April 2012 – Glenn Mori, crafting with words, notes and thoughts

Review and thoughts: The Surrendered

Posted on April 22, 2012February 23, 2013 by Glenn

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately and not much writing. One of the recent reads is “The Surrendered” by Chang-rae Lee. As is always the case, I’m writing about it not for a scholarly review but to note “writerly” aspects that I’ve thought about.

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Reading, rather than writing

Posted on April 9, 2012April 9, 2012 by Intermittent Rain

I’ve been a little annoyed / concerned about my lack of writing over the past few months, but then I realized that I’ve been doing a lot of reading.

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Writing review: The Hunger Games

Posted on April 3, 2012June 24, 2015 by Intermittent Rain

My writing reviews have been focused on fiction, but in this case I want to look at “The Hunger Games (Book 1)“, not so much the novel as the movie version. I read the book recently and then saw the movie this past weekend. As always there are the issues of discomfort over what is left out of the novel when it is turned into a movie, but for me in this case I wasn’t too concerned; the novel was borrowed so I speed-read the novel in 36 hours total time, less actual reading time when you deduct 8 hours for sleeping and 9 hours for work and so on, so my memory for the details was not precise to begin with.

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