Mike-Golf is currently reading Poems by Emily Dickinson and Poem-a-Day Collection.
I’m 61 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since October 16, 2010. My reading interests include Novels, Poetry, and Short Stories.
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Ideas - Your favorite six-word title of a novel
FOUND POEM: THE HEART, THE EARTH
(The first three lines are the title of a novel by Carson McCullers.
The final three lines are a Bulgarian proverb.)
The heart
is a lonely
hunter.
The earth
is man's only
friend.
Ideas - Your favorite six-word title of a novel
I like the title of Ernest Hemingway's short novel THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA because it has six three-letter words in it. What is your favorite six-word title of a novel, and why is it your favorite?
Reader Challenges - Looking for Limericks
There was a kind curate of Kew,
Who kept a large cat in a pew;
There he taught it each week
A new letter of Greek,
But it never got further than "Mu."
-- Author Unknown
Ideas - Favourite opening line(s) of a novel.
"Mr. and Mrs. Beresford were sitting at the breakfast table."
So begins Agatha Christie's detective novel
BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS.
"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."
So begins Ray Bradbury's science-fiction novel
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.