Posted in books, writing, tagged books, writing on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
As I quickly make my way to the end of Embers by Sandor Marai, I stumbled upon an action that I thought so clean and simple. It really stood out.
He lifted a pale hand and pointed vaguely to a spot in the air as if to locate the place in the universe where he had [...]
Posted in books, writing, tagged writing on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
My short story is coming along just fine. It’s tense. Weird. A little violent. Romantic. But…one thing that keeps eating at me is naming. I can’t seem to find the right names for my characters and I am nursing some desire to name them right now. I suppose this comes from a need to own [...]
Posted in books, writing, tagged books, inspiration, landscapes, writing on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Maybe it was the extreme heat, but when I scanned my bookshelf this weekend I grabbed Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. I was off to the West Indies for inspiration.
Rhys brings to life the “mad woman” (known as Bertha; Antoinette in WSS) in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, concentrating on her life in the Caribbean, [...]
Posted in books, tagged books on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
We finished as the thunderstorm moved east, beyond the city. We…me and Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. Years ago, I fell in love with Ondaatje while reading The English Patient. So when his next book Anil’s Ghost came out I was first in line, anxious to fall once again into the arms of a master [...]
