Hop over to http://www.ethicalela.com and click on VerseLove to read Sharon Roy’s prompt for today! She’s inspiring us to write haiku poetry inspired by our reading lives – and is actually writing War and Peace in haiku. She blogs at Pedaling Poet. I’ve been spinning my wheels since February trying to get through Forth Wing, and I’m glad I did. Other than Harry Potter, fantasy is not my preferred genre, but it did stretch me. I definitely am not a fan of romantasy, especially spicy romantasy. But at least no dragons died. I would have been in the floor for days, crying over their deaths. And I finished in the name of book club because it was only fair that we each picked 2 books for all of us to share in reading together. And we do things in the name of book club that we would not do for anyone else! But now I want a t-shirt with the logo below.
In the Name of Book Club
Fourth Wing fantasy~
not my genre, but I did
it for my book club!
Common Threads 
Good for you!! Finished reading and documented it well with a poem!
On another note, you inspired me to choose POETRY as my summer reading focus and focus of my Summer Virtual Book Club. I picked two books and am adding your blog and my colleague, Beth Sanderson’s, blog. The idea is to read and/or write poetry and add your “reading notebook” page about it and then documenting it to this padlet – https://padlet.com/sally_donnelly/2026-summer-virtual-book-club-poetry-euko86vxlr3aqzjf
You are the first to see my summer idea! Thanks for inspiring me!
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Sally, wow! After a long day, this is such a heartwarming surprise! I’m glad you were inspired by the poetry idea and I feel so honored that you would share this with me. I can’t wait to see all the great things you do and follow it – and be every bit as inspired by your summer focus. I’m going to take a look now and hope to participate in the club!! I love the way you live and breathe a writer’s life – – from all your guest authors to your Slicing to the party for slicers, and then the summer reading focus. You amaze me, Sally!
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I am with you in that I don’t read much fantasy and especially dragon romance. One of my good friends has made it Big Time writing dragon romances. I won’t even read it for her. Congrats to you for getting through it.
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Thank you, Margaret! I can see how people like the dragons.
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Now, I’m intrigued. I’m not a fantasy or romance reader, but I think I’ll try romantasy! Good summer read maybe.
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I hope you like this one! Thanks so much for reading. I can’t wait to see what you think.
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Kim, even though I do not read spicy romantic stories, I did love the TV series Game of Thrones. Your haiku is accurate as per your prose.
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Thank you, Carol!
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I’m not a big fantasy fan either, but maybe I will give it a shot! It’s funny because most adults I know don’t read a ton of fantasy, except for the recent rise in romantasy. But my students loooove the fantasy genre. I wonder why that is. As we get older, do we lose the patience for make believe in place of something more realistic? Perhaps we need the reminder that we aren’t alone or that our dilemmas aren’t that bad in comparison? Food for thought!
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Those are great wonderings – – maybe it is indeed the reality having set in with the age factor. Thanks for reading!
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Sadly, I did not make it through Fourth Wing; but I am impressed with your haiku and your commitment to your book club!
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Thank you, Lori!
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