The winner of the book giveaway is Nancy of Live.Love.Read. Congrats Nancy! I hope you’ll enjoy The Society of S. Send me an email with your info please.

Thank you everyone for playing. I hope I can have another giveaway soon.

And another announcement, have you heard of Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon? This Saturday, October 20th readers are committing to reading all day.

Sounds fun right? I have decided to join in the adventure although I can already tell you I won’t be reading 24 hours straight but I will try to read a lot. I plan to go hang out the bookstore and on a reading break I’ll do some browsing (maybe even buying – gasp!).

I’ll do some posting on Saturday to let you know how it’s going. To those of you participating – best of luck. Everyone else, have a wonderful weekend and hope you get a lot of reading done as well.

Tonight I feel like I have an open mic night going on at home. The poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Ogden Nash, Gwendolyn Brooks and many others have been flowing and I’m enjoying every bit of their words. What’s going on at Casa Bookgirl you ask?

Well, the good folks at Sourcebooks sent me a copy of Poetry Speaks Expanded, a book with CDs featuring noted poets reading from their own work. It’s truly amazing. I have a feeling this is going to become one of my favorite poetry anthologies.

For now I want to sit back and enjoy the rest of the evening with these poets so I’ll leave you with this Dorothy Parker poem to enjoy:

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

~ Résumé