The books which excite my attention are books which expand my sense of what is possible in living and what is possible in writing. Usually, a book does one of these things, and many of my favorite books expand the sense of possibility in writing (since writing makes up a considerable part of my living). Rarely does a book do both.
Sal, I want to read what you have to say about a turnip. I hereby invite Julie Gabrielli to start planning on that subject, as well. How beautiful is this? "how to keep turning the fabric inside out to reveal new designs, how to find the infinite rooms of the dream-house, door by door. You can feel the reader (yourself) breathing over the writer’s shoulder, saying can she do it? How can she do it? And you can feel the writer opening, and opening." Sigh.
As for the book(s), you've made it (them) sound fascinating and enticing. I see hope on many levels: success for a self-published author (no small thing!), a writer's trust in the paradox of expansiveness in a narrow constraint, the philosophical question of what happens to hope if we cannot perceive time as linear and one-directional, and maybe Tara (my namesake!)'s effort to salvage meaning in her recurring life. I'm hooked.
Thank you for this addition to the Hope Library - a true original!
If I wake at 4 a.m. with inspiration about a turnip, I will have to bring the two of you along with me. There's a subject I don't dare tackle on my own. 🥗
Sal, I want to read what you have to say about a turnip. I hereby invite Julie Gabrielli to start planning on that subject, as well. How beautiful is this? "how to keep turning the fabric inside out to reveal new designs, how to find the infinite rooms of the dream-house, door by door. You can feel the reader (yourself) breathing over the writer’s shoulder, saying can she do it? How can she do it? And you can feel the writer opening, and opening." Sigh.
As for the book(s), you've made it (them) sound fascinating and enticing. I see hope on many levels: success for a self-published author (no small thing!), a writer's trust in the paradox of expansiveness in a narrow constraint, the philosophical question of what happens to hope if we cannot perceive time as linear and one-directional, and maybe Tara (my namesake!)'s effort to salvage meaning in her recurring life. I'm hooked.
Thank you for this addition to the Hope Library - a true original!
The books really are amazing, and quite short!
You make want to take up the challenge of writing about a turnip!
& of course would love another collaboration.
If I wake at 4 a.m. with inspiration about a turnip, I will have to bring the two of you along with me. There's a subject I don't dare tackle on my own. 🥗
Contemplating the profundity of the quotidian
Thank you, Jill!
Enjoyed this very much and am tempted by the books! Thank you.
(The premise sounds identical to that of the movie "Groundhog Day." The protagonist of which, as it happens, was a meteorologist.)
I think you’ll enjoy them if you jump in.