Literature entry week 9

[geebusd]

These last couple of days have been pretty tumultuous. So many things have been happening, and I keep forgetting what day it is because I skipped uni on Monday (ooah, naughty me). One good thing is that I've discovered Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. It is exactly what I want to read right now in my life, being very excited about my trip next year

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[elisriture]

Oh my god Georgina, I LOVE your train trip narrative! It is just delightful in every way! I especially love how you met the challenge of trying to write about the changing light, it's always such a race to get something good on the page before it's changed, while your head was down, scribbling in your commonplace book. When I do it, I feel as if, while I'm recording the colours and mood that I've just seen, I'm missing other stuff that might have been better to record.

I had a similar experience on a flight back to Sydney from Hong Kong, the sun was setting and I was up in the sky, trying to record the perfect view of a beautiful, but quickly changing and disappearing phenomenon. We are lucky that it happens every 24hrs, so you always get another chance!

I love reading books which are set in real places which include a lot of details about the place. I've read Chinese Cinderella and Falling Leaves so many times and gone to the streets and places in Hong Kong that she speaks about. Your trip to Paris will probably make you love Hemmingway EVEN MORE, and you'll probably come up with your own creative works to rival his!

Well played.