The “The Fiction Class” is a novel about a fiction writing teacher, her life, and her class. Included at the ends of each chapter about her classes are the assignments. Here’s my take on assignment 2 – to write about a person in history having a meal. ASSIGNMENT TWO by Pam Lindberg Benjamin Franklin sat at the large table in
From “The Fiction Class”, a novel about a fiction writing teacher, her life, and her class are classes exercises as well as assignments. The classes assignments are listed at the end of each chapter about the class sessions. I’ve done a couple of the assignments … want to join in? They’re fun. ASSIGNMENT 2 Think of a person from history
List five obsessions and write a paragraph about one of them. 1. Yoga 2. Words and Games … Word Games 3. Food 4. Loneliness 5. Time I am obsessed with yoga, doing yoga, teaching yoga, figuring out how many classes I can teach, how yoga fits int my life, influenced my life and how to have it nourish me rather
I’m reading “The Fiction Class”, a novel about a fiction writing teacher, her life, and her class. Included at the ends of each chapter about her classes are the assignments. I’ve done a few of the assignments along the way and they’ve been fun. Assignment One is to list five things you are obsessed with and write a paragraph about
I very much liked “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson, a book in which I found several quotes that resonated with me. The main character has his own set of rules. I have some of my own “Pam Rules”, part of my personal code, that come in really handy when I’m out of sorts or in a place where I
Here’s another line from “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson (page 167) “I wonder whether that is how we get after living alone for a long time, that in the middle of a train of thought we start talking out loud, that the difference between talking and not talking is slowly wiped out, that the unending, inner conversation we carry
Over the last many, many months I’ve been really thinking about friendships, relationships, how well I know other people and how well others know me. I thought this passage from “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson summed things up nicely. “People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they
Just finished “Work of Wolves” by Kent Meyers and I loved every word. I would highly recommend it.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was hard to get into and then, when I finally finished, I didn’t like any of the characters. It’s one of those books (and apparently series) that has caught the attention of readers … and I can’t quite understand it. My book discussion group read Dragon and, in March, will be discussing Fire. I
I loved every word of this book. Enger has a talent with words, sentences, and crafting a story. At times, I didn’t care about the plot … just loved reading his words, descriptions, and the “declarations” of the characters. I’ve also read “So Brave, Young and Handsome”. His words are, as I like to say, like chocolate for my eyes.