What I'm Reading This Week- Aug. 14, 2011 - To Be Sung Underwater
If you're new here and want the 411, please scroll down to the previous post. Inspiration 101 continues with a photo quote de jour inspired by today's book, a new novel To be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal and sent by one of my favorite publicists, Serena Ainsely from Blue Dot Literary
The press release gushed the usual glowing adjectives: unforgettable, lovely, hypnotic, beautiful, delightful. I brushed aside my skepticism and began reading. It turns out the blurbs were 100 % correct. Late one evening half-way through, I kept reading into the night, feverish to know what what happened to Judith Whitman's first love, Willy Blunt, a young carpenter she left in Nebraska when she choose to attend college at Stanford and expand into a bigger life as a film editor in L.A. Fast forward twenty-seven years, I find out the surprising ending. After I shut the light, the haunting images of nostalgic love and heartbreak wrapped around me and would not let go.
To learn more about the author, visit www.mcnealbooks.com
http://www.amazon.com/Be-Sung-Underwater-Novel/dp/0316127396/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312910831&sr=1-1
In the novel, a poem by Horace Mann was stitched into a sampler and given as a Christmas gift to the main character by her father. My version of the poem has its own flavor but that's how inspiration works. Inspiration is often the first ingredient of transformation. A good book or even a few good words can jump start the process.
For me, it began like this...
Photo quote de jour
To see what else I've been reading this week, or not, visit my other blog CatWisdom101.com
The press release gushed the usual glowing adjectives: unforgettable, lovely, hypnotic, beautiful, delightful. I brushed aside my skepticism and began reading. It turns out the blurbs were 100 % correct. Late one evening half-way through, I kept reading into the night, feverish to know what what happened to Judith Whitman's first love, Willy Blunt, a young carpenter she left in Nebraska when she choose to attend college at Stanford and expand into a bigger life as a film editor in L.A. Fast forward twenty-seven years, I find out the surprising ending. After I shut the light, the haunting images of nostalgic love and heartbreak wrapped around me and would not let go.
To learn more about the author, visit www.mcnealbooks.com
http://www.amazon.com/Be-Sung-Underwater-Novel/dp/0316127396/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312910831&sr=1-1
In the novel, a poem by Horace Mann was stitched into a sampler and given as a Christmas gift to the main character by her father. My version of the poem has its own flavor but that's how inspiration works. Inspiration is often the first ingredient of transformation. A good book or even a few good words can jump start the process.
For me, it began like this...
Photo quote de jour
To see what else I've been reading this week, or not, visit my other blog CatWisdom101.com
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 8/14/2011 1:07 AM 
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Beautiful seeing the images and words connect. The novel sounds good too.
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It was a pleasure to read a love story that isn't just for women. And thanks: the images and words for this photo quote de jour came together as if by magic.
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