2023-03-12
I’ve been making my way slowly through one of Future Learn’s courses on poetry. It’s a bit slow but so far I have learned about different forms of poems. The main ones that are covered are sonnets (14 line poems that may or may not have a rhyming scheme) and ghazals (poems of at least a handful of couplets, involving much repetition and/or rhyming).
There was a section on metre but I am terrible at trying to figure metre out. I’m trying to slowly scan through one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and failing. Even though it is mostly in iambic pentameter (one of the most common rhythms in poetry: a stressed syllable every other syllable, ten syllables per line), the exceptions are what throws me off. Reading a poem out loud can be drastically different from reading a poem out loud (if you know, you know).
2023-03-05
Okay… I actually read 110 Hours! It was a rough two days. I basically spent every free second reading in order to make it to the 110 hour mark. But I did it! It was fun and my life feels a little more empty without the challenge, haha.
2023-02-27
I am partaking in a reading challenge that my local library is doing. So far I have read 100 hours. Which means I read 20 hours last week!
It was a loooot of reading but I didn’t quite make it to 110 hours. The challenge is over tomorrow (not sure if it’s over at midnight or like mid-day tomorrow).
Next week I’ll have a proper retrospective on the challenge as a whole.
The thing about having multiple books on the go is that reading takes a little longer, BUT sometimes I am able to finish multiple books at once (like I did this week).
2023-02-19
I am partaking in a reading challenge that my local library is doing. So far I have read 80 hours. Which means I read 6 hours this week. This week was very hard for me to sit down and read… Once again, I spent a lot of time just working on my website and not doing much else other than that. I would be lucky to be able to reach 90 hours next week!
2023-02-12
I am partaking in a reading challenge that my local library is doing. So far I have read 74 hours. Which means I read 7 hours this week. For some reason, after Wednesday I just did not do any reading at all. I think it’s because I got super sucked into making my digital garden… Once I get started, it’s hard for me to stop!
As for the actual challenge, I would still need to read about 2 hours every day to meet the 110 goal… Not sure if it is doable but I have a lot of reading I want to get through so it might work out in the end.
No books were finished this week!
There are some books from last week that I’m still reading and some that I have picked up.
Didn’t do much on the reading front. But I did spend a lot of time coding, both at work (crunch time), and for this website (at the time of writing this, it is the.citrus.farm). Like I said in a previous paragraph, it really is hard for me to stop when something is unfinished. I gotta see it through until it’s done! I can’t say I’m 100% pleased with it but it is good enough.