Posted by Teddyrose@1 on October 27, 2010
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Thanks again to Anna Balasi of Hachette Books for making this giveaway possible.
Posted by Teddyrose@1 on October 26, 2010
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I read The Great Gatsby when I was in 9th grade and I remember enjoying it. It’s known as “a portrait of the Jazz Age” and it captured my young imagination and gave me a lifelong interest in historical fiction and the Jazz Age.
I have plans to read it again, as an adult. It will be interesting to see if I still feel the same way. I do know that even if I don’t, what it did for me as a teenager will stay with me. I will never loose my thirst for historical fiction!
Posted by Teddyrose@1 on October 26, 2010
Posted in Short Story Read in 2010
In continuation a reviewing short stories by authors who participated at the 23 Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival, this is a review on a story I read from Terence Young’s latest short story collection, ‘The End of the Ice Age.’
‘That Time of Year’ is about a unnamed couple who go for a swim in the lake by their cabin. It was the last day of the summer. The husband was splashing loudly, near by. The wife saw some owls and asked her husband if he saw them but he did not answer. She hated it when she saw something that no one else has, “to see something wondrous by herself was not to see it at all.”
I won’t tell anymore because I don’t want to risk spoilers. I really liked this story. It was well written and I could picture the landscape and lake the pair were in. I look forward to reading the rest of the collection.