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Archive for October, 2010
Big American Books
Posted in Books, Reading, Reviews, tagged books, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, reading, reviews, Stephen King, Under the Dome on October 18, 2010 | 19 Comments »
I’ve just read two chunksters by two American master storytellers. In the one corner, weighing in 562 pages is Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, and lolling in the other is Stephen King’s Under the Dome, which comes in at a massive 880 pages. Freedom is a literary darling, feted by The Guardian as ‘the novel of the [...]
Season Your Reading
Posted in Books, Flavours, Food, France, Recipes, tagged Rosy Thornton, Tapestry of Love on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
There are two things I love: books and food. I’m never happier than when I can combine the two. In August I reviewed Rosy Thornton’s evocative and moving Tapestry of Love. It is set in the Cevennes valley in France and while it is a love story, it is deeply redolent of the landscape, weather, [...]
Hot Music
Posted in fiction, Music, The Novel, Writing, tagged Push Me to the Floor, The Parlotones, Writing on October 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In two weeks I’ll be swinging down to Stuttgart with Germany’s Top Husband and our very good friends M and P to see South Africa’s hottest band, The Parlotones, in concert. Here’s their very sexy song, Push Me to the Floor, courtesy of YouTube: Now that I feel inspired, I’m off to chisel a sex scene.
Carving and Chiselling
Posted in fiction, The Novel, Words, Writing, tagged first novel, Frankfurt Book Fair, Writing on October 7, 2010 | 8 Comments »
You’d think by draft seven, my novel would have reached a place of repose. You’d think after two and a half years of writing, I could wipe my hands and say, ‘This is finished.’ You’d think that by now, every plot connection would be in place, every character would justify her presence in the narrative [...]
Writing the Details
Posted in The Novel, Writing on October 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve just attached five Post-its to the top of my computer screen. This is what they say: Smell Taste Feel Sound Look like It sounds banal, but when I’m writing, I get so caught up in the plot and the characters, I forget the sensory detail. As a reader, I know it’s those details that [...]
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