Bøger af Holly Snow Sillau

LMAO is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-third book. It's a poetic collection of 131 commonly used internet and texting acronyms. The author has written two six-line poems for each acronym. One contains the acronym itself, and the other has the abbreviation written out. The reader is challenged to decipher the meaning of each acronym prior to reading the second of the two poems. If you use the internet or if you send and receive text messages, you're sure to enjoy LMAO. You may even find yourself saying, "I'm LMAO!" By the way, LMAO stands for laughing my *ss off.

Cut It Out, Holly Sillau's thirteenth book, is a collection of 200 original ten-line poems. Each involves a pleonasm (redundant expression) used by English-language speakers. Holly's love of words, her sense of humor, and her heartfelt advice are cleverly displayed throughout her poetry. Since this book was written longhand with Holly's nondominant hand, it's illustrative of her determination and hard work--two qualities that helped her acclimate to great personal loss. There's lots to enjoy and lots to learn from this author's creations, so enjoy and learn!

A Proper Copper Coffeepot is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-fourth book. It's a collection of 101 original twelve-line poems. Each contains a humorous rendition of a common English-language tongue twister. Besides the challenges of pronouncing the difficult lines, readers are afforded the opportunity to smile, to laugh, to relax, and to enjoy. So please do!

This is Holly Sillau's twentieth book. It's a fully illustrated collection of 108 original quatrains. Each discusses a common superstition. Some may be familiar to you, and some may enlighten you about how lots of people think this world is run! So relax, read, and enjoy, but be careful not to break the book's spine. If you do, you'll be afflicted with back pain every year on the anniversary of the day you took your chances!

First Day is Holly Sillau's twenty-second book. Her first four are about grief, and the next seventeen cover topics of a humorous nature, wordplay, and travel. Some are books of poetry, and others are novels about history, psychology, and such. This book marks her return to the subject of grief and describes each aspect of the first day of her lifelong journey. It's written in the stream of consciousness style and brings to life the scattered thoughts of a mother as she begins to reckon with the loss of her only child. Keep your tissues handy as you experience each pang of her pain and guilt right along with her--a woman brave enough to let you into her psyche.