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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Time & Place
Just about halfway through and just a quick note on voice suiting historical placement, and the underlying image we get of a space that is of a different era than where the author resides. Atwood’s narrative voice switches between that … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ploughshares
Sometimes there’s an extra special story in a literary journal and I’ve found one that excels on all counts. Drought by Miles Harvey (Ploughshares, Fall 2004) is an exquisitely written story based on the simple premise of an adulterous affair … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Theme
While I may have missed the point of Michele’s suggestion, I am finding the theme of perception that draws this novel together. It is not really a murder mystery as I had called it, for the murder is right upfront … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & REALITY: Timing
Saturday morning Slide Tile games to busy hands while the mind works hard to contemplate and come up with the thought that no, there really is no purpose to life…maybe. Just breathe just breed and if the mind develops silly … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Truth is Stranger than…
Check out the story one-liners on this list from the New York Times of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Now is it me or do the non-fiction books, in general, sound more exciting than the fiction–despite the fact … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Update
A quarter way through the book, and while I’m finding it a most enjoyable read, reminiscent of my long-time affair with murder mysteries, especially based on true crime, I do not find any deep meaning to uncover. Since the mystery … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Losing the Novel?
Very interesting post at 2 Blowhards titled "Book-length Fiction?" regarding the value of the novel, its length versus short story and the time it demands from the reader as well as what the reader demands from it. Michael makes the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Stark Simile & Metaphor
Even though the story is a murder mystery, so to speak, since we have been already made aware in the first few pages as well as it being clearly noted on the back cover, the handling of this case based … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – ALIAS and Imagery and POV
Okay, so I guess I must already retract my musings and admit to being a "poor" close reader: On page 59, the doctor Simon Jordan is looking at the same portraits I mentioned seeing on page 10, and reading underneath … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Narrative Structure
Perhaps because I just finished Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist I find this comparison with Atwood’s Alias Grace: the opening is in the present, getting us immediately involved in the characters. Both writers use as their next step a device … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Atwood
I’m pleasantly surprised by this novel, realized that I’m reading it much faster than Marquez’s Solitude which I thoroughly enjoyed plodding through even though it stopped me every other page with fascinating writing, metaphors and concepts. And faster than DeLillo’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace- The Story
Just thirty pages in and struck by Atwood’s manipulation of story, one based on a murder purportedly committed by then sixteen year-old Grace Marks of her employer Mr. Kinnear and his housekeeper/mistress Nancy Montgomery. Magic in the opening lines: Out … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace
It looks like Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace has won out; a scan of the back cover that offers murder and mystery, coupled with my own liking of Atwood’s short stories, and that it has had such rave reviews from anyone … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – The REAL Wrap-up
So I pick the book back up off the top of the "Read" pile (Read as in red, not as reed, which pile is still ten times as large) and head to the garage, first flicking the lightswitch on and … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Up for Review
I’m wandering through my lineup of books and trying my darnedest to keep my sticky fingers off McCarthy. There are four or five of them there just screaming "Read me! Read me!" I think he (and Marquez–I’m playing the field) … Continue reading Continue reading
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