When I read out-loud words tend to take on a different meaning. Have you ever noticed that characters in a book will become more enthusiastic or have more feeling? My children even like to hear a goofy accent. My point is that when you volunteer to read to a group of kids at a library or a school to make it fun. Make it enjoyable. Too many times I have heard adults read a book to children and pretty much put them to sleep. Not too many children want to hear a story that is boring. Every story (at least in theory) should be fun. It should be read with feeling. Go volunteer at a school, library or bookstore and read, read, read!
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Reading Out-loud
Posted in Reading, tagged children's books, enjoyable, reading on May 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Authors With Depth
Posted in Literary works, Reading, Writing, tagged Arts, Book, entertaining, Henry David Thoreau, Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer, literature, reading, Thoreau, Walden, writing on November 4, 2011| 3 Comments »
How have we become a society where we relish entertaining novels instead of novels with depth and character? Where have the Jack Londons, Thoreaus, and Mark Twains gone?
Cover of Walden
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”- Henry David Thoreau
I read the novel “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer and loved it. He uses Thoreau’s Walden, Or Life In The Woods quotes throughout and brings more depth and understanding to the Romantic.
I have read chapters from Thoreau’s writings of the “Pond” and “Solitude”. We have a kinship for the love of nature.
Books today do not give a voice to nature or to the wild. Authors look to entertain and to make themselves immortal on paper. But what about nourishing the mind with spellbinding writing? Am I wrong to want more than entertainment?
I have fully engrossed myself in books, these last months, that will not only feed my mind but help me understand what “good” writing is.
Someone once said, “Writing is an art. It can be interpreted in many different ways. What may seem right to the author may look like gibberish to you.” I am sure there were people who thought Picasso’s work was of a deranged man too. My writing may not make sense to some, but to others who find it acceptable, I thank you.
I thank all the authors, who are gone or are still around, that contributed to inspiring all the great authors in the world today.
How reading other sci-fi authors have helped me with my craft.
Posted in Literary works, Reading, tagged apocalyptic, author, authors, Bel Canto, Book, Brandon Mull, Jazz, One Hundred Years of Solitude, reading, science fiction, Terry Brooks, zombie on October 5, 2011| 3 Comments »
I recently finished reading “Rot and Ruin” and I have to tell everyone about it. This is my first zombie novel and now I want to read more. I can see why YA are eating these kinds of books up like their candy. Candy that might rot your teeth or brain but very entertaining. I like how the author starts of by telling a gritty apocalyptic story that evolves into how the main character becomes a real person and in the end the hero. I know a lot of books that just tell a story and the characters just help move it along.
When I started out to read this novel I was just wanting to see what all the craze was about. Well it hooked me from the beginning and then I had to finish it. This author wrote in a way I thought was easy to understand and would be easy to grasp the underlining hints of what was really going on.
I have read some other books in the past few months : “Jazz“, “White Noise”, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Bel Canto“. All of these authors have received awards for their works. I can see why they have too. Their writing is poetic and has a style all their own. They have helped me hone my own craft and how I should write a sentence in my novels. Reading “Rot and Ruin” benefitted me by seeing how the author took a character and slowly had him evolve into an end result where the reader wants to jump up from their seat and yell, “Yes!”. Some entertaining books are rewarding to new writers. I can learn why an author has so many people reading his novels. The voice an author uses sets the tone of how the rest of the book will be and sometimes like in “Jazz”, you can be surprised who the narrator is.
Terry Brooks and Brandon Mull have also been good authors to read. They know how to tell a story with humor and passion. I know there are probably many more authors out there that have been beneficial for my writing but I don’t want to make a long list of names. Reading and writing is something that goes hand in hand. I couldn’t do one without the other.
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