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Work Report - July 2011

Quote from Fires Astonishment

July 26th 2011 22:44

I've just finished an intriguing book with the strange name: Fires Astonishment. It's written by Geraldine McCaughrean, and is a mix of legend and reality, set in the middle ages, when Christianity and paganism were never more than a breath away from each other, and superstition was rife. It took me about thirty pages before I decided I'd continue reading it, and I'm glad I did. However, it does use language verging on the poetic at times, and needs you to read between the lines - or miss something!

Here's a quote from pages 95/6:
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William Barclary on Writing

July 24th 2011 03:00

From Every Day with William Barclay (July 29). I copied these extracts out some years ago because they showed the working habits of a prolific writer, and his admiration for other prolific writers, such as Trollope, who would virtually finish the last sentence on one book and begin the first sentence on another.

The capacity of great writers to work is an extraordinary thing. It was said of Southey that 'he was never happy unless he was reading or writing a book

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The Rhetoric of Fiction

July 21st 2011 09:23

I've been flat out lately on a number of projects and things needing to be done, and the Orble blogs have been neglected. Anyway, here's another post adding to my list of quotes, this time both from a book I thought was wonderful when I first read it. I subsequently lent it to a friend, who didn't get anything much out of it - and then, when I bought a second copy and read it again, I wondered what I'd seen in it! In spite of having raved over it so much initially, these are the only two quotes I collected from it...

The Rhetoric of Fiction (revised) - Wayne C Booth, pg 73

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