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Author Archives: susan
REALITY?: Lunch
Hot piled roast beef (10″) grinders with sauted onions, roasted peppers and Coopers cheese. Total cost? $2.50 each when you make them yourself. Compare that to the $7-10 spent on MacDonald’s and you’ll understand why I totally disagreed with nutrition … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Time Period
At last, a slightly more accurate pinpointing of the time setting of this novel: When the main feature finally started we had been seated for at least half an hour, and I saw with some relief it was to be … Continue reading
REALITY?: Belt-Tightening
It’s taken 19 years, but my husband is accustomed to my frugal ways and so in these times of financial uncertainty we’ve more easily weathered some of the necessary changes caused by job loss and its aftermath. I’m an ant … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Unconsoled Inconsistency
There has to be something I simply haven’t caught onto yet in this novel, as the inconsistencies mount and are far beneath a prizewinning author unless they are planned and point to a reasonable cause. Sophie grasped my arm. ‘If … Continue reading
REALITY?: In a Constant State of Renewal
Science, physics, astronomy, all, like politics, are facts as seen from a particular view and like it, are subject to change if one is open-minded. This February 18th article in the Scientific American, Was Einstein Wrong? A Quantum Threat to … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Time Warp?
To quote Elmer Fudd, ” There’s something vewwy scwewwy going on awound here.” While I realize that my reading in spurts of this novel (busy on other stuff like writing and learning web setups) is partly to blame for my … Continue reading
CURRENT AFFAIRS: The White House Blog
I don’t know why I read this political tripe anymore, except I suppose to get it from the most direct source. The designated spokesman answers a few reader questions and voiced worries: “Karen from Newell, AL wrote “I am a … Continue reading
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WRITING: A new trail
God knows, just when I reach a stage of my life where I’m feeling free enough to draw upon my hidden past to get a bit more risque with my writing, I’m planning on developing a children’s reading site. See … Continue reading
CURRENT AFFAIRS: Some Realities about Being Rich
Reading about the Madoff swindle, I find so many folks laughing and figuring that the rich deserved what they got. But the rich pay big taxes and are the main source of income for charity groups. In an article in … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Point of View
Dan Green’s reading of The Virgin Suicides brings him to some interesting notes about the importance of choice in point of view. I like the idea of “we” of this particular novel. This consideration of POV is of particular notice … Continue reading
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WRITING: X Days of Solitude
A very spot-on post by Charles Deemer on the elation and the loneliness sometimes of the writer as he creates a fictional world where his characters, for a time, are his closest friends. It reminds me of the brief note … Continue reading
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REALITY?: The Good Old Days
I had me one of these once, a very long time ago. Same color, and it had a rollbar. (Photo: ’63 Corvette from http://www.bcautos.com/musclecars/index.html)
LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Metaphor
I’m beginning to get a sense that the main character of Mr. Ryder is a metaphor for a part of our minds, whether it be memory or regret or conscience or such. In another small episode, we get the inner … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Another Dimension
Relevant to my prior post about ‘something funny going on’ here, Ishiguro is slowly unraveling his world and evidently, the characters understand the rules. The rain continued to fall steadily as we travelled through the night-time streets. The young man … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Magical Realism?
I’m beginning to suspect that the dreamlike events and particularly the protagonist’s somewhat unusual reaction to them may be a bit of unreality thrown into the reality, or perhaps a play on time. While Ryder appears to slowly remember Boris … Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology