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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Provinces of Night – Language
Just had to share this one: He went on. When he reached the crossroads the moon was well up and the intersecting roads lay dusted with silver until they faded into the velvet trees. (p. 73) Gay gives us texture … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Provinces of Night – Pure McCarthy
Spring that year was a strange and solitary time. There were days when the only car that passed below his house was the mailman, weeks when he spoke or heard no word of human speech. Boyd did not come and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Provinces of Night – NOT Overdo
I know I’ve been slow with this novel, but reading Gay is often like reading McCarthy, or poetry: They laid aside their tools when all the sun there was was a fierce chromatic rose flaring behind the thunderhead and by … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Images/100 Poems
Went to check the Tunxis site to see what’s available for a Fall semester class and whose friendly face pops up? (I love the ‘full screen’ display version of my Mac!) But this reminded me that at Media Play Steve’s … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Provinces of Night – Overdo?
Finally got back into reading after a busy couple of weeks and while I do love Gay’s story and writing style, I’m wondering if this is just a tad overdone: He fell silent, watching her. He didn’t want to tell … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Provinces of Night by William Gay
Okay, so size and weight of the book selection had something to do with it since it’s a take-along on a brief trip, but I’ve been wanting to read a novel by William Gay since I read one of his … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Next Up?
Now is when I really think the Kindle would come in handy–heading for a short trip and airport waits. But I’m afraid the $9.95 price tag per book hits me as slightly less than frugal when I can get last … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Jamestown – Finale
Gawd, I must be the slowest reader in the literary field and close reading has only added to my time spent on a novel. Overall, I enjoyed Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown. The writing in this particular book did not strike me … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown Finished
Quite an interesting ending, but I have to think on it some more. I see apathy and I see human nature, and yet I see a spark of hope in that the name of the game is mere survival after … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown Another Metaphor!
Although I suppose the entire story is metaphor for the way society is going to hell in a handbasket, Sharpe doesn’t seem to use a lot of metaphor–or else it’s beyond the scope of my intelligence to catch. But this … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown – Some Points of Philosophy
There’s some good stuff here and I think you need to be in the frame of mind to read and catch it. Johnny Rolfe and Pocahontas are finally text-messaging and it brings in yet another form of communicating story that … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Jamestown – Language & Tone
Here I was, thinking that overall, Sharpe’s prose wasn’t anything to write home about when I came across some use of language that set imagery in mind that may emulate Cormac McCarthy’s often blunt and emotionless images when it comes … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown – Futureshock
Of course, natural resources are at a premium, but in these "after the day the earth…" novels, I’m always curious as to exactly what happened that could devastate the ground and animals yet leave people to survive. "Good. We’re running … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown – Credibility
In this multiple point of view, first person narrative, it is usually narrator reliability that may be questioned. Here, however, I find it points more directly to the creator of the many voices, that being Matthew Sharpe himself. I just … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & TECHNOLOGY: Word Count
From Lifehacker, a program that will count the frequency of a particular word within a piece. All I could think of was Calvino’s Lotaria and her own method of reading for content. Continue reading
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