2016 Reading Challenge Update

| December 31, 2016

How Did I Do in 2016

 

My challenge for this year . . . 75 books. Ambitious goal, I know. I struggled this year to meet my challenge because I had a nine-week reading slump beginning mid-August thru the beginning of October in which I didn’t read any books. My worst reading slump in recent history. So in order to catch up, I started listening to audiobooks at the end of November and through December. 

What I Read Each Month

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

No Books Read (Reading Slump)

October

November

December

 

What Am I Reading in 2017 . . .

For 2017, I have decided to be little less ambitious with my reading challenge, and I plan to read at least 60 books. If I go over 60, great! Check out my 2017 Reading Challenge here. 

National Limerick Day 2016

| May 12, 2016

“Our novels get longa and longa
Their language gets stronga and stronga
There’s much to be said
For a life that is led
In illiterate places like Bonga”

By H.G. Wells

National Limerick Day

Today’s National Limerick Day in which we celebrate Edward Lear’s birthday. In 1846, Lear popularized limericks with the publication of his book, A Book of Nonsense.

What are Limericks

Limericks are short, humorous poems comprised of five lines with a set rhyming and rhythm pattern.

  • Rhyme pattern: The rhyming pattern for limericks is AABBA. The last word of the first, second, and fifth lines will rhyme with each other (A), and the last word in the third and forth lines will rhyme with each other (B). Let’s look at H.G. Wells’s limerick above, “longa”, “stronga”, and “Bonga” all rhyme. “Said” and “led” rhyme.
  • Rhythm pattern: The first, second, and fifth lines must be seven to ten syllables with three stressed syllables. The third and forth lines will have five to seven syllables and will have 2 stressed syllables. The italicized syllables are the stressed syllables.

Links to other limericks about book

A Limerick about Books
Haikus, Limericks, Poems

Let’s celebrate

Try creating a limerick and share it in the comments below. Post it to your social media accounts using #NationalLimerickDay