Comments on: the forgotten waltz and voice https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/ Catching Days Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3529 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:01:51 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3529 In reply to Sigrun.

Hi Sigrun, I had fun visiting your blog again. Loved Enright’s rules, especially #4: “Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” So far I have just read The Gathering and The Forgotten Waltz, but I now have a nice stack of every book she’s written. I preferred The Gathering, but maybe start with her latest The Forgotten Waltz and work backwards? But if you only have time for one–The Gathering.

]]> By: Sigrun https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3528 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:18:41 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3528 Hi Cynthia,
just the other day I posted Anne Enright’s “Ten rules for writing fiction” on my blog. I loved her list, but must admit I don’t at all know her as a writer, then suddenly I discovered that you do! If you were new to her work, where would you start?

All the best!
Sigrun

]]> By: the forgotten waltz, unreliability, and wine lines | catching days https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3527 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:34:04 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3527 […] the forgotten waltz and voice […]

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3526 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:38:16 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3526 In reply to Darrelyn Saloom.

Wonderful point. I particularly like Enright’s brand of humor because it’s generally so dry and biting. Looking forward to more of your comments about the book!

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3525 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:34:57 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3525 In reply to Sarah Laurence.

It’s funny. I love the writing more than I love the book.

]]> By: Darrelyn Saloom https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3524 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:05:15 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3524 I am enjoying all the things you have mentioned, plus Enright’s humor.

From your last post:

“And he drove back to the hotel too fast, where I failed to seduce him on my way to the shower and he failed to seduce me on my way out of it. And on it went.” (126)

And this: “Anyway. Before out lives became a desolation of boredom, rage and betrayal, I loved Sean, I mean, Conor.” (201)

And my favorite so far, “I can’t believe I am free of all that. I just can’t believe it. That all you have to do is sleep with somebody and get caught and you never have to see your in-laws again. Ever. Pfffff! Gone. It’s the nearest thing to magic I have yet found.” (538)

Whoop! I am loving her new novel.

]]> By: Sarah Laurence https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2012/02/the-forgotten-waltz-and-voice/#comment-3523 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:37:26 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=9760#comment-3523 From this series of posts, I can see why you love this book. It’s the poetry and precision of language.

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