Well, every few months, I return to this blog, though I vow that it's going to happen more often from here on out.
We've been snowed in for days now, and I've been quilting and writing up a storm (ha.). A friend is helping me to take some images so that I can finally post more quilts -- oh la la! -- so the next time I'm here, I'll do that. For now, here is the campus in the snow, with a dog in the foreground:
Alternating between delighting in the snow, making things, and feeling some cabin-fever, I've also been reading a lot. I finished The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey, which was an appropriate read. I was grateful that I wasn't living in snowbound Alaska pre-internet-and-telephone. Now that's some cabin fever. But the landscape sounds so beautiful, I'd love to visit someday. This was a first novel, which makes me happy. A great start out of the gate -- lyrical language, a little magic. Cozy winter snowy read.
This is what NPR had to say about it (a good review):
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/26/167557065/revisiting-a-sad-yet-hopeful-winters-tale-in-the-snow-child
I'm also now reading The Chronology of Water, and have recently finished Autobiography of a Face. That last one knocked me out, the story was so powerful (why hadn't I read it sooner??). AND, Dawn Raffel came to visit this week, so we read and discussed her work in a class I'm taking. I love, love, The Secret Life of Objects and her gorgeous story collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe.
http://www.thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2012/06/06/nothing-in-my-interior-life-is-linear-dawn-raffel/
That's an interesting interview, above.
Now I must move on to her novel and first collection. It was fantastic to have her here at URI, talking about how her work moves and becomes.
We've been snowed in for days now, and I've been quilting and writing up a storm (ha.). A friend is helping me to take some images so that I can finally post more quilts -- oh la la! -- so the next time I'm here, I'll do that. For now, here is the campus in the snow, with a dog in the foreground:
Alternating between delighting in the snow, making things, and feeling some cabin-fever, I've also been reading a lot. I finished The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey, which was an appropriate read. I was grateful that I wasn't living in snowbound Alaska pre-internet-and-telephone. Now that's some cabin fever. But the landscape sounds so beautiful, I'd love to visit someday. This was a first novel, which makes me happy. A great start out of the gate -- lyrical language, a little magic. Cozy winter snowy read.
This is what NPR had to say about it (a good review):
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/26/167557065/revisiting-a-sad-yet-hopeful-winters-tale-in-the-snow-child
I'm also now reading The Chronology of Water, and have recently finished Autobiography of a Face. That last one knocked me out, the story was so powerful (why hadn't I read it sooner??). AND, Dawn Raffel came to visit this week, so we read and discussed her work in a class I'm taking. I love, love, The Secret Life of Objects and her gorgeous story collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe.
http://www.thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2012/06/06/nothing-in-my-interior-life-is-linear-dawn-raffel/
That's an interesting interview, above.
Now I must move on to her novel and first collection. It was fantastic to have her here at URI, talking about how her work moves and becomes.
