Fun With Glue

[traceroo]

Today... now this is very exciting, so brace yourselves... today, I made something prettier by gluing pretty paper to it! Exciting, I know. Ian gave me a paperback notebook a month or so ago, random swag from some corporation, I think. I like notebooks -- I have far more than I'll ever use, but still, they make me happy. Today I finally got around

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Dead Writers

[traceroo]

It's funny you should mention Joel Chandler Harris -- he was mentioned in one of the questions on my History exam yesterday. I had to laugh, really. One of the questions on the study guide was to characterize the change in American Literature round the end of the 1800s. Okay. Got that. Got to the test, and the multiple choice answers really, really dug into the minutia of several authors of the time - including Harris - and I really had no idea what the answer was. I had to laugh. Here I am an English major, and I've already taken the American Literature class which corresponds to this time period, and the question on the History exam dug in deeper than I any idea how to answer! Guess that's one of the subjects I should re-examine when I go to retake the test!

Glad you're enjoying Harris -- in the same spirit, you might enjoy Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns which I just read recently. It's a nostalgic look into turn-of-the-century country life around Commerce, GA. Skip the sequel, though, it was a stinker.

I'll add Nancy Hart to the list, thanks for the recommendation!

Trace

Re: Dead Writers

[khudgins]

I've read Cold Sassy Tree, it's not bad, although tedious. If you consider it more a collection of short stories than a novel, it's closer to the mark, I think.

I haven't read the sequel, although I've heard the same review from several others.

Two years ago, I had the privilege of attending the Atlanta Opera's debut of the operatic production of Cold Sassy Tree. Did my heart proud to hear opera performed in my native language (Southern!).

Re: Dead Writers

[traceroo]

Tedious? Interesting. To each his own, indeed! I like strong characterization best in my reading, and CST has that in spades. That probably helped me deny the tedium of what is a slow-moving story in that there is much "story" to it at all, I must admit!

The sequel is more (or rather, less) of the same, only even less (or more?) of it. If you found the first book tedious, then I double my recommendation to avoid the sequel!

The stage show must've been something pretty cool, though. I hope sometime I get a chance to see that.

Trace