reading and writing a life
Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
For those of you who don’t know, I can read. Yes, I understand that is not impressive, or at least it shouldn’t be, but let’s not get into the global illiteracy debate just yet. I mention my ability to read because, as far as 2015 was concerned,…
Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
A couple of days ago, my friend posted a status on Facebook: “You can’t just go from a sad book to a happy book.” “Sure you can, you just start reading.” “No! There’s a grieving period, you don’t understand!” The exchange was between herself and her husband.…
Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
One of my favorite movie scenes is in The Day After Tomorrow: A super storm is hitting New York, temperatures are dropping, and city refugees are holed up in the Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Their best bet for survival is to set fires and…
The video below is a preview of a PBS presentation. If you’re interested in learning more about the impact of To Kill A Mockingbird, and what some writers/entertainers feel thirty years or more after reading, I highly recommend watching this documentary. American Masters: Harper Lee
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Today I read original reviews of To Kill A Mockingbird from The Telegraph and The San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, an article that quotes one of Harper Lee’s friend’s take on the book, one of Miss Lee’s profound quotes on her goals as a writer. I also viewed a video in which the novel is referred to as “social […]
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A number of years have past since I viewed the movie To Kill A Mockingbird. What memories I have of watching that story unfold in grainy black & white include a lingering sense of appreciation for the knowledge, elegantly restrained and borne with certain dignity, that Gregory Peck so aptly conveys. He was a good […]
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The recorded reading list is rather puny. I keep making the goal to read fifty books per year, and I keep failing. Oh well. Soldier on. Here’s a brief summary of what I have read, thus far: Elizabeth Gilbert can narrate the socks off a story. And that, in my opinion, is the only notable attribute […]
Read More…I won’t be rushing out for a copy of Go Set A Watchman. If Miss Lee herself held a press conference, looked the camera in the eye and stated clearly, “Yes, I changed my mind about never wanting this manuscript published,” I’d likely feel more enthusiastic about her literary ‘come back’. I’ve yet to see […]
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Wonder as Wander, Sharon Olds At dusk, on those evenings she does not go out, my mother potters around her house. Her daily helpers are gone, there is no one there, no one to tell what to do, she wanders, sometimes she talks to herself, fondly scolding, sometimes she suddenly throws out her arms and […]
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WordPress stats informs me that I have published eighty-nine posts here on generationKathy. Not surprisingly, at least sixty of those posts have been about my attempts at writing. During February I alternately chirped with delight and whined like an irritable toddler about compiling my first poetry collection intended for submission. During March I mostly bitched and whined […]
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