Of Snails and Skylarks.

(Cute cover, no?) This was..wonderful, to say the least. I love his work in this book. It just seemed more freshly done and more concentrated. And, I could not help but positively die over one of them in particular, the one titled Victoria. My real name is, of course, Victoria. :D (I use "Little Lotte" here because it is my book blog, and one of my favorite books is Gaston Leroux's, The Phantom of the Opera. Christine Daae is, you guessed it, Little Lotte, and oh wouldn't I love to live and die as The Phantom's [Erik's] love interest. Ahem. Enough side-tracking now!) Anyway, I am Victoria, and I am thrilled to finally come across a poem, by one of my favorites, entitled with my name. Even though it certainly was not written for me. (I wish!) I still love it. And the fact that California (where I am from and currently still live) is mentioned in it, thrills me even more. I can't help but wonder what it was like and how they were to have such a poem written. But that's just my silly heart wondering such things as it often does.

Now back to his Down All the Days, and then concentrating on his other novels.

Come Softly To My Wake.

I finished reading Christy Brown's Come Softly To My Wake a few nights ago, so here I am writing my (late) short review of it. Not very many *new* poems in it, lots of repeating ones, which was actually on the annoying side, but ah well. It's still a lovely book of his poetry.

oh, this was one of my first Link+ books from the library. it came from Santa Clara University. :) Interesting to see where they come from.

I think this is the sweetest inscription I've ever read. :)
(inside of "Of Snails and Skylarks." - which I am reading now.)

and a stack of (mostly) all his books I've gotten from the library recently.

Background Music.

I finished reading Christy Brown's Background Music: Poems, last night and I was just as swept away and touched by this book of poetry as I was with the first book of them that I have read. (The Poems of Christy Brown.) There are some repeating poems though, but that is okay with me, because I love pretty much all of them so far.

Now I have moved on to his Come Softly To My Wake, which of course I am also enjoying. I have one more of his poetry books left to go after this one, and I am very excited about that one, because most of the poems look "new" - no repeats. So yay.

My Left Foot.

I found Christy Brown's auto-biography, My Left Foot, to be particularly interesting at this point in my interest for him. Though I wouldn't exactly say it was completely touching, it did have it's moments.

Quite different from the movie, and more enjoyable in my opinion. They are conflicting in many ways, which I did not like at all. Frankly the book makes the movie look like crap. I don't know just how many differences in the movie are true or not, but I intend to try to find out. Especially with the help of another new-ish book that has come out about his life, by Georgina Louise Hambleton. Which I found right here: on Amazon. I hope to order it for my birthday in a couple of weeks so I can find out what her book about him has to say. She says she has interviews and such from his family, and friends as well if I remember correctly. (Family is a definite.) So I hope it will be interesting, and from reviews and such that I've read on it already, I have no doubt it very well will be. Perhaps it will help show how things really were for him and his wife and in other events in his life, as I believe the movie did not. I think they sort of veiled things so it will look happy and sweet - which it did come across as, but that doesn't make it okay because I'm not so sure anymore that the film makers were very truthful, no matter how small or big those parts were.

I'm still (slowly) reading Down All the Days, and I'm also reading another of his poetry books, which I am absolutely loving; Background Music: Poems. I am so glad I got his poetry books (though some of the poetry repeats in the different collections of them, ah well), I am very picky about poetry and his just sweeps me away. So it's been good to find another poet I like, when I have so very few favorites of something I positively live for.

The Poems of Christy Brown.

I read this last night, and was swept away by it. Especially his poem "End". It is my favorite of his so far. There were also lots of single lines in here that I positively loved. I am looking forward to his other poetry books I have coming to the library. :)

Now I am currently reading his novel, Down All the Days. I'm only one short chapter in but I like how it's really different already from what I'm used to reading & I cannot wait to get further into it. :)

Christmas Poems.

Hrmm. I wish I could say this was some of the most lovely poetry I've ever read, but unfortunately, I can't. They were just alright as far as my own poetry tastes go.. There was only one that I truly truly liked, and that was A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Clark Moore.

I've already moved on to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Which I am really liking. I am on page 32 and have already been drawn in. This book I have from the library includes two other stories as well, which are: The Chimes, and The Haunted Man. Not sure what they are about actually, but I do intend to read those two others as well.