Cheryl Snell's Blog, page 62
July 29, 2010
Featured on Scribd
Scribd has featured my story Bad Blood,which was the story that gave Shiva's Arms its start. Thank you, Scribd!
Writers Review
In the I've been insulted by better people category:
Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, according to Martin Amis
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 -- the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tear...
Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, according to Martin Amis
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 -- the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tear...
July 28, 2010
Selecting a Reader
by Ted Kooser
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
"For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned." And she will.
Testing 1 2 3
Q"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is a Salman Rushdie novel that begins in Bombay and moves on to the US via England. Two of the central characters, Vina Apsara and Umeed, speak in a quaint argot which they call "HUG-ME", for it compensated their lack of proficiency of any single language. What was it an acronym for?
A:Hindi-Urdu-Gujarati-Marathi-English.
Q:"Its length is 96 times the breadth of the four fingers of a man, which is believed to be his height. Each of the four fingers represents one ...
A:Hindi-Urdu-Gujarati-Marathi-English.
Q:"Its length is 96 times the breadth of the four fingers of a man, which is believed to be his height. Each of the four fingers represents one ...
July 26, 2010
The Truth about Amma
Ever wonder about Amma's back story? You've heard the rumors - and it's true that she once shot a marauder right off his horse - and now you can learn more about her early life in this free download. It's my gift to you.
July 25, 2010
Indian Barbie Dolls
And you thought I just made this up! (Shiva's Arms,page 74)
Who Killed the Literary Critic?
Interesting opinions from Salon critics.
July 24, 2010
Booklover Book Reviews
The blog stop is happening now! Join me down under!
Amma's on Twitter
Amma from Shiva's Arms has her own Twitter account. She'll be tweeting about the book and the blog tour. No, really! Follow her, she's lonely.
Guru Purnima
This morning my husband said, "It's almost Guru Purnima," and a passage from Shiva's Arms flashed through my mind:
Alice...muttered into the embodiment of the slippery culture she had married into. She had expected Ram to explain something intricate to her about this god, something that would make sense of the contradictions.
Here's what my husband told me:The July full moon is observed as the day sacred to the memory of the great sage Vyasa, who wrote the Mahabharata. This day also marks...
