What I'm Reading This Week -- November 22, 2009 & A Room With A View
Quote de jour
"He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm--charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It's not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It's a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes."
- Raymond Chandler on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Can a great writer's style be absorbed by reading? That's on my mind but not as much as these @#*&* sticking keys preventing me from writing. Maybe it's the cosmic trickster telling me to let the image speak and go outside and play.
http://www.joycemaynard.com/
Bon Appetit has fab recipes for Thanksgiving. Makes me almost wish I were cooking but I will bake one of the desserts.
"He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm--charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It's not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It's a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes."
- Raymond Chandler on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Can a great writer's style be absorbed by reading? That's on my mind but not as much as these @#*&* sticking keys preventing me from writing. Maybe it's the cosmic trickster telling me to let the image speak and go outside and play.
http://www.joycemaynard.com/
Bon Appetit has fab recipes for Thanksgiving. Makes me almost wish I were cooking but I will bake one of the desserts.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 11/22/2009 11:06 AM 
Categories: A Room With A View, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: Best turkey day recipes Joyce Maynard
Categories: A Room With A View, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: Best turkey day recipes Joyce Maynard
What a gorgeous photo, Layla. Taken on one of the sunny days.
Can a great writer's style be absorbed via reading?
Depends on the sponge, me thinks. But great quote. Love Keats, Chandler and F Scott.
Now for me, back to writing. Most of the week will be cleaning, and some cooking.
Nearly everybody home. In two more days, everybody.
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I enjoy seeing the color montage of magazines. So, the red, white and blue themes continue.
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