Teach Me Tonight - a blog that takes a serious look at Romance Fiction. If that is too serious, how about the Pink Heart Society? If you are still inclined to give me more rope, take a look at Sophie Kinsella's (of the Shopaholic fame) much improved website.
Mush aside, I stumbled upon Jennie's book blog a while ago and found it interesting.
If you read this post, you are likely to imagine Gathering the Water as a serious and boring tale. But guess what, I am halfway through the book and it is anything but boring. Edric knows how to keep his reader's attention, that's for sure. I hope to write more about the book soon.
Rushdie, Pamuk, Manea sat around the same table for an evening of readings
“Speaking about censorship, it’s difficult to explain it to a logical mind,” Manea said. Contrasting the once-oppressive Romanian government to the freedom afforded writers in the States, he said, “In the U.S., everything is allowed, so nothing matters. And in Romania, nothing is allowed, so everything matters.”
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Pamuk addressed translation: “A good translation does not just convey the same meaning, but it gets the music of the words right.” Riled up, he went on, “A good sentence is one that plays with the expectation of the reader.”
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[Rushdie] “fiction is the only art form that takes place entirely in the reader’s head.” A sharp observation. Movies, out there. Painting, out there. Music, over there. But reading a novel is an entirely internal process, one that every person will experience, and in turn relate to, in an entirely different way.
