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Author Archives: susan
LITERATURE: The Handmaid’s Tale – Pace And Theme
A third of the way through, I find that we’ve only covered about three days in the present. The backstory is in layers: Offred’s past, just prior to this when she was "in training"; her life with her husband and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Handmaid’s Tale – Style
First of all, the sci-fi element surprised me–being an Atwood novel. But she (who I can’t help but say reminds me of Rhea Perlman [Carla on Cheers] ) has always played a bit with time and the lives of her … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Up Next – The Handmaid’s Tale
Tough decision–what to read next. But with about 150 books on the shelf, all now nice and neatly alphabetized by author, it’s quite a delight to be able to browse and pull out what strikes me. There are quite a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: On The Road – Finale
Reading paced along with Dean’s rush cross country, and we end up in Mexico, and with a clearer view of Dean although I still don’t feel my perception of Sal Paradise is complete. Sal does find love back in the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Road – Theme
Obviously the theme here is the road unraveling before them, offering directions, paths, choices, blah, blah, blah. And here is one of the damned few references to Sal Paradise’s purpose of taking this physical road trip: I took up a … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Road – Writing Style
A couple things I’m noticing with Kerouac: If I go to copy and type out an excerpt I cannot remember the short grouping of words accurately, and find myself "rewriting" what he’s written. Odd, because in all the posts of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Road – Story
I’m still slogging my way through this, wondering why in hell these guys are doing such dumb things, then I remember. I do of course remember this prelude to my own youth, but these yearnings for a better world in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Road – Layers
I’m going to try this again because as I read on, I find a very complex system unfolding and if typepad swallows this entry, I’m making a backup this time. Metafiction, a writer writing about a writer. Memoir, usually truth … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE> : On The Road – Of Poetry and Freedom
There’s something to be said about Kerouac’s prose, it’s concise and sparse but when he allows it to happen, it’s nice stuff: In the empty Huston streets of four o’clock in the morning a motorcycle kid suddenly roared through, all … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: On The Road – Reality
I’m not overwhelmed by the prose, and what Kerouac is journaling (I understand it’s based upon his own experiences) about really may have lost some of its impact through the decades of change that apparently this novel helped get started. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Road – The Times, They Ain’t Changed Much
So our narrator Sal, curious and bit jealous of the closeness between his friends Dean and Carlos, listens in on one of their special late night meetings of the minds: They started in again. ‘When you borrowed that nickel to … Continue reading Continue reading
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POETRY: A poem–
–one that I’ve tweaked a bit and that I may decide to have a go at in Flash, or at the very least, Movie Maker again just ’cause it’s fun to do: Asleep in the Streets Clouds in sheets drift … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: On The Road – Style
I keep waiting for something to grab me in my reading, but seem instead to be just bopping along the road with Kerouac’s Sal Paradise. The truck ride was fun, and I saw some depth developing to the characters: Meanwhile … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology