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Sarah Cypher
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The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Oh, if it weren’t for the last chapter! I fell in love Kevin Brockmeier’s writing for its sensitive existentialism (incidentally the same reason I admire Jane McCafferty’s First You Try Everything: A Novel). I enjoyed his deft handling of what could be a plodding trope in the hands of a more sensationalist writer: wounds that are render...
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The Editor's Lexicon: Essential Writing Terms for Novelists
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Slaughter Run: A Story
— published 2012 |
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Eyes on the Road: A Story
— published 2012 |
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A Book of Common Prayer, although it is Joan Didion's third novel, is a relatively early book (1977) for she is still working today in 2012. What I enjoy most about it is what I also loved about her later book Democracy : a distinctive style that... " Read more of this review » |
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This novel asks the question, "What if our pain is the most beautiful thing about us?" It's a compelling question, and the premise of the novel--that anywhere and anytime a person experiences pain it becomes illuminated so that everyone can see it...
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“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”
― Maya Angelou
― Maya Angelou
“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“She would not exploit anyone. People would not observed by irony run amok. The audience would not have their superiority confirmed. Somehow they would feel like everyone was in it together.”
― Jane McCafferty
― Jane McCafferty
“The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.”
― Mary Ruefle
― Mary Ruefle
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Sharon wrote: "Hello, Sarah, and thank you for your kind note! I am so glad you are enjoying my blog. I look forward to comparing books!"Ditto! I'm just getting into Goodreads, despite having signed up a while ago. Gotta admit, hanging around writers/readers online beats the cacophony on Twitter by a long shot.
Likewise! I look forward to following the MENA board more often--so many good thoughts and resources there. All best to you :)