by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 8, 2008 | reviews, shapes, truth |
Rachel Cusk’s fourth book is a memoir, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother. My favorite line, because of the unwritten premise, comes in the Introduction, where she writes, “…so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 30, 2008 | shapes |
The Oxford American Dictionary defines this beautiful sounding word as like prose; lacking poetic beauty. unromantic; dull; comonplace. The top three definitions of prose are the ordinary form of the written or spoken language a passage of prose a tedious speech or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 25, 2008 | reviews, shapes |
With her first novel, Saving Agnes, Rachel Cusk laid the foundation for her writing life. The Temporary is her second novel. It was published in 1995, two years after her first. And I see improvement. The author is using fewer words, and in places, she goes...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 8, 2008 | novels, shapes |
On Monday, February 26, 1951, John Steinbeck wrote, “I don’t understand why some days are wide open and others are closed off, some days smile and others have thin slitted eyes and others still are days which worry. And it does not seem to be me but the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 5, 2008 | shapes |
This morning I’m searching for shapes, instead of schedules. What shape will today take–will these writings take? In Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote, “The pattern of our lives is essentially circular.” ...
