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a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now

Tiger and lion (Taken with instagram)

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I love you #eastvancats (Taken with instagram)

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End of an era (Taken with instagram)

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I love you #eastvan (Taken with Instagram at Eye Contact)

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#photoadaymay #17: snack (Taken with instagram)

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#photoadaymay #16: I’m reading my dear friend D-Zomp’s words on the train! And remembering him bitching about this photo shoot even tho he is clearly a babe. @poetryisdead (Taken with Instagram at Joyce - Collingwood SkyTrain Station)

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Lily from Liz (Taken with instagram)

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#photoadaymay #15: love (Taken with instagram)

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#photoadaymay #14: grass (Taken with Instagram at New Amsterdam Cafe)

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Sea vegetable goes to the beach (Taken with instagram)

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Failure! (I did not read 95 books this year)

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, January 3, 2011, In : Book Review

I was the desperate little caboose (with a giant caboose) trying to think his way to the top of the mountain….alas, alack. I failed. I spent too much time on the internets, likely, and not enough focused time inside a book. There’s always next year, yes?

My last three:

83. The Obituary by Gail Scott.

Like, fuck, yeah. Again. More. Again.

84. Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed by Jacob Wren

Narrative how narrative was meant to be written, and read. Brutally darkly comic indictmen...

Just Twelve Bars: On Adam Seelig's Every Day in the Morning (Slow)

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, December 2, 2010, In : Book Review

Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, November 29, 2010.

My first problem, after reading Adam Seelig’s Every Day in the Morning (Slow), and having decided to review it, involved how to curb my penchant for superlatives, chiefly because, let’s be honest, it reads as unlearned and juvenile, and secondarily because I wanted to shout that the work is orginal! breathtaking! brilliant! inspiring! when the very words have been rendered meaningless by overuse.

Fuck.

Ok, Every Day in the Morning (Slow) sc...
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Inventory, Inventoried

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, November 21, 2010, In : Book Review

This post was published to the Lemon Hound Blog on Monday, November 15. I had fun figuring out how to make a chart in html.
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Inventory, Inventoried

An Inventory after Marguerite Pigeon's Inventory. (Anvil Press, 2009).

Legend for Categories
S = Selling
C = Conceptualism
B = Biography
P = Pages
I = Interviews
R = Reviews
M = Miscellanea

Category	Item
S	There are no customer reviews yet
C	Object as muse
B	A writer of poetry and fiction
R	Pigeon was recently a participant in the Studio.
S	Year: 2009
P	Sketch of...

Review of kevin mcpherson eckhoff's Game Show Reversed

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, October 22, 2010, In : Book Review

Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, October 18
book review reversed

And as usual, the Book Thug chap is a perfect objet d’arte. Lick it. Love it. Read it. Wear it. Though la letter fits. (That last utterance was spousoid again, not eckhoff.)

“Are there no poets with their name beginning in G?”

That, and it’s a pleasurable read. Sometimes I get frustrated by conceptual works, but here is one that brings a focus on language and utterance to the fore.

“You said a mouthful.”

Surely Yankovic c...

95 Books Blog 71 to 74

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 27, 2010, In : Book Review

71 - 74: WALDROP, BUDDE, BALL, MUNDAY

Forgive the lack of elucidation; I am exhausted.

71. Curves to the Apple by Rosmarie Waldrop

This book encompasses three books of Waldrop’s poetry: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle (which is out of print) and Reluctant Gravities. May I gush? Waldrop has me rethinking my approach to the prose poem. I have half the book flagged and will be placing it in a place of honour in my bedside reading stack…unless Wilcke fights me for it.

72. de...

On development, idleness & realism: My 95BooksBlog reads 68 to 70

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 18, 2010, In : Book Review

68. - 70. PAVLINA, EHRENREICH, HODGKINSON: SELF-HELP/ANTI-SELF-HELP

Catching up with 3 “Self Help” genre books (or anti-Self Help genre, as the case may be):

I’d been chronically disheartened for, oh, about a lifetime, but in particular over the summer, as I tried to deal with my lengthy unemployment and various other small little upsets and foibles; such is life. However, I was growing increasingly, paralyzingly anxiety-ridden to the point of immobility in the daytime and insomnia in the...

95BooksBlog read #67

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, August 26, 2010, In : Book Review

67. THE HAYFLICK LIMIT BY MATTHEW TIERNEY

Like somebody else posted here a while ago, summer is a difficult time for reading with any consistency. One picks something up, reads it a bit, puts it down, picks up something else, and etc.

However I’m working away at about 3 or 4 books right now, and I did finish this little book a while ago.

Tierney’s poetry is good, just not for me, I think. I wrote the following in my notebook: