant to be encouragement and flattery by the way!)
I remember his Windhover quiet strongly and i think he was strong on internal line rhymes if I recall. I will have to have a refresher look at him ... and thank you for the encoruagement!
Much of his work is overtly religious. He was a Jesuit priest so fair enough. It's the creative and expressive putting together of unexpected words that I love!
His 'That Nature is a Heraclitian Fire' is just about my favourite poem ever. And I remember liking The Windhover a lot too.
That is fascinating about the sensitivity over the pigs. If I were his defence lawyer and knew that I might make play out of it. A man who falls in love with his livestock and can't see them off sounds like a sensitive sort. On the other hand a proseutor might also twist it into a sign of something terrible!
R.J. wrote: "That is fascinating about the sensitivity over the pigs. If I were his defence lawyer and knew that I might make play out of it. A man who falls in love with his livestock and can't see them off so..."I must admit he seemed like a nice enough guy. He always had time for me but I guess you never know a person!!
Whahay! Finished! What a ride! Edit - Will review it tomorrow.
My, that was swift! I am very impressed. You are also a thorough reader. Above all profound ^^THANK YOUS^^ for giving it a chance. *BOWS*
Must say I've don't think I've ever seen a more fitting surname...
:))))))))) it sounds far better in Portugese: Ronaldo Ascosa, hat! your service An Askew was burnt at the stake in Smithfield in about 1547 for reading the bible in Lincoln cathedral ... the main problem was that she was a women and for a woman to dare do that in those times was very askew indeed. I always wince whenever I go near the place *bows*
Actually Patti, it ain's so bad in Italian either: Rinaldo Oblequante ... not THAT is a name that wld go down a storm at the Cov Garden Poetry Cafe opem mic session. Plain Ron Askew is just not a name to die for, though it is the one that I will die with. Sigh. (But not just yet I hope).
I used to be Orlando Furioso on Writerscafe.org with a cuttlefish for an avatar. Work that one out!
Wow R.J!I go away for a day and you party without me!!!
So glad to see you enjoying yourself!
Hi DD ... nope, party just getting started. I have a case of Bolinger here and propose to crack one open to mark my story's first review here, for which I am immensely grateful to Ignite. And if the Bolly does not suit I'll pop out to Paul's patisserie and get a top end fudege cake, a veritable 4x4 of fudge cakes that wld leave even motor-mouth J.Clarkson speechless. And I rather like the idea of having a party here! Perhaps this cld be the perpetual party thread! What music wld you like?
Should be 'On wings of song' eh? Fnar fnar!
R.J. wrote: "Hi DD ... nope, party just getting started. I have a case of Bolinger here and propose to crack one open to mark my story's first review here, for which I am immensely grateful to Ignite. And if th..."Ooo! I'll take the Bolly AND the fudge cake please! ;-P
As for music...hmmmm....how about something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL1xEH...
Bravo to Jung Sung Ahn's supurb playing. I was totally surpriesd by that cover. As a mark of my appreciation here is the brill 'Appreciation' by Cafe del Mar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnKa7V...
May 6, FA cup final day. Is this how it is for those magical winners who were the number 10 shirt? Barcelona's Lionel Messi, La Pulga, the flea, is one of them, but this verse is about the concept of the perfect sriker. And the striker need not just be on a football pitch. For the thrill of it! >>>THE PERFECT 10
My boot is in this lightning place;
I strike, the ball obeys my will.
O how it rocks into the goal!
The sight that spurs a billion souls.
O now they leap in wild delight!
Some even die (it is their right).
But I, I am calm because I know,
That I was born to win this game,
That in this instant of my life,
I am the agent of the gods.
O how they scream and roar my name!
My shirt, I throw into the crowd.
~
I am the perfect ten they'll say
Now that I've won it here today.
~
Now that appeals to me far more than the game of football ever could!
I like that too RJ, thought I had commented earlier but obviously not!!
Cheers, I think I can read that one. I sense it will work. Needed to go positive after the sadness of the swan.
Actually I saw the swan as positive. Even in the mess we make of the world, the wildlife will often cope and make use of our detritus.
That is very true. The swan was making do with what was around, so there is hope in Nature's adaptability. And it is not all gloomy. The move to cut back on plastic bags by supermarkets is positive and we certainly recyle more now. Perhaps I was looking for a gloomy msg because of my feelings about the location and the grey, grey clouds that have been our lot for a week now.
That's exactly the time I look for a hopeful one. Don't optimists just get on your nerves?
Nah, I love optimists, nothing wld get done without us!
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Thank you, o thank you goodreads.com!
For my sales have soared to 26 in the moments I have been here. Up from 22, no less.
But will there be a 27th? That! is the...
And who might it be?
Would I like them?
And what if I would not?
Hey, you! Yes YOU! in the Camden Market gimp mask, with matching rubber bat! STOP NOW! I beg you not to click my fine-n-high-cheek-b-boned contemporary novella into your...
Idiot, Askew! Under N O circumstances diss the punters. Got it? N O cir-cum-stan-ces. Yes, cap'n!
Nice punter-wunters! *genuflects* to the matt steel magnificence of your installation intellect a-purring in a vat of virgin o'live oil.
Nice reader-weeder, just my type of reader-weeder you is, freshly squeezed. O yes! Now step this way while I pimps my wit and leads your wallet to the slaughter.
O, yes! yes! yes! I'm so...
Let the record show that the far more ominous question is this: what if someone of my raw onions were to, erm, actually like said chimerical 27th reader?
Where might it lead?
Knowing myself as I don't...
And so, my dearest preening paragon of positivism, let's throw this chewed up mataphore to the petrie dish warewolves of a thousand genre nightmares and TAKE A PUNT, Colombus did, and discover what poetic trea-sures await beneath the belly of the greatest dragon of all for those with the slinky skills of mind to win them -- and live the more, amoray.
Set in London's Kew Gardens WATCHING SWIFTS is a...
Ach, read it and find out! It's only a novella so it won't keep you long. Though, with luck, it will raw-draw-raw you back to re-read anon. Much as the swifts that provide the mystical wings of its allegorical flight will soon be back in the skies of Britain, this being May the 1st and close to the time of their instinctive return.
The Poet Goddess Nature and the lore of the Green Man are my gentle and gentling way. I am not rational to the collective ego of the mean (very) average (very) braded materialism that beggars our lives with its insane notions of growth and stuff.
So come on, come on, come on, come on, you can do it, you CAN! do this...BE FIRST! clicketty-click with you! BE FIRST! I won't disappoint. Be first to be my 27th verse. Such a lucky, lucky number ... all those threeses. I will bite.
*bows*