Geoff on has some really interesting questions for Ritu today on her Blog Tour.
Head over and read at source.
Marriage Unarranged #booktour #ritubhathal
06 Feb 2020 10 Comments
in Blog Tour, Blog Tours Tags: Blog Tour, Geoff LePard, Marriage Unarranged, Ritu Bhathal
The Madness of doors.
24 Apr 2019 40 Comments
in Poems Tags: demons, despair, Dorathea Tanning, flight, Geoff LePard, madness
The talent Geoff LePard posted about an exhibition he visited at Tate Modern. The exhibition was of the work of Dorothea Tanning. I was so taken by what Geoff had to say about his visit not only the artwork but also an over heard conversation in the cafe. You can read the post here. The Surreal in the Here and Now.
Below is one of Dorothea’s paintings it really took my eye and I had to write a mirror Etheree about it. This is just my interpretation, I am probably well off of the mark. I don’t care because it spoke to me. So thanks to Geoff we have.
The madness of doors.
Mad
You say
I am mad
This demon here
Knows better than that
I just gave birth to it
Don’t dare look at me like that
Mad, no I have opened the doors
Madness lies in closed doors, teathered souls
Clawing at the wood screaming to be free.
Don’t approach, this fruit of my womb may bite.
If you disturb it, it will take flight
Madness lies that way you must know
I’ll not take your food or drink
It will sully my milk
My child needs to feed
To sate it’s greed
I know I
Am not
Mad.
******
The painting is by Dorothea Tanning. It is called Birthday, 1942, Oil on canvas.
I wrote about a birth before I found out it was actually called Birthday.
A review of Apprenticed to My Mother.
23 Jun 2018 13 Comments
in Poems Tags: Apprenticed To My Mother, Geoff LePard, Review
I cannot pretend to be a reviewer but I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing this wonderful book from his Geoffelship aka Geoff Lepard found at TanGental
The official blurb.
The Blurb: When my father died in 2005, I assumed my mother would need more support and someone to help with decisions she previously shared with her husband. What I didn’t realise was the role she had in mind for me: a sort of Desmond 2.0. Over the five years until her death, I played the role of apprentice, learning more about her and her relationship with my father than I had gleaned in my previous 50 years. We laughed, we cried and, occasionally we disagreed, and throughout she manipulated me as, I learnt, she had my father. Neither of us minded much; we were both her so willing fools, for she was an extraordinary woman and we both knew we were in the presence of someone very special.
This is how Geoff describes his book “Apprenticed To My Mother describes the period after my father died when I thought I was to play the role of dutiful son, while Mum wanted a new, improved version of her husband – a sort of Desmond 2.0. We both had a lot to learn in those five years, with a lot of laughs and a few tears as we went.”
You can buy the book from
This is my review.
Apprenticed to My Mother: A beautiful tribute, lovingly written.
This charming book by Geoff Lepard is an account of how his relationship with his mother developed after his father’s death. It is a book that will have you laughing out loud at one moment and then bring you close to tears the next. It is a must read and is written with love and sensitivity. I greatly enjoyed it.
What I would like to add.
This book has something for everyone and you will find yourself saying to yourself that sounds like us or yes we did that! I can definitely recommend this book to everyone.
Geoff is a prolific writer hand here is a list of his books.
My Father and Other Liars is a thriller set in the near future and takes its heroes, Maurice and Lori-Ann on a helter-skelter chase across continents.
My Father and Other Liars is a thriller set in the near future and takes its heroes, Maurice and Lori-Ann on a helter-skelter chase across continents.
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle is a coming of age story. Set in 1976 the hero Harry Spittle is home from university for the holidays. He has three goals: to keep away from his family, earn money and hopefully have sex. Inevitably his summer turns out to be very different to that anticipated.
Life in a Grain of Sand is a 30 story anthology covering many genres: fantasy, romance, humour, thriller, espionage, conspiracy theories, MG and indeed something for everyone. All the stories were written during Nano 2015
Salisbury Square is a dark thriller set in present day London where a homeless woman and a Polish man, escaping the police at home, form an unlikely alliance to save themselves.
Available here
Buster & Moo is about about two couples and the dog whose ownership passes from one to the other. When the couples meet, via the dog, the previously hidden cracks in their relationships surface and events begin to spiral out of control. If the relationships are to survive there is room for only one hero but who will that be?
Life in a Flash is a set of super short fiction, flash and micro fiction that should keep you engaged and amused for ages
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 45 – #Haiku #Haibun or #Tanka: Hate & Pride
09 Aug 2017 18 Comments
in Poems Tags: # 45 – #Haiku, #Haibun or #Tanka, Cambodia, Colleen's Weekly, Geoff LePard, Hate & Pride, Killing Fields, Poetry Challenge
This week our very own Fairy Whisperer Colleen Chesebro has given us the two words Hate and Pride for the Haiku, Haibun or Tanka prompt.
This week my Tanka is inspired by Geoff Lepard‘s post on the Killing Fields of Cambodia. His post is here.
Pure pride can instil
So much negativity
With hate the crowd fill
Why all move as one for ill
We’ve not learned from history.
Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Book title.
15 Jul 2017 21 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Book Title, Geoff LePard, LindaGHill, SoCs, Stream of Consciousness Saturday
Good grief it’s Saturday again and time for LindaGHill of Life in Progress, Stream of Consciousness Saturday! The Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “book title.” Take the title of the book you’re currently reading or the one sitting closest to you when you’re ready to write your SoCS post and base your post on the title only.
Well what can I say, the book nearest to me and which I intend to read very soon is Buster and Moo by the one and only Geoff LePard.
Buster and Moo
Which one is who
Is this fiction or is it true?
I need to read Buster and Moo.
A dog framed by faces
Such a clever cover
Excitement I feel and my heart races
It’s my next read, can be no other!
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Now there is also another book I want to mention which is also on my next read list and that is the Magician’s Curse by the one and only Linda G Hill , yes our wonderful hostess.
You can buy it here
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