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The Mood
Blurbs
Preface
- idyll: a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
~ William Kennedy
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
Spilled Ink
Margin Notes
David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
This book - one I've been wanting to read forever and a day - is the second from my daughter's lovely Christmas gift idea. It was forwarded to me by my mother-in-law, who wrote a wonderfully charming little note to me and tucked it deep into the pages of this hefty novel for me to discover.
I'm not very far into the story yet, but already I can tell this is going to be one of those very special books that you can get lost in, completely and happily, and there is a strong sense that it will be a story I'll be sad to let go of when the time comes.
And also? The reviews and blurbs are mini-literary wonders in their own right: "This remarkable hybrid seems like an impossibility: an American 'Hamlet,' both ghost story and melodrama, a coming of age tale, a hymn to the land — and, central to it all, some of the best writing about the inner lives of dogs anywhere. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a wooly, unlikely, daring book, and wildly satisfying."
Sharing some favorite websites from my old, and soon to be new again, hometown and state: Wild, Wonderful West Virginia!
Create WV.
"Building Creative Communities for the New Economy."
East End Main Street.
Welcome to our new neighborhood!
Capitol Market.
A great place to shop and wander.
WV Living Magazine.
Food, homes, culture, heritage and more.
Volunteer WV.
Be the change.
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On the Nightstand
Illustrations
Footnotes
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Sob!! This is why I love dogs!
Posted by: Alison C | October 11, 2008 at 01:12 PM
I love my cat, but this video makes me really, really want to adopt a pup. Don't know how I've lived these past 15 years without one, actually.
Posted by: Jennifer | October 11, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Daddy's home!
Love the part where he picks the one up just like a kid. And it made me teary too.
Posted by: Phyllis | October 11, 2008 at 07:03 AM
Saw this for the first time the other day -- I've watched it half a dozen times already and still get teary.
*sniffle*
Posted by: wordnerd | October 10, 2008 at 10:01 PM