We waited for more, but Patti Lee Gauch, former editorial director of Philomel, fell silent. A nervous smile or two as the twenty-five writers around me all tried to decipher where we were going with this. The word sizzled in the conference room the way scandalous ideas do when they’re brought into the light. “Attitude!” the legendary editor overseeing our weekend writing retreat intoned. Here, to help celebrate her book birthday this week for A Blind Spot for Boys, I have Justina Chen sharing with us the two books of her heart, and how they exposed different pieces of her heart in different ways… When an author says a book she’s written is the Book of Her Heart, what does that mean? In this ongoing blog series, I’ve invited guest authors to reveal what they consider the Book of Their Heart-and share why this book holds a distinct and special place apart from all others they’ve written.
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The Fireside Poets sought to make clear the function and purpose of individuals within a society, and Saxe embraced that template. Poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) wrote about six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant (though all of them were blind). At that time, poets held a treasured and valued public role: to give the nation its conscience. Saxe published this poem during America’s Gilded Age-relentless in its pursuit of bigger and better, pushed by the can-do spirit of a nation/culture just beginning to emerge into its majority. At Twinkl, we found the perfect combination of these elements in the poetic retelling of the Indian parable by John Godfrey Saxe I, The Blind Men and the. I was at a restaurant called “They China Food!” which was owned by a couple of brothers from the Czech Republic who, as far as I could tell, didn’t know a whole lot about China or food. The place I was sitting was a small city in the Midwest which will remain undisclosed for reasons that will become obvious later. Unfortunately, this story does not take place in Los Angeles. One minute it’s small-town monochrome neighborhoods and then boom-all of a sudden you’re in a sprawling Technicolor freak show, dense with midgets. THEY SAY LOS Angeles is like The Wizard of Oz. She meets Gabriel Oak, a former shepherd who has leased and stocked a sheep farm. The story begins with Bathsheba living on a farm with her aunt, Mrs. *Sergeant Francis "Frank" Troy - a dashing Army sergeant, who turns to Bathsheba not long after his planned wedding to a local girl named Fanny Robin fails to take place. *William Boldwood - a prosperous farmer and Bathsheba's neighbor, who develops a romantic obsession toward her *Gabriel Oak - a failed sheep farmer who is hired by Bathsheba as a shepherd for her farm Possessing a vain, yet independent and naïve personality, Bathsheba finds herself torn between three men who wish to marry her: This led me to try Hardy again and so, I focused my attention on the 1998 miniseries, "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD".īased upon Hardy's 1874 novel, "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" told the story about a young woman named Bathsheba Everdene, who had recently inherited her late uncle's prosperous estate. As I grew older, I discovered a tolerance for stories with a downbeat or bittersweet ending. I found the latter rather depressing and suspected that most of his other works possessed the same downbeat tone. My attitude sprang from my reading of his 1886 novel, "The Mayor of Casterbridge", when I was in my late teens. This has nothing to do with how I felt about the quality of his work. "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" (1998) Reviewįor years, I had made an effort to avoid any novel written by Thomas Hardy and any movie or television production based upon his works. |
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