#1. Why have I not read Thomas Lynch before? I wanted to stand up in that auditorium and ask him to stop reading. I didn't think I would survive all those beautiful words coming at me. I turned to the woman beside me, I was all breathless and crying and said, "He's killing me." She smiled and nodded her head.
#2. I should have thought this out a little better. I'm falling in love everywhere I look. All these wonderful people talking about words and beauty and writing and, really, how can a girl help herself?
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some of us tried to tell you!
i'm jealous, extremely jealous.
angela, i'd like to know what you love about the writers you talk about. i just have read little of the authors you mention except coupland (whom i thought was excellent)and i admire the way you write.
i love talking about coupland with people. you remember bob from l'abri last summer? when i told him i had spent alot of time reading coupland in the fall term, he laughed and said, "yeah, i've heard he's good. but when you have people follow you around telling you accusingly you're just like someone in this book, you lose interest."
cheerio.
t.l.a
You're all talk, silly kid. You should have read him to me. You could have watched me die of happiness, right there on the couch.
Oh man, Joel. Why I love the authors I do? In my writing class this is how I commented on someone's writing. "It feels very, um, brown to me"
"Brown?" she asked.
"Yes," I said. "Brown."
This is why I love them - they make my eyes water, my heart press hard against my chest and my feet sweat. I want to find them, or failing that, any warm body and say, "See this here? This is killing me with happiness."
You know those moments you have when God is so close that you swear you couldn't hold one more tiny little piece of him, and at the same time there is this immense longing for more? THAT's what I love about those authors of mine. They do that to me.
Oh, and of course I remember ol' Bob. He was awesome. Especially because he loved India. Gotta love a guy who loves your kid.
i understand. i have that happen to. but probably corresponding to my age, is the part that says "see, see!" when i find someone who puts into words what i am wrestling to become, to throw down and rebuld as my own(occasionally core culture confrontations-as Chaim Potok called them). someone who has thought along the same vein, but rarely does that make me just purely happy.
i think i'm going to read gilead next, being that i've yet to do so.
are you continuing the journey of india sophia?
joel,
my book was just picked up by a bigger publishing co. but because it has almost sold out, they have to decide whether or not they want to print a second edition. there's also talk about a sequel, which i know i could do if i had the time/desire. the desire is beginning to grow, we'll see about the time.
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