Recording a book review for book tube was a great excuse to brush my hair and put on a little make-up, so I did just that for my latest read, This Has Nothing To Do With You by Lauren Carter. I still wore stretchy pants though, there’s no way I’m needlessly wearing jeans while this…
Short stories aren’t for everyone, I realize that. In my personal experience, only the dedicated book lovers can really grow attached to short stories. They’re rarely on the best-seller list, and Indigo doesn’t really push them, so many publishers are reluctant to publish them for fear that they won’t sell well. Which, quite honestly, they…
I’m going to make an effort to do more video book reviews as people seem to like them, plus, they’re fun to do! My apologies there are no kitties in this video, and as always, please send any feedback my way re: lighting, backgrounds, etc. I need all the help I can get!
I’m getting into the festive Halloween spirit here by reviewing a ‘spooky’ book by Craig Davidson: The Saturday Night Ghost Club. Notice the extra effort I’ve put into this video-I included Halloween decorations on my bookshelf! That’s about as crafty as I get unfortunately, but nonetheless here it is. I should have mentioned that this…
So onto my next video review. The book I review below is called Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, and I picked it up because of the premise-it’s timely and unique. It’s also a translation, which prompted me to read it because I love exploring books from cultures and languages other than my own, it’s like…
I find short story collections extremely hard to review, but this is the case even more so when the collection of stories is an anthology made up of various authors because there is such a huge span of talent and writing throughout. Sex and Death, edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs is an incredibly…
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Bet you’re slurring your words even more now! *runs off, giggling*
you know it!
The technique you describe is metafiction. Anything that is aware of what it is is “meta.” Ferris Bueller knows he’s in a movie; he talks to the camera. That’s metafilm. “You’re so vain” may be considered a metasong.
I giggled when you said it was so late and then revealed it’s 10:00 :)
haha it’s true, 10 is so late for me! You can probably tell how tired I felt in the video.
yes-meta! I always forget that term, but really it shouldn’t be that hard to remember (sigh)
I think I may have mentioned I’m a huge movie fan, so this one was right up my alley. I’ve actually seen all of the movies he talked about in his story (not when they came out, as the character did), but it sure brought me into the character’s moment. Also, my father was in the Air Force, and, while I was pretty young, we were living on a radar base and I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. Movies were an escape for me when I was growing up, as they seemed to be for this character, and I really loved his imagery throughout the story as a way of dealing with what he was going through and his observations of what was going on around him. Another wonderful translation.
P.S. Really enjoyed your CBC segment, which I tracked down online.
P.P.S. Hope the dental surgery went well.
Thank you Cathy! yes the surgery went well, and thank you for tracking down that segment, many people are having troubles playing it (weird)
I know this last story would have wide appeal, lots of people are book/movie buffs!
You are a trooper! 🙂
thanks :)