“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one’s own words in print.” ~ Joan Didion
Review: Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’d Love to Meet
Though it was tough to narrow down, it was a fun list to compile. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for another great prompt.
Review: After Henry
As Didion writes, “Later it would be recalled that 3,254 other rapes were reported that year, including one the following week involving the near decapitation of a black woman . . . but the point was rhetorical, since crimes are universally understood to be news to the extent that they offer, however erroneously, a story, a lesson, a high concept.”
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Quotes
Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl, we're joining in on our first Top Ten Tuesday!
South and West
“I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not explain coherently, that for some years the South and particularly the Gulf Coast had been for America what people were still saying California was, and what California seemed to me not to be: the future, the secret source of malevolent and benevolent energy, the psychic center.”
Lit Lens 