Activity timeline
November 17, 2008
Lorinimus added Tom Stoppard to their library.
Lorinimus added The God of Small Things to their library.
Lorinimus added The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay to their library.
The title story of this collection is worth it alone. A Manette Ansay spoke at a creative writing course I did in Boston once. She was inspiring and hilarious and in a wheelchair. And funny as hell. I haven't liked anything she's done since to the same extent that I enjoyed this one.
Lorinimus added Read This and Tell Me What It Says to their library.
I know people think this is un-literary. It's so readable, though, and so obviously a story that I was able to enjoy it for what it was. Love the cadences. Love the voice. Love that kids read it in school.
How can I enjoy these stories so much and "The Gathering" so little? Perhaps because I saw her reading from this collection during the Sydney Writers' Festival. Perhaps because she's better at the short story, although the Booker Prize judges would disagree.
Lorinimus added Taking Pictures. Anne Enright to their library.
Lorinimus added The Brush Off to their library.
Lorinimus added Blue Water to their library.
Lorinimus added Vinegar Hill to their library.
Lorinimus added How the Light Gets In to their library.
Lorinimus added Vernon God Little to their library.
Lorinimus says...
I read lots of young adult fiction, because I'm writing some. I also read funny books, books with movement in the plot or colour in the dialogue, and books that know what they're about. I read plays a lot. I hated the Bridget Jones films but loved the books. Similar response to the Princess Diaries and, yes, I know this is hard for some people to take, Fight Club. I'll read anything. Especially in the mornings.