Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, August 25, 2011
What in biography?
The secret of chanel 5.
Coco Chanel's story is so unexpected. Starting as an orphan, watching a play about an orphan turning into a perfumer. The author presents a range of examples for smells that are used in popular brands these days. she also recreates the times of Coco by including quotes from Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia woolf.
On the TV is this news of Eau flirt Vs Classic Chanel.
Accord
Coumarin
Fougere
Chypre
Soliflore
civet
Castoreum
Coco Chanel's story is so unexpected. Starting as an orphan, watching a play about an orphan turning into a perfumer. The author presents a range of examples for smells that are used in popular brands these days. she also recreates the times of Coco by including quotes from Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia woolf.
On the TV is this news of Eau flirt Vs Classic Chanel.
Accord
Coumarin
Fougere
Chypre
Soliflore
civet
Castoreum
Monday, August 22, 2011
Unforeboded
Unlearning to fly
Halfway into the book, when I didnt find anything about flying, I thought may be here in this book, its a metaphorical act.
Lullaby for Lloyd:
This is a small chapter, but at the end of it, it seems like a book. Its about the author's adopted brother. The reader is already aware of the parents good nature. The story can be seen from a sibling's, parents of an adopted child or from the adopted child's point of view. And the innumerous people who put up with pranks of a brat.
Three Paragraphs:
Her experience as an obituary writer. How they moved from 'in your own words' of the bereaved family to the stock three paragraph format. When she writes her own grandfather's obituary, one can see how to keep it from getting overly public, all things unique about him have to be shorned off the paper.
The Metaphysics of being stuck:
From here on you enter the promised land of the book. While it is about stall in the flying process, it does not end without touching (let me trace the path) the split between moving and still - explorers fascination - student pilot - her solo flight - ambition vs societal expectation - motherhood.
Angle of attack:
The writing technique in this is worth admiring.
Analysing the cause of death of an acquaintance, she has a lot more to tell about flying, about accidents. Including some writing on 'accident reports' has added texture to this essay. There are many quotes from many authors, but one mostly used are of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Wind, Sand and Stars" who stars in the next essay 'Blue Storm'
The beginning is foreboded in the title, but it branches into many journeys.
Aug 3, 2009
Halfway into the book, when I didnt find anything about flying, I thought may be here in this book, its a metaphorical act.
Lullaby for Lloyd:
This is a small chapter, but at the end of it, it seems like a book. Its about the author's adopted brother. The reader is already aware of the parents good nature. The story can be seen from a sibling's, parents of an adopted child or from the adopted child's point of view. And the innumerous people who put up with pranks of a brat.
Three Paragraphs:
Her experience as an obituary writer. How they moved from 'in your own words' of the bereaved family to the stock three paragraph format. When she writes her own grandfather's obituary, one can see how to keep it from getting overly public, all things unique about him have to be shorned off the paper.
The Metaphysics of being stuck:
From here on you enter the promised land of the book. While it is about stall in the flying process, it does not end without touching (let me trace the path) the split between moving and still - explorers fascination - student pilot - her solo flight - ambition vs societal expectation - motherhood.
Angle of attack:
The writing technique in this is worth admiring.
Analysing the cause of death of an acquaintance, she has a lot more to tell about flying, about accidents. Including some writing on 'accident reports' has added texture to this essay. There are many quotes from many authors, but one mostly used are of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Wind, Sand and Stars" who stars in the next essay 'Blue Storm'
The beginning is foreboded in the title, but it branches into many journeys.
Aug 3, 2009
Literary Landscape
I first read this book for a non-fiction writing class. This is when I learnt about many of the plants and the animals in the desert and to know the name of everything.
"To name a thing is to give it a second creation, a creation by the viewer"
After a trip to Bisbee, I am reading this book again to savor the landscape through the author's eyes and to compare what I have seen.
It might take more courage 'to see the landscape properly (if) one must experience the temperature as well'.
June 1, 2011
Going back to Bisbee
Reading about 'alligator juniper' different from 'one-seed juniper' fills me with equal astonishment as with finding a broad-stumped eucalyptus in a park. The author's sense of history with place, things, events is persistent to the erstwhile with no traces in the present. Like when the author says that Sonoita started with a railroad but that does not exist anymore.
I have seen alternate old highways around AZ, but didnt know that one of the reasons for constructing new ones so as to overcome floodwaters.
The book is an exhaustive history of the land, people and the forts enroute Bisbee
"To name a thing is to give it a second creation, a creation by the viewer"
After a trip to Bisbee, I am reading this book again to savor the landscape through the author's eyes and to compare what I have seen.
It might take more courage 'to see the landscape properly (if) one must experience the temperature as well'.
June 1, 2011
Going back to Bisbee
Reading about 'alligator juniper' different from 'one-seed juniper' fills me with equal astonishment as with finding a broad-stumped eucalyptus in a park. The author's sense of history with place, things, events is persistent to the erstwhile with no traces in the present. Like when the author says that Sonoita started with a railroad but that does not exist anymore.
I have seen alternate old highways around AZ, but didnt know that one of the reasons for constructing new ones so as to overcome floodwaters.
The book is an exhaustive history of the land, people and the forts enroute Bisbee
Simple
To keep a Body Warm - Kelly Scott - The scene of picking sweet corn is evocative.
Rope and Wire - Patrick Robbins - What starts as a loony enterprise in the backyard about to take on a TV coverage has its little doubts in the form of a child's objections. Humor involved.
Aug 16, 2009
Rope and Wire - Patrick Robbins - What starts as a loony enterprise in the backyard about to take on a TV coverage has its little doubts in the form of a child's objections. Humor involved.
Aug 16, 2009
self study
In the minds eye
Memory's Hills - If you think you are recalling past incidents, verify with the coincident people.
Canonicity - This essay shatters Keefe's painter-of-flower image. With noticing things like missing eras in rocks, readers will make a mental note, especially those who find themselves in mountains, to read not only whats on but in rocks
mar 23,2010
Memory's Hills - If you think you are recalling past incidents, verify with the coincident people.
Canonicity - This essay shatters Keefe's painter-of-flower image. With noticing things like missing eras in rocks, readers will make a mental note, especially those who find themselves in mountains, to read not only whats on but in rocks
mar 23,2010
Remember mousaka
Days before yesterday
The essay 'Family Odyssey to Greece' is excellent with diary excerpts from the whole famly. Its rife with sense of smell.
The essay 'Family Odyssey to Greece' is excellent with diary excerpts from the whole famly. Its rife with sense of smell.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wendy McClure
The Wilder life
Can readers become such big fans that they are taken to the books they read as teens? The way, the author revisits the books she read as a child just like Courtney Sullivan indulges in her doll house compulsion.
Vanity cakes.
The little house cookbook like Andrew beahr's Twains Feast or Chris Kimball's Fannies Last supper
Can readers become such big fans that they are taken to the books they read as teens? The way, the author revisits the books she read as a child just like Courtney Sullivan indulges in her doll house compulsion.
Vanity cakes.
The little house cookbook like Andrew beahr's Twains Feast or Chris Kimball's Fannies Last supper
Elif Shafak
Black Milk
Stories had given me a sense of continuity,center and coherence - the three Cs that I sorely lacked. - Elif Shahak
continuity and center are opposite.
Adalet Agaoglu
Mathnawi
Stories had given me a sense of continuity,center and coherence - the three Cs that I sorely lacked. - Elif Shahak
continuity and center are opposite.
Adalet Agaoglu
Mathnawi
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
John Baxter
The most beautiful walk in the world
It snows in Paris?
Confiture d oignons. This reminded of an onion pickle(different from onion chutney served with dosas) that my Tamil roomate shared in undergrad.
The Hay Wain
In ovis opalis
Psychogeography
Cloche
Filofax
tisane
It snows in Paris?
Confiture d oignons. This reminded of an onion pickle(different from onion chutney served with dosas) that my Tamil roomate shared in undergrad.
The Hay Wain
In ovis opalis
Psychogeography
Cloche
Filofax
tisane
Another Paul Theroux book
The tao of Travel
Donn Fendler
Dervla Murphy
In old Patagonia express, Theroux says that there is nothing shocking about leaving home, but rather a slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window, and disappears, and becomes part of the past.
I havent felt this feeling much while doing the trips from school to home and back after each semester. But as the train approaches home, I cant contain myself.
Freya Stark
Donn Fendler
Dervla Murphy
In old Patagonia express, Theroux says that there is nothing shocking about leaving home, but rather a slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window, and disappears, and becomes part of the past.
I havent felt this feeling much while doing the trips from school to home and back after each semester. But as the train approaches home, I cant contain myself.
Freya Stark
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)