big william's world

Anyone who has been to see me in Boulder will have been to the Bookstore - housed in an old ballroom with big rooms and small rooms, busy rooms and quiet rooms all full of new and some used books. The "Living Poets Society" meets there second Tuesday of the month to read and discuss a book by a current poet. Since the group started last November, numbers have risen and it is a great success.
The most recent new member was born in Coundon Coventry and went to Bablake School (where W and B went) more than 50 years ago!
The books above include the worst poetry book I ever read - the pretty red one on the left by Robert Hass and the best one next to it by Charles Simic I will post one in awheywithwords.blogspot.com.
The Road, on the right, I just read and is an excellent description of a man and his young son after some global Apocalypse. Sounds depressing but so did A Thousand Splendid Suns - which E clearly enjoyed a lot. Both excellent descriptive writing even if we don't like what is described.
Behind the books you can see that the Tulips are hurrying along to catch the last of the (inevitably yet to come) snow. The bookstore photograph is a library pic taken in some spring past.



Did I mention my new phone? I monitor the weather in various places I think about a lot and one night the temperatures were all the same!
The snow is still here melting and the vestigial snowman is still visible.
No wonder the back lawn looks patchy in the summer!
Lest you think I just sit around reading I have replaced a dozen or so tiles on the roof this week - having been to the Monier rooftile plant in Denver and scrounged some "samples" - reminded me of the old Marley days! One day I'll show you my vacuum cleaners too!