Book 4 of 52:

I love to read... obviously or I wouldn't be challenging myself to read 52 books  in 52 weeks. When I first start a book I can tell pretty instantly whether or not I will make it through the whole thing. Its rare for me not to finish a book but every so often one will come a long that I just cannot get into. Then there are the books that, although they are not life altering, I am able to read them all the way through even though I find myself to be a bit bored or just not completely invested. Tithe by Holly Black was one of the latter. I was able to read the entire book but I found it all to easy to put down and often noticed that I had become wholly distracted... and not only by things around me but also by my own thoughts. I kept drifting off into different worlds and would come back each time to find that I had read an entire page and had no clue what it said. I did quite a bit of re-reading. I felt the author had many good plot ideas but that they could have been executed better. I was engaged more by the bits and pieces dedicated to the lead characters' relationship than by the fantasy of the book. Normally, the fantasy makes the relationship more intriguing for me. I will read the rest of the trilogy but not just yet.
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I have never seen
such an exquisite painting
on four legs
Intricate colors blend
together forming wild patterns
As if she were a mistake
A slip of the hand
forcing the brush
to dance recklessly
across the canvas

Only nature could
accomplish such a mistake.
No other artist
could fabricate a
stunning masterpiece
like her
So much beauty
on such a small being.

(a house I use to pet sit at had a gorgeous stray cat that lived right in the neighbor hood. she was quite young, had been spayed, vaccinated etc by a neighbor. I would spend more time outside with her than inside with the others because I fell completely in love with her. she inspired this poem. photos below are of her) When she would hear me pull up she would come around to my car and peek under my door when I opened it.