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Nov.27.2012
One of the first questions that we ask ourselves when we read a novel (or a short story) is who is telling the story and how does the author feel about the characters. Often we sense that the narrator is critical of her protagonist or at least does not approve of some of her actions. It is...
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Nov.19.2012
I've read a lot of books by Ruth Rendell. And by Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. But it had been a few years since I last read one of her books. No particular reason - I just hadn't. One good thing, though, about a true master, especially one as prolific...
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Nov.12.2012
Sunday I hardly left the bed. I read for twelve hours straight, except for food and drink breaks; I was so absorbed in the fourth Harry Potter book, as with all the previous books, and I am now onto the fifth book.
From book four, I would be ecstatic if one day a real Pensieve were invented. Can...
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Nov.11.2012
>In 1959 at the height of the cold war Charles Percy Snow (or C.P. Snow as he is better known) delivered the prestigious Rede lecture at Cambridge University The topic of the lecture and its title was “The two cultures and the scientific revolution”. In this lecture, which he based on an earlier...
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Nov.09.2012
A writing day begins after a two week absence for illness.
Honestly, I thought The Writer had left me for another. I've been working and coping with troubling cold but I haven't heard a sneeze out of him. I kept trying to entice him but he stayed away. Yes, he did have some...
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Nov.04.2012
Beautiful? Other people had called Delphine beautiful for as long as she could remember. Yes, she was slim and black-haired, with the high cheekbones, large eyes, and finely chiseled profile beloved by photographers, but she’d learned as a child to disregard, even scorn, these features...
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Oct.29.2012
Long before I was a writer, I was a reader. I think I was practically born reading. Even before I understood what those marks were on the pages of my picture books, I made up stories that I pretended to read. You could also argue that was writing, so I suppose I was born doing that as well. But it...
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Oct.26.2012
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recently, I was trying to organize my little boy’s books, which were so tightly crammed onto the shelves that grabbing one became a dangerous game of dominoes. After pulling each one out, I sat surrounded by the...
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Oct.19.2012
Ann Patchett noted about JK Rowling:
"You have done more for reading than anyone alive. You've raised up a generation of readers around the world and made it safe for the rest of us to write and to sell books."
To which I add a great "A-MEN"
Photograph: Ben...
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Oct.17.2012
A couple of weeks ago I started reading a book called Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox. I finished it this morning. I was pulled toward this book because of my future volunteer work as a reading tutor for young struggling readers. I would...
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