The Moon- a poem

 --inspired by Mirror by Sylvia Plath

I am circular and imperfect.

 

Watching over the deafening silence of the night, I see all.

 

I am the light in the darkness,

 

the eye of the night.

 

I am like the sun

 

stuck in a continuous cycle of day and night.

 

I am everlasting and immortal,

 

nothing can stop my appearance.

 

I am like a lamp

 

illuminating the night sky.

 

I am revered

 

by wolves, witches, and magic.

 

I am part of the mystery,

 

the mystery of life.   

 

It is bitter sweet to watch me leave.

 

 

Lines 11 and 12 are an allusion. Stereotypically witches are depicted as flying on a broomstick, under the moonlit sky and their magic is also typically done at night. Wolves are also associated the moon, because they are often found in pictures howling at the moon.   

 

Lines 9 and 10 are a simile. I compared the moon to a lamp, because lamps only give off so much light, much like the moon.

 

Line 2 is personification. The moon can not see, but I gave it the ability of sight. I used this to help better describe the immortal feel of the moon.

 

Line 6 is diction. I used the word 'stuck' to show the continuous nature and predictability of the moon. It goes through the same cycle every day, rising and falling. It also goes through the same cycle of moon phases every month. Line 11 is also diction. I used the word 'revered' to show the importance of the moon on stereotypical ideas involving the supernatural and with wolves.

 

I used anaphora to start my next idea and description. Every other line, I repeated the words 'I am' to further describe the moon and to keep the poem congruent and organized.

 

Lines 2 and 15 both have an oxymoron. With line 15, I wanted to describe how people feel when the night is over, but the day is just beginning. I feel like the words 'bitter sweet' communicate the right feeling that I wanted. In line 2, I used 'deafening silence' as again more description of the night.  

 

 I use several metaphors and line 4 is an example. I call the moon the 'eye of the night.' In line 2, I wrote that the moon can see and that it watches everything that happens. This metaphor just extends on line 2.  





One for the Money Review

One for the Money was written by Janet Evanovich, a #1 New York Time Bestselling author. I absolutely love this series. The Stephanie Plum series is in the mystery genre. Published in 1994, One for the Money is the first novel in the series.

The Stephanie Plum series is hilariously funny and it is the first novel of so far nineteen novels. I can not wait for the next book to come out in November of 2013. One for the Money has recently been made into a movie in 2012.  I devoured this series in a couple of weeks, after seeing the movie, for the first novel. I like the movie and I love the novels. One for the Money is a great beginning to the amazing series.

These novels are fun, fast- paced and a wild adventure. The characters are highly entertaining. Stephanie Plum, the main character, is adventurous, down on her luck, and lively.  Her luck changes in this novel- she finds a job, finds a mentor, and manages not to die while making some money.

Joe Morelli embodies the romance in this novel. There is not much progress in this novel, but it starts the flirtation between Stephanie and Morelli. Ranger, on the other hand, is this novel, Stephanie’s mentor and helper for bounty hunting. Whenever something happens, Ranger is very calm and collected, while Morelli is quick to explode. Morelli and Ranger, especially Ranger, are both very intriguing characters. Lula, a secondary character, is hilarious and turns into almost a sidekick for Stephanie.  These characters and others are extraordinary supporting characters for Stephanie.

It has the beginnings of a romance, mystery, laughs, and drama. It was laugh out loud funny. I would highly recommend that everyone should give this series a try. I love this novel and the series. One for the Money is a winner.

Guilty Pleasures Review

Guilty Pleasures is a crime supernatural novel, written by Laurell K. Hamilton. Published in the year 1993, Guilty Pleasures is the first novel of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. This series has twenty novels so far.  I reviewed the third novel, Circus of the Damned, in January of 2013. This novel immediately drew me in once I started it.

I started this novel, because of how many references there were to the Anita Blake series, in the reviews of the novels that I had read. It was unreal the number of comparisons to the Anita Blake series. So, I decided to give it a shot. I have not regretted it. I love the plot, the characters, and the dark aspects that appear in all parts of the novel. I only just recently started the fourth novel in the series and Hamilton continues to stay true to the characters and the overall feel of this series.

Anita Blake is a kick- ass tough woman. She is the main character of the series and everyone seems to want something from her. In this novel, two vampires want something from her. Jean- Claude, one of the vampires, wants to use her to survive, to gain power, and he even has a love- interest in her. There is not much interaction between these two characters in this novel, but Jean- Claude seems relentless in his pursuit of Anita. Jean- Claude is a rather interesting character, and I hope that in the future novels there will be more about him.  The other vampire is the reigning master vampire in the city. He wants her to solve the cases of the vampires that were murdered. Anita is very much a take action kind of character. She rebels against being told what to do, especially by vampires.  Anita is prejudice against vampires, and it was very interesting reading about her interaction with the vampires.

The novel is a thriller. Guilty Pleasures is a well written novel. Hamilton created such a dark intriguing world and series. It has action, violence, friendship, the beginnings of a romance and a murder mystery.  I would definitely recommend this novel.

Nightseer Review

Nightseer is Laurell K. Hamilton's debut novel. 1992 was the year it was first released.  Nightseer was originally supposed to be a series, but it never obtained much public interest. It is a supernatural alternate- reality novel.

I decided to give this novel a try, because I liked the first few novels of Anita Blake series, that I had already read  by Hamilton.  I did not like this novel. It really surprised me how much I did not like it. It was confusing. The beginning was confusing, the plot was confusing, and over half the time I kept thinking, "when is this going to get good." The funny thing was that the ending was the best part of the whole novel. It had humor, showed a different side of the characters, and it had something that I felt was missing in the rest of the novel.

Nightseer threw me into this world, with what felt like no preparation, no background. For some novels that works, with others not so much, and Nightseer was just one of those novels that it did not work for me. I would have liked more background and more information on the characters and the setting.

Romance, where to begin? The whole process that the 'romance'  developed was just not enough for me. I was confounded; by the fact that at the beginning, Keleios, the main character, hates Lothor, then in the middle, they are working together and slowly becoming friends, and finally, at the end, somehow they become more than friends. What? All of this happens in 303 pages. It was too much, with not a whole lot actually happening.

Nightseer, "her spellbinding debut novel," maybe not. Her debut novel, definitely. As for spellbinding, it could have been better. I can not say that I would particularly recommend this novel. I did not really enjoy reading this novel. It was confusing and bland. I do not know what it is, but there was just missing something for me.  I would recommend reading some of Hamilton's other novels. This was not her best.