{"id":3738,"date":"2012-05-29T04:16:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2012-05-29T04:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:16:56","slug":"digesting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3738","title":{"rendered":"Digesting Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Art in America<\/em> magazine (Jan 2012) sitting in my bathroom, I read “Being a writer is like being a piece of photographic paper. Everything makes an impression upon you, and you have to stop and take stock of what had the most impact. I almost can’t read anything without a pencil in my hand.” – Maggie Nelson<\/p>\n

I almost can’t live<\/em> without a pencil (and post-its) in my hand.<\/p>\n

But writing is always competing with reading. Right now reading is winning. After a few days of my eyes wandering aimlessly and restlessly, I’ve picked up The Ten Thousand Things<\/em> by Maria Dermout. Very excited. Not only is it described as a “novel of shimmering strangeness” (yes! yes!) but the translator, Hans Konig recounts reading the galleys of this Dutch novel for the first time like this<\/p>\n

“It was long ago, but I remember it like yesterday: the ship, a high wind as always blowing over the North Sea, and tears running down my face. That was one of the most beautiful, and saddest, stories I had ever read.”<\/p>\n

I am also reading the gift of an ordinary day<\/em> by Katrina Kenison, which was given to me for my birthday a year ago. I like it also.<\/p>\n

I LOVE a good book recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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