under_the_silk_tree | Dream Work & Artemis

My Thirty-Sixth book for

ljbookbingo is Dream Work by Mary Oliver for #11 A Poetry Book, card found here:

This was another lovely set of poems from Mary Oliver. It featured my favorite poem of hers Wild Geese which still means the world to me. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves poetry or even anyone who only kind of likes it from time to time.

Here is the incredible Tom Hiddleston reading Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese (I love his voice and the way he reads one of my favorite poems is so perfect):

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My Thirty-Seventh book for

ljbookbingo is Artemis by Andy Weir for #47 Action/Adventure, card found here:

Jazz Bashara is a character and Artemis is a book, I have conflicted feelings about. On one hand I liked Jazz because she is an self-admitted f*** up and tends to be a bit of a jerk as well but she does it in kind of charming way so I found myself liking/rooting for her. Jazz walks the fine line between law abiding citizen and criminal in the city of Artemis, first and only city on the moon. She is a smuggler with a day job and a conscience who is offered a job that will set her up for life. So she takes it and only discovers later that it is part of a bigger conspiracy for some really bad guys to take control of the entire city. So she puts together a team and a crazy plan to stop them. On the other hand there were some really awkward/cringy scenes that were disappointing and really poorly written. Its like I would really enjoy a scene and then the very next scene was so uncomfortable I would dislike it. It was very uneven. The plot and the ideas overall were good but poorly executed. So I am torn on this one.