Author: Kim Edwards
Author details: She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. In an interview about writing The Memory Keeper's Daughter she references a Paris Review interview, in which Katherine Anne Porter "talks about the event of a story being like a stone thrown in water—she says it’s not the event itself that’s interesting, but rather the ripples the event creates in the lives of characters." Kim adds, "I found this to be true. Once I’d written the first chapter, I wanted to find out more about who these people were and what happened to them as a consequence of David’s decision; I couldn’t stop until I knew. "
Book details: Krystle gave me this book for Christmas. Reading it made me want to write fiction--just to be able to get in the heads of so many different characters and show all the sides of a given situation. It was beautiful.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
Author details: I went to college with Ish. His dorm room was just a couple doors down from mine. I didn't know his story then. I just knew what you know of most people that you interact with daily but never deeply: walk, smile, habits, mutual friends. I'm glad that he could write this book and that I could read it and add some depth and understanding to what I already knew.
Book details: I think it's pretty much summed up in the title.
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subject: Overcoming
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Author details: I went to college with Ish. His dorm room was just a couple doors down from mine. I didn't know his story then. I just knew what you know of most people that you interact with daily but never deeply: walk, smile, habits, mutual friends. I'm glad that he could write this book and that I could read it and add some depth and understanding to what I already knew.
Book details: I think it's pretty much summed up in the title.
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subject: Overcoming
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
Author: Louise W. Knight
Author details: Lucy was my professor this quarter. When she was in her thirties she asked her herself what was the thing she most wanted to do with her life. If she figured out what it was, she would do it. She realized it was to write a biography of Jane Addams, so she did. She believes the best advice she can give someone is that regardless of how unqualified you feel you are to do what you dream of doing, you should just do it. She started writing on her own, and eventually received an NEH Fellowship (after applying for one numerous times) that allowed her to just write for one whole year. The publication of this biography has opened many doors for Knight that she never imagined when she started writing it.
Book details: I'm kind of in love with Jane, in the same way I'm kind of in love with myself. Err... I think she is a great, and I hope I am and can be great too. I like her religion. I like her politics. I like how her friends remember her:
"She was so utterly real and first-hand, full of compassion without weakness or sentimentality...loving merriment while carrying the world's woes in her heart. A great statesman, a great writer, one of the world's rarest spirits."
--Emily Green Balch
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography
Subject: Great Women
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Author details: Lucy was my professor this quarter. When she was in her thirties she asked her herself what was the thing she most wanted to do with her life. If she figured out what it was, she would do it. She realized it was to write a biography of Jane Addams, so she did. She believes the best advice she can give someone is that regardless of how unqualified you feel you are to do what you dream of doing, you should just do it. She started writing on her own, and eventually received an NEH Fellowship (after applying for one numerous times) that allowed her to just write for one whole year. The publication of this biography has opened many doors for Knight that she never imagined when she started writing it.
Book details: I'm kind of in love with Jane, in the same way I'm kind of in love with myself. Err... I think she is a great, and I hope I am and can be great too. I like her religion. I like her politics. I like how her friends remember her:
"She was so utterly real and first-hand, full of compassion without weakness or sentimentality...loving merriment while carrying the world's woes in her heart. A great statesman, a great writer, one of the world's rarest spirits."
--Emily Green Balch
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography
Subject: Great Women
Purchase from W&CF
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