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LITERATURE: A Summons to Memphis – Theme and Focus
Taylor does a great job of building up by providing the basis. From the title through the description of setting (or environment that is truly necessary to the story), the reader is given all the details of time, place, characters, … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Summons to Memphis – Unreliable Narrator?
Aside from the phone call (the “Summons”) in the beginning of the book, there is little–maybe no–dialogue in this narrative. What Taylor is doing–and I’m halfway through–is describing the characters as seen by the narrator in the first person point … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Summons to Memphis – Character Driven
Two chapters into this now and I would say that Taylor paints with a thin brush. By this I mean that his characters, which I’m taking to be the most important focus of the novel, are being revealed so slowly, … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Summons to Memphis
I’ve loved Peter Taylor’s short stories and was looking forward to spending more time with this eloquent writer. A Summons to Memphis has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while and in my determination to break my two year-long … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Finger-pointing in Today’s World
We really need to get God back in our lives. Society’s getting tired of shouldering all the blame.
REALITY?: Addition and Division
Garner is charged with assault, assault to a victim over 60 years old, two counts of credit card theft and larceny. (WFSB.com) Every one of us has a cause that’s more important to us than another, a soft spot … Continue reading
CURRENT AFFAIRS: What Can I Say?
This post was making the rounds on Facebook today: Catchy, isn’t it? Like all words put together in a rush and thrown out to a hungry public, and they gobbled it right up. There are two things completely illogical with … Continue reading
WRITING: On Language and Change
It is understood that language changes with time. The easiest way to see this is when invention and technology produce something for which language has no words. Harder to make the transition in both understanding and common usage is connotation. … Continue reading
LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland – Finale
Overall, this book probably demanded more concentrated reading than I was able to give it. While I did not lose the trail of the stories, I obviously was not so enamored of them that I let some other things go … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland – Telling?
Not nuts about this, after over 350 pages and into the home stretch, that Murakami appears to explain all the goings on that up until this time, we are guessing and forming our own opinions about. Starting with Chapter 25, … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland – At Long Last
Finally, I’ve reached a concept in the book that really struck me. This dialog between the narrator and his shadow, the shadow slowly dying, still planning its escape, yet anxious to relay what he’s learned since separated from the narrator: … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Elections and Such
I didn’t listen to the State of the Union address last night; didn’t even read the full text the next day as I usually do. Nor have I been following the GOP primaries. The time to listen to politicians is … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
First of all, let me say that I’ve been reading this book like forever, or at least it seems that way. To be fair, my mind had been retrained to seek the immediate resolution of flash fiction and thus a … Continue reading
LITERATURE & REALITY?: Getting Back Into Reading
Well yes, I guess the last full novel I read was “The Namesake” back in April 2011. And yes, shortly thereafter I started Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World but in truth, I’d only made it 200 … Continue reading
REALITY?: Greetings!
With a Photoshopped version of the snowstorm…
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology