Now Reading…
Now Reading…
Shogun by James Clavell. I expect this one will take a while to finish.
I finally gave up on Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis. I just couldn’t stick with it any longer.
-David
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Now Reading…
Now Reading…
No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty. Sort of coincidental that I’m reading this book now, since I won’t be participating in NaNoWriMo this year.
Before this I read…
The Disagreement by Nick Taylor. You might think a novel about a young Southern doctor in the Civil War, getting his training “on the job” in a hospital behind the front lines would be interesting, maybe even suspenseful. In this particular instance, you’d be wrong.
-David
Nearly Finished Reading…
Nearly Finished Reading…
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
I gave up on Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. The second Sinclair Lewis book I’ve been unable to finish recently. Not necessarily Lewis’s fault. I’ve found the fastest way to “ruin” an author is to read a lot of their books all at once.
-David
SWCFF 2008 Round #1 Judges Feedback
SWCFF 2008 Round #1 Judges Feedback
”Once More Around the Zzzzingo!” by David Michael
WHAT THE JUDGE(S) LIKED ABOUT YOUR SCRIPT – Good job depicting the relationship between Jo & Owen, and the way it is affected by her memories of Robert…….I liked the whistful aspects of motherhood in the story. I’ve felt those as a son, certainly. Being twelve and no longer wanting to hold mom’s hand, etc……….I like the way the writer shows the reader the hurt in Jo from her failed marriage. I also like the way the writer shows us Jo’s feelings concerning her son growing up and becoming independent…………………………………………………….
WHAT THE JUDGES FEEL NEEDS WORK – Need more significant memories of Robert – little things that give us a sense of how things went wrong between them. Intro of Peter was a bit awkward…….I had a hard time following the story. The way she talked about her son, I couldn’t tell if it was a dead husband or one that left her, or who the friend she was re-meeting was. Perhaps this is because the meeting itself is sort of glazed over, and we’re not made to remember any of it as necessarily important. IN fact, it’s this scene that, in particular, made it seem like a dead husband, not a dead beat……….I think the writer just needs to work on making the ending less predictable somehow. I knew it was Peter at the end before Jo did. Maybe the writer can do something to heighten the tension at the end and not make the reader think right away that the person she meets is the Peter from her youth……………………..
I guess I was wrong. The judges didn’t seem to care so much that it was a romance. Or, at least, they didn’t mention that.
-David
Now Reading…
Now Reading…
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.
Before that I read…
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
-David
Now Reading…
Now Reading…
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.
I haven’t finished Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis yet. I’m taking a short break from mid-century satire.
Over weekend I also read Fitness Weight Training by Thomas R. Baechle and Roger W. Earle.
-David
Recent Reading…
Recent Reading…
Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2008.
Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2008.
And a photography book about Minor White. I forgot to write down the book’s name before I sent it back to the library.
Currently reading…
Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis.
-David