Posts tagged books
If you watch nothing else today, take two minutes to watch this breathtaking labour of love: a stop-motion film of books playing after closing time.
Delightful.
(via benjohncock)
Here’s an extract from my novel, A is for Angelica.
It comes right in the middle of a chapter that’s right in the middle of the book. The chapter is called New Testament.
There’s quite a bit of dialogue in the extract, which is generally trickier to read/perform, but that’s also why it’s worth recording and listening back. You know, for practice and that.
Hope you likey.
Just read: The Judgement and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Yikes! Grim! Wasn’t expecting that. Quite enjoyable though, in an unpleasant, gory sort of a way.
Just read: Bringing it all back home by Ian Clayton. Glorious, beautifully written memoir about growing up in the north, places and people, and above all, music. Also, totally and utterly heartbreaking. I cried and cried.
“ It does neither reader nor author justice. What you end up with is an impression of something having happened. Pale paragraphs that you can never fully recall. Silhouettes of broken sentences.”
I want you to stop speed reading | Write for Your Life
My thoughts on speed reading and why, especially if you’re a writer, you should probably pack it in.
Just read: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore. Beautifully written and found myself totally hooked in some sections, but overall it felt like hard work. I’m not sure why either. There isn’t much of a story, but then that’s not much of a criticism, generally speaking. I think, perhaps, sometimes, a book simply isn’t one’s particular cup of tea. And that’s all there is to it.
Just read: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes. Clearly well written and beautifully paced, but not enough soul for my ever so sensitive tastes. I like sentences that surprise me and characters with hearts as well as minds. I can see why it won the Booker, but yeah, I was a bit like, whatevs mate by the end.
Win a signed, first edition hardback copy of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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