Category: Schreiben & Lesen | Reading & Writing
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Questionnaire for a Worried Reader (i.e. Myself)
All questions from Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home. The Reading Brain in a Digital World. (New York: Harper, 2019), p. 96. Answers are mine. Do you read with less attention and perhaps even less memory for what you have read? Yes. But I find that there is a always a way back to full attention…
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Akademische Prosa (ohne Lektorat)
Immer mal wieder lese ich Bücher, die mich brennend interessieren und dann wahnsinnig enttäuschen. Kürzlich ist mir das Buch Handbuch Kreatives Schreiben. Literarische Techniken verstehen und anwenden von Julia Genz aufgefallen, und da ich mich aus meiner eigenen Studienzeit noch erinnern konnte, dass es unter dem Label “utb” durchaus hilfreiche Bücher gab, habe ich es…
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Something to Do
The Bee Sting, for me, is another insta-buy from the 2023 Booker longlist. Here’s four notes on its first three paragraphs, which hooked me with their exposition of a world I’d be equally thrilled and anxious to enter.
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Certain Things Beginning to Arise
How cool is a first paragraph if almost every sentence in it could be used as a first sentence?
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The Night Has Come, With the Morning Come
This opening promises either a pretentious or a poetic book, but either way it’s not for those who like regular sentences.
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Only Then Does
Three thoughts on three words and what difference they make in the opening of All the Little Bird-Hearts, and a gratuitous thought about eggs.
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Four Notes on Sixteen Varietes of Apples
A few thoughts about two or three lists, featuring a short and nonspecific appreciation of Mr Harding’s writing.
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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Maybe
So much speculation. Couldn’t the author decide what is what?
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Putative Relatives
Granny flats, brown darknesses, invisible gardens.