not writing much poetry with bells on

well it is near end of 2011 a year that in the future will be a year a date from like 1914 or 1901
started off well writing a lot of poems under the title basic universe but since i published my ebook online at amazon kindle christopher lantern his midnight name ( to date sales zero) and on lulu http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/christopher-lantern--his-midnight-name/18690777 - likewse sales zero
i have become commercial and thus seen a drop in inspiration where once i could write a fantasy trilogy in an afternoon on a a A4 sheet (admit it it is easy to do) or create whole mythologies and pantheons

now i have little time due to work committments for which i have won yet another award as adult education teacher
find myself down to earth and not a heavenly wanderer anymore
the picture above i used to find very inspiring it is the view of the sun from alpha centauri the sun is the bright star at the end of the big W of cassiopeia -almost the heart of the sky
no longer look at the stars to speak nor make thir patterns
do not know what will happen in 2012 only know it will not be the end of the world -that will be in 2159

lets have another enemy bigger than the borg!!!!!

read a star trek voyager novel children of the storm, just like the series scripts in which the voyager crew on their second mission to the delta quadrant meet another enemy one which has obliterated the borg once and for all and is suprise suprise -non corpereal and extremophile instead of the usual stick on ears and earth morals however despite early promise the tale goes no where except as a usual star trek script

what can you expect from a novel with the TV characters playing their usual roles and room for two appendices at the end one showing starship classes and crew complements. the other the names of the main bridge crew of each ship

the mammoth book of dracula ranging from original bram stoker to spoofs and rips off of i am legend from deathless dracula fighting the nazis (twice) to post nuclear war vampires shows that fundamentally vampire tales are a one trick pony

second chance at eden stange to read a story by peter F hamilton only thirty pages long a lot of backstory from the great trilogies such as the first voyages of the lady macbeth and the invention of bitek some approaching asimov others off target

slaughter on a snowy morn by colin evans the story of the stielow murder case and the crooked testimony and phoney forensics that nearly sent a man to the chair in 1915-1918

this is the second book this year that has governor charles whitman as a crooked politician who having killed charles becker ( satans circus by Mike Dash ) now hopes to ride to the white house via another high profile murder case with the same doubtful evidence

northland novel gone south

read the lat gospel by david gibbons having read his earlier and better works this is a talk thriller a diving adventure full of gas
also read bronze summer by stephen baxter the second in the northland trilogy the first being the stone spring a good book about the tidal wave that engulfed doggerland this second book about northland definitely gone south a mix of absolute fantasy and historical fiction as hitites and trojans fight over the potato crops of northrn europe after the eruption of hekla 3 circa 1159bc as usual trite with the sadistic scenes of ancient world cruelty added over the 21st century charactors and language expect iron winter is about the kaali meterorie strike well i had the idea three years ago with my sun daughter tale

a jury of her peers american women writersby eline showwalter over 20 years ago i wrote the poetry fragment " a woman writer something itself sterile the face blurred and loud " accurate and long overview of woman writers no time for gender in literature you either have no talent i in the first plave or outlive your talent

a renegades history of the united states promised much in radicalism but turned out to be chapters about minority groups from freed slaves to gay rights a lot about music from minstrels to jazz less about freedom and morals

penguin book of egyptian myths and legends ny joyce tyldesley readable colection of nyths legends and fairy stories that make up what we know and love about egypt