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My thoughts on writing and other random things as they come up. |
| This is a blog where I keep my thoughts and daily comments about writing and WDC. |
Today I am reading a book called Small Blessings.
It feels a little bit like Olive Kitteridge, but better.
These are quirky people, but I feel almost immediately in love with them. Like within the first 5 pages. HOW did she do that? I MUST FIGURE IT OUT! I have a feeling it's something to do with how she makes the characters come to life, with their vulnerability, and something to do with tenderness. What book have you read lately that made you fall in love within the first 5 pages? Why? |
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So This keeps bugging me. NAACP Leader fakes being black  . So I'm going to ramble about it and try to sort some of it out in my head.I keep thinking to myself, why do we STILL make people identify as race A or race B? When can it just be the "human race." Americans are this huge melting pot of ethnicity and races. In many cases, it is difficult (if not impossible) to sort out lineage. Yes, we can go by records. But records are based on the idea that people always KNOW (who a parent is) and/or always TELL THE TRUTH, both of which can be questionable. In the end - why does it matter? It might matter for science. And in that case, we can go by DNA. But unless we are seeking cures or medical transplants, what difference does it make what race someone "self identifies as" or "belongs to?" This is not to say that what she did was right. People shouldn't lie, especially people in positions of influence. This whole situation, and the attention it is getting - is just sad. I wish job applications did away with checkboxes. No Male or Female. No White, Black, Hispanic, or other. "Human Race" ought to be good enough. And - why can't we all just get along. ....from deep within the Monday Trench Sil |
| It's so funny how lines can just pop out of something you are reading, and you think they are amazing, or somehow applicable to this time of your life. I love how fiction can communicate across time, and space, and give us paths or answers. How it's so neatly woven into a story line. It's also interesting to me how one line can mean so much to one person, and nothing at all to someone else. Anyway - I'm reading a novel called A Seahorse Year.
I'm reading it on Scribd (which I LOVE by the way, except it doesn't play nice with my Kindle Fire). I was touched by this line: She has always preferred a life of casual accretion. In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: What accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed. Painting should be like riding a bike with no hands, a mixture of velocity and trust. I'm also struck by how much this tells about the character, Marina. What lines have touched you today? |
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I've been listening to a book on audio, "Tell the Wolves I'm Home" by Carol Rifka Brunt. My Scribd subscription has excellent access to audio books, and it's a great way to pass the time when you spend hours in the car. I struggle with audio books most of the time, I want to eat the words with my eyes. Eating the words with my ears is not as...satisfying. It has to be a pretty good book to hold my attention on audio. There are many interesting ideas in this book, and many wonderful sentences. One of my favorite: "The portrait that held all the words we could no longer say to each other." This made me think about poetry, and how poems, like paintings, are ways of doing the same. One of the interesting ideas in the book is the often mistaken feelings young people have that they confuse with romantic love, and how many different types of love there are, and how as we grow older, we hopefully recognize that there is room for many kinds of love in life. I wish I had read it instead of listened. But a book worth giving a look. (Young Adult). |
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