on blogging and writing real letters
I've been such a bad blogger lately. I have a bunch of photos to turn into a slideshow, so I'll try to get that up this week. Here's something that might be of interest that I wrote in response to "What are you reading?" on an online writer's group I'm involved in. Hey, instant blog post!
I'm currently leading a book club discussion of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It's a wonderful epistolary novel, and I'm intrigued by all the historical details and impressed by the depth of characterization that the authors were able to achieve using only a series of letters.
The letters make me regret that I have all but abandoned writing real letters in favor of emails, Facebook messages, and blogging. Not long ago my grandma gave me a stack of letters that I wrote to her while living in Australia on an exchange program for grad school. I'm so glad that I wrote such detailed letters about that time in my life--and that she saved them for me! They're as precious as the photos I took. I'm going to take the time to write some real letters this week!
I'm currently leading a book club discussion of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It's a wonderful epistolary novel, and I'm intrigued by all the historical details and impressed by the depth of characterization that the authors were able to achieve using only a series of letters.
The letters make me regret that I have all but abandoned writing real letters in favor of emails, Facebook messages, and blogging. Not long ago my grandma gave me a stack of letters that I wrote to her while living in Australia on an exchange program for grad school. I'm so glad that I wrote such detailed letters about that time in my life--and that she saved them for me! They're as precious as the photos I took. I'm going to take the time to write some real letters this week!
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