There’s a story. About a, well was it a writer? a painter?
God will wait. Get your idea written down so you won’t forget. God will wait.
I’m not saying I had a fantastic idea. But I did have ideas. Hopefully I’ll have them again.
I was wondering and wrote about it
There’s a story. About a, well was it a writer? a painter?
God will wait. Get your idea written down so you won’t forget. God will wait.
I’m not saying I had a fantastic idea. But I did have ideas. Hopefully I’ll have them again.
One day reading through Facebook I found an intriguing link from Grace Emmual. It was of a Latin American canon of literature. It was organized with “if you like _____ try _____” As in,
If you have to read: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Remezla’s Website
Try: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Or
If you have to read: Beowulf
Remezla’s Website
Try: Popol Vuh
Or, the one that got me,
If you have to read: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Remezla’s Website
Try: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
There are more, many more, check them out at Remezla’s Website. I will certainly be back for more to read.
Their book Signs Preceding the End of the World begins with a woman
I’m dead, Makina said to herself when everything lurched: a man with a cane was crossing the street, a dull groan suddenly surged through the asphalt, the man stood still as if waiting for someone to repeat the question and then the earth opened up beneath his feet: it swallowed the
Opening sentence of Signs Preceding the End of the Worldman, and with him a car and a dog, all the oxygen around and even the screams of passers-by.
Could you stop reading there? I couldn’t. So I continued.
Three cheers for Lisa Dillman! She is the translator of the work and several others. Translators have a difficult craft to practice. Ms. Dillman does so well.
It seems Patti Smith is also a fan of this book and
I’m off to finish this book and hope the hold list for Kingdom Cons is not too long a wait.
If you read, then you must read this article. If you don’t read, or read much, you should skim this article to catch a nugget or two about why reading is great to do.
Feel free to skip the What books are on your nightstand? and What’s the last great book you read? Both questions are fluff. Go on to What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of?, What book should everybody read before the age of 21?, or Has a book ever brought you closer to another
Language is wine upon the lips.
~ Virgina Woolf
I looked back at the day and asked, where did I go?
And I remembered, the YouTube videos when one lead to another and another and there were hours.
And I remembered. the mention of a presidential candidate from two people from very different parts of my life. And I started to really look at his policies.
There was a day, watching and reading and not taking notes but I do learn a bit. A bit.
I tend to get interested in something and stay there until I kinda sorta understand it. That’s where I went. But it’s not someplace where I go on a plan. Something grabs my attention and until that curiosity itch is scratched I’m there, looking, reading, lost in the “what about …” questions and answers.
That’s where I go.