The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Best things: The narrative style, the alternative endings, the narrator as a mustachioed renegade character Worst things: 100 pages too long, and Sarah. She should’ve turfed herself off the Cobb Continue Reading →
Month: January 2009
I think I’m in love
With this man: Dashing, isn’t he? That aristocratic nose, that intense gaze. But seriously. Lord Alfred Tennyson has stolen my heart completely. Specifically, it’s his thirteen hundred line poem, Maud, Continue Reading →
Creativity and the unconscious mind
John Cleese recently spoke at the World Creativity Summit about how he creates opportunities for his creativity to run amuck, and how much the unconscious mind is to thank for Continue Reading →
Miss Misery
I’m not sure what drew me to Miss Misery. I’d be wandering the aisles at Central for a bit too long as was starting to get frustrated, and a little Continue Reading →
My grandmother was a writer
It sounds like a good title for a book. My Grandmother was a Writer. But it’s also true. She was prolific, until her fingers got so twisted with arthitis she Continue Reading →