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I read widely and in most genres but romance and westerns. Here you'll find my reviews since 2007, with a few reviews of previously read books as well.
In 2012, I completed an "authors of the world" challenge, reading a book for every country (and a few other entities) by someone who'd lived there for at least two years. I expect to tag these books by challenge and country in the near future. I'm still refining my list by adding books that better meet my challenge criteria.
Saint LuciaThis book-length poem in sections, most in blank verse (iambic pentameter or a foot or two more per line), ranges across countries, moods, and relationships to create a memoir/travelogue spanning time and continents. Walcott always turns a pretty phrase; here, I admire his use of repetition, which includes both phrases and images. These reiterations echo both the repetitions--with variations--of the landscapes, and foreground the reader's awareness of language. The poem itself seems to serve as an Ariadne's thread to guide the poet, and reader, back to Saint Lucia and the opportunity to come to terms with his own aging and mortality.