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B is for Bookclub
Reblogged from Lost Inside The Covers: I love belonging to a bookclub and let me tell you why. I really miss taking an English class where they make you read a book you would hardly ever choose...
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#AtoZChallenge: April 16 – N is for Names
Names talk to us, readers and writers, dreamers, believers, lovers, children’s names, characters names, book titles, cities names, river names: the Thames, the Seine, the Danube, the Mekong… Prague,...
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#BlogMeMaybe: May 9 – May I ask something about you?
Who, what and why? I really don’t know much about you dear reader: of course, as any other aspiring writer, I genuinely appreciate your visit, and you taking the time to read this scribbling. But who...
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#BlogMeMaybe: May 17 – May I tell you something about someone else?
William T Vollmann Few of the readers of this blog, I expect, will know William Vollmann as a writer. Yet he is one of the most interesting American authors of the last 20 years. His last book,...
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The Children Know
Reblogged from Wings Over Waters: Copyright Louise Hastings 2012 Excerpt appears courtesy of Winter Goose Publishing Read more… 5 more words A marvellous poet and blogger...
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Daily Prompt: Judgment Day
If you were to judge your favorite book by its cover, would you still read it? 1Q84, Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece, is a long poem to love and the irrepressible human spirit: this cover is a joy to...
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#AtoZChallenge: April 16, 2013 ~ Naoko
“It takes time, though, for Naoko’s face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in 5 seconds all too soon needed ten, then 30,...
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#WritersWednesday ~ O m’a dit/Avant-Propos
O m’a dit ~ Avant Propos This translation of ”O m’a dit” is my own. I acknowledge all copyrights: editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1975 and 1995), Régine Deforges, Gallimard, estate of Ms Aury. An...
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Daily Prompt: The Interview
Interview your favorite fictional character. Honoré welcomes Fraa Erasmas, in direct from the Concent of Saunt Edhar on Arbre. Q ~ Fraa Erasmas, let me say first how moving it is for me to meet you,...
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#WritersWednesday: Obsession and manipulation in fictional characters
In Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama Victor Ward is obsessed, by his look – the better you look the more you see – by his women, or at least some of them, and finally by the solitude he faces once his …...
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#WritersWednesday ~ Melissa on Readers and Shadows
It seems befitting, on Writers’ Wednesday, to make space for one of our beloved characters, one of the “little ones”, to express herself. Today, we welcome Melissa. I am grateful to the author for...
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Talking about Maxine
I haven’t finished reading Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, and I will later adorn my Goodreads page with my conclusion. Suffice to say that Thomas Pynchon is, for this reader, one of the four vortices...
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O m’a dit: Régine Deforges’ interview of Pauline Réage (cont’d) #literature
I am posting here, on several pages, the end of my translation of Régine Deforges’ s interview of Pauline Réage (1975) . The beginning is here. RD – What seduces you in a woman, what draws you to her?...
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Golden Years
For this week’s writing challenge, we’re asking you to explore what age means to you. Is the the loss of youth, or the cultivation of wisdom? Do things get better as you grow older, or worse? There are...
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Hannah Silva – Forms of Protest
Originally posted on Dave Poems.:Full disclosure: Have seen Silva perform live once. She was pretty great! Review: Silva’s poems are unlike anything I’ve read. As the video above (and this podcast,...
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In a deep well, reflections on reading Haruki Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle
It is a rare writer who can combine the spectra of recent history in its full horror, the dreams of love, and the mysteries of the soul. So is Monsieur Murakami. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle was...
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#FiveSentenceFiction: Envy
The moon appeared, a moody silvery face half masked by grey clouds, just above the trees. The young woman moved slowly through the quiet house: it was still early, perhaps before seven in the old clock...
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#WritersWednesday: Blank Page, a reflection on Gustave #Flaubert
I read that Gustave Flaubert thought the “Communeux” – the revolutionaries who fought the losing battle of the Paris Commune in 1871, and got massacred – had wanted to “return to the Middle Ages”. Yet...
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Pale criminals, a reading of Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
Bernhardt Günther is a tough guy, a survivor of the trenches of the Great War, a cop, a man who loves women, and his city, Faust’s metropolis, Berlin in the 30s. In March Violets – evoking the cynical...
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Of Thanatos, Ansky’s Notebook and a City in the Desert, a #reading of “2666”...
“Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.” 2066 “Now what sea is this you have crossed,...
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