2010 Green Books Campaign-Because All Is Not Lost: Verse on Grief

So first of all, go check out ecolibris.net because they support a super awesome cause.  I'm a total treehugger and often feel guilty about the number of books I own.  Those were once trees.  Beautiful, big, old-growth trees.  This campaign is a way to educate book readers on the eco-friendly book options out there.  They feature books printed with recyclable and renewable resources.

The book I requested and read was a book of poetry by Sweta Srivastava Vikram, titled Because All is not lost: Verse on grief.

This collection of poems is short, only about 25 pages long, but it is also very powerful.  Anyone who has ever experienced the loss of a loved one needs to read this.  I lost my dad two years ago, and reading these poems, it was like Vikram's feelings were my own.  I connected with every one of them and reread them each many times over.  I am a huge poetry fan, but haven't read any since my Poetry 101 class last semester, which was pretty much the "class from Hell".  (Or so I thought until an awful class this semester)  Reading the beautiful poems in this collection was so refreshing after not reading poetry for so long (and reading poetry I absolutely detested in my poetry class..).  Vikram's prose are gorgeous and flow effortlessly.  I know this is a short and sweet review, but it's hard to write a lot about a short little poetry collection that makes a hell of an impact. 

Just take my word for it and read it!  There weren't any poems I didn't like.  I loved them all, and I definitely want to read more by Sweta Srivastava Vikram.

For more info on the Green Books Campaign, go here.  For more info on Sweta Srivastava Vikram, go here.

Weekend Reads + 2010 Green Books Campaign

I am so excited that there are no classes tomorrow!  What my school used to called "Columbus Day Break" is now being called "Autumn Vacation".  Because, ya know, Columbus was really a mean, evil person who enslaved the natives.  I'm working tomorrow, but just for a few hours in the evening.  I can sleep in!

I went to the book store this week and bought two books: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which I meant to get from the library but has been on hold for ages, and The Little Stranger, which I think will be perfect for a creepy Halloween read.

I also signed up for the 2010 Green Books Campaign.  I just found out about it this weekend, actually.  It's a campaign to promote books that are printed sustainably, on recycled paper or what have you.  I'm so glad I found this because I am a huge supporter of rycycling and saving trees.  And I often feel really guilty about buying books because I know they were once beautiful trees.  They are still looking for bloggers interested in reviewing books!  They have a PDF list of books to choose from, and the ones that don't have blog links next to them are still available.  Basically you get the book from the publisher and then post your review on November 10th.  To look at the list of books, go here.  They want a total of 200 bloggers and have room still for more :)

I wish everyone a happy week to come, and if you have tomorrow off, happy "Autumn Vacation"!  I have a week full of reviews to post, so watch out for those!  And hello to all my new followers from the Book Blogger Hop!