Emotions - we all read a different book
Today I have a guest blog post up on Love Bytes Reviews where I talk about showing character emotions in stories, and why my favorite book may not be yours. Check it out - http://lovebytesreviews.com/2016/04/1...
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Apr 15, 2016 09:54AM
thank you Kaje, I like what you were thinking about this month. It's a question my friends and I have discussed lots of time.
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:) Thanks for taking the time to check it out.
Great blog, Kaje. This has been brought up many times in my reading group, and demonstrated clearly in the choice of books (and subsequent reviews) by my fellow readers. Thanks for taking time to post.
Great blog Kaje.It got me thinking and I share this personal experience with you.
My husband Tim is slow to anger and doesn't lash out, remains pretty calm in almost all situations. However, when he is in great pain due to tripping, something falling, hitting his finger with a hammer, he lashes out physically. He has to hit something to get a release from the anger. As long as what he hits doesn't get damaged, I'm OK with it. He once hit our former refrigerator and put a small dent in the door...that wasn't OK.
I've never known anyone who really acts out physically in anger. It is always a shock when I read it, but I guess having seen it on TV and Movies, one is used to it?
Yes, I have often wondered why some readers would award a book only two stars or less when I wrote a glowing review about it after laughing and crying with the characters from the bottom of my heart. How could these people get it so 'wrong'? I think you've nailed the problem here. We are all different. We come from different backgrounds, with different sets of morals, expectations, emotional patterns which inevitably leads to different interpretations of feelings and emotions, too.
Let's face it, it is often hard enough to figure out the emotions of another person in real life, why should it be different on paper? Thank you for your insights! Very interesting read!
Jerry wrote: "Great blog Kaje.It got me thinking and I share this personal experience with you.
My husband Tim is slow to anger and doesn't lash out, remains pretty calm in almost all situations. However, when ..."
Interesting - how there's a tipping point for him, even though he's normally a more mellow guy Everyone is different in how they react and one of the fun writing things is to create someone different from what I've personally experienced.
Ariana wrote: "Yes, I have often wondered why some readers would award a book only two stars or less when I wrote a glowing review about it after laughing and crying with the characters from the bottom of my hear..."Yeah - that emotional connection seems to be so individual. But at least it means there's a reader for all books, and a book for all readers. So yay for the rainbow (even if we all have those moments of looking at reviews and wondering what book those people actually read ;)
