by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 31, 2009 | craft of writing, details, novels, reading |
Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a character-rich, character-driven novel, with lots of plot and an equally strong sense of place. What a read! It’s written in short little unmarked sections–little moments that patch together the characters of Georgie Jutland...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 20, 2009 | essays, reading, the day |
Sunrise Miami Beach. The dawning of a new day. On the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was the headline, “From Books, New President Found Voice.” In case you missed it, here are some of the highlights. Michiko Kakutani wrote that Mr....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 18, 2009 | reading |
Well, you can only read one book at a time, right? Maybe not. There’s the book I’m reading. That for me is the one I take to bed at night. The one I read after dinner. It’s the book I want to read just because I do–for fun. Right now that...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 27, 2008 | reading |
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind…” Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 15, 2008 | craft of writing, details, novels, reading |
Just as Home, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award in Fiction, has been called a companion to Gilead, this post is a companion to yesterday’s. Prompted by comments, I wanted to add that if you enjoyed Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson’s first novel,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 7, 2008 | catching moments, reading |
“Island living has been a lens through which to examine my own life…I must keep my lens when I go back… I must remember to see with island eyes. The shells will remind me; they must be my island eyes.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea...
