Christina French
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Leo Vardiashvili:
Thank you for this beautiful book. It was so beautiful it felt like a piece of music. Curious if you find yourself rereading your own novel just to be with your beloved characters again? (I just want to reread it to be with them in that ratty car.)
Leo Vardiashvili
Ratty car!? How dare you! Shameless slander! Nodar would have a conniption over that comment :)
The Volga is the king of cars, as he says.
Joking aside, I can categorically say I don't re-read my novel for two reasons.
One, I've already read it (especially certain parts of it) probably close to a hundred times in the process of drafting, re-drafting, and of course editing it incessantly. I've had enough. No mas, please. Having said that, the characters are still vivid in my head. Can't get rid of them...
Two, I can't re-read it because when I tried, I immediately found things that I want to improve, polish and edit. And of course that's not an option - that ship has well and truly sailed. So re-reading would be a form of torture. But again, the characters and what they might say in a given situation are very much still with me.
I've rambled, but I hope I answered the question somewhere in there.
Thank you for the kind words by the way - it genuinely means a lot to me. In what way did it feel like music? I've not heard that before...
The Volga is the king of cars, as he says.
Joking aside, I can categorically say I don't re-read my novel for two reasons.
One, I've already read it (especially certain parts of it) probably close to a hundred times in the process of drafting, re-drafting, and of course editing it incessantly. I've had enough. No mas, please. Having said that, the characters are still vivid in my head. Can't get rid of them...
Two, I can't re-read it because when I tried, I immediately found things that I want to improve, polish and edit. And of course that's not an option - that ship has well and truly sailed. So re-reading would be a form of torture. But again, the characters and what they might say in a given situation are very much still with me.
I've rambled, but I hope I answered the question somewhere in there.
Thank you for the kind words by the way - it genuinely means a lot to me. In what way did it feel like music? I've not heard that before...
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Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I am curious to know whether you were interested in words as a child growing up in Sololaki, did you ever write stories back then? Or was writing something you began in the UK? And did you begin your writing in Georgian - as a way to survive the isolation you felt, at first, living in a foreign land?
Angela
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I just finished the audio version of your book and it earned an extra star, just for the fantastic narration. I am curious- does the author typically have involvement in selecting the narrators and the production of the audio book? Congrats on writing this spectacular novel- I loved it!
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