I really, really enjoyed Conclave, maybe because I was raised Catholic? I describe it as "Mean Girls, but in the Vatican." I also was a massive fan of The Americans. I am also a massive fan of resisting the urge to overwrite, to explain and spell out every single little detail/symbol/metaphor/meaning in my writing...especially with poems, I usually end up going back in and taking out a good chunk of expository language!
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I am a sucker for movies about clerics. Because how do you rectify a pure faith with a vocation? And I think the overwriting thing is endemic to a lot of us. Always will be, in my case.
Hi Nerissa, I've been thinking of you because my daughter is a hand surgeon in POrtland, Maine. I want to make sure you know that physical therapy/hand therapy is important after your surgery, especially for guitar players.! Should you have any questions, Anna would be glad to look at your xrays and talk with you.
This is Happiness is the best novel I have read in years. I've been recommending it to all my literary friends.
I really, really enjoyed Conclave, maybe because I was raised Catholic? I describe it as "Mean Girls, but in the Vatican." I also was a massive fan of The Americans. I am also a massive fan of resisting the urge to overwrite, to explain and spell out every single little detail/symbol/metaphor/meaning in my writing...especially with poems, I usually end up going back in and taking out a good chunk of expository language!
I wasn't raised Catholic, but I am a sucker for movies about clerics. Because how do you rectify a pure faith with a vocation? And I think the overwriting thing is endemic to a lot of us. Always will be, in my case.
Hi Nerissa, I've been thinking of you because my daughter is a hand surgeon in POrtland, Maine. I want to make sure you know that physical therapy/hand therapy is important after your surgery, especially for guitar players.! Should you have any questions, Anna would be glad to look at your xrays and talk with you.
This is Happiness is the best novel I have read in years. I've been recommending it to all my literary friends.
Love and Light, Barbara