Check out The White Museum, by George Bilgere. I was tipped to it by a friend who reads The Writer’s Almanac on American Public Media’s site. Last week I stayed on the outside of someone’s white museum, and just that was wonderous strange.
Finished Rabbit, Run this weekend for book club; will have more to say (esp. about his amazing tricks with POV) after I’ve digested it a bit more.
But one thing I was reading for was how he depicts anger. I’m trying to build more “emotion” into my stories, as left to our own devices my [...]
I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of my friends in book club raved about it so much we decided it would be our book of the month this month (next month is Rabbit Run, in eerie timing). I was all for it, but others took a bit longer to be convinced, [...]
Two comments on Saturday struck me. One, at a workshop for apprentice and master fiction writers, from a multi-published writer: Jane Austen is fun to read, and to read in many ways, and to re-read..
but we don’t need to hold ourselves up that high.
She aims for a level that would be fun to read [...]
Last month, I had to move everything out of my office room—including two giant bookshelves stuffed with books and 7 office tubs filled with more books—so we could lay down insulation and carpet in an attempt to keep the room above mitten-weather temperatures. We succeeded (I’m typing this without wearing my fingerless gloves!), but the [...]
One of the many great things about book club is I can never predict who will hate (or love) the book. One of our sweetest members has raved about and read and re-read the bleakness that is The Road, one story I thought she’d give up on. And this time, two people just absolutey hated [...]
While following the argle-bargle over rights to the Watchmen movie (I might have made sure I had the rights before spending millions to make a film, but that’s me), I finally caved in and read the alternate-apocalyptic 12-issue graphic series. After all, it’s had a place of honor on the shelves of every man I’ve [...]
This year, I will:
• write consistently more than 50 hours per month (12-15 hrs/wk)
• finish 2 submittable books
• build up ideas for 3 new books
• enter 3 RWA-linked writing contests
• volunteer to judge 3 or more writing contests
• continue to volunteer as WRW Web goddess
• attend 2 writing retreats or classes
• read 50 books
• keep [...]
Still on the fantasy/SF kick, I just finished the first two Ender novels by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, and now I’m all political-philosophical. I was completely hooked by the brainiac-thriller Ender’s Game; read it in all my “spare” time (on the Metro, at lunch, on the Metro, after dinner) [...]
This month’s bookclub book was A Room with a View, so I read the book and watched both the theatrical film and the newer BBC version. Also found a great travel story in the New York Time on traveling through Florence the way E.M. Forster does in the book, not the way Baedeker’s (or Fodor’s, [...]
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Posted 08 December 2008
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