The enchanted hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon. Starting into some teacher reading and reasearch. This is grounded in neuroscience and behavioural research. Very excited to read this. enchantedhour meghancoxgurdon readalouds rozzie pedagogyofreading
The enchanted hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon. Starting into some
The enchanted hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon.
Starting into some teacher reading and reasearch. This is grounded in neuroscience and behavioural research. Very excited to read this.
#enchantedhour #meghancoxgurdon #readalouds #rozzie #pedagogyofreading
When all is said by Anne Griffin. Just finished this
When all is said by Anne Griffin.
Just finished this and it was the perfect read for holidays. I read it on the tran, train, bus, plane, cafe, bar and playground!
The main character, Maurice really affected me. His voice made me tear up many times.
This is a story of what happens when you regret much of your life. We are being asked to love Maurice despite his failings and asked to forgive him for the last chapter.
I’m really impressed with this novel, the writing is easy to read yet poetic in places. It’s a beautiful idea for a tale and the author’s command of the plot is to be commended. Well done. Well done.
#reading #novel #irishwriting #WhenallIsSaid #bookclub #AnneGriffin #whatiamreading #whatYouReading #rozzie
That glimpse of truth, 100 of the finest short stories
That glimpse of truth, 100 of the finest short stories ever written.
I’ve let this beautiful book rest for a while while I read some novels but I’m back to it again.
#shortstory
#reading
#whatYouReading
#whatiamreading
#bookCoversAreMyThingBaby
#rozzie
When all is said, current bookclub read by Anne Griffin.
When all is said, current bookclub read by Anne Griffin.
#bookclub
#whatiamreading
#whatYouReading
#rozzie
Current short story read is Nicole Flattery’s debut collection, Show
Current short story read is Nicole Flattery’s debut collection, Show them a good time.
Loving the title, cover, artwork and the general feel and pacing of her writing.
Nicole has so much to say, she observes meticulously. This is not a collection to be devoured.
I’m taking my time to read, every sentence is a story and those sentences have to get time.
I’ve read the first 3 stories, really enjoyed the opening story of the collection, Show them a good time but am noticing her protagonists, so far, are of one and the same type.
This might be a strength or other!
Either way, her writing, her thoughts, her style, her everything are genuinely fresh and genuinely dark and genuinely quirky. It can be easy to dub a book “dark” but I think that term needs to be carefully weighted and selfishly given.
#rozzie
Dark lies the island, the film, premiering now at the
Dark lies the island, the film, premiering now at the Dublin International Film Festival 2018.
So excited.
#Kevinbarryauthor #litcrush #darkLiesTheIsland #film #shortstory #rozzIe
Dark lies the island, the film. How excited am I?
Dark lies the island, the film. How excited am I? This will screen at the Dublin Film Festival 2019 with a Q and A. Tickets are selling fast. I’m in!
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#itsKevinBarry
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#Kevinbarryauthor
#darkLiesTheIsland
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#dublinfilmfestival2019
#reading
#soExcited
#betterThanChristmas
#whoop
#bringIt
#cannotCope
#expensiveTicketsThough
#irishFilm
#rozzie
Can we trust new writing? Is it any good? Reading
Can we trust new writing? Is it any good?
Reading an old collection of short stories from Alice Munro. I’ve finished and loved the first two. They are both masterpieces and not a stroke is out.
I’ve discussed modern writers and established writers at length with a friend of mine. He reckons that we can trust writing by dead or established writers. Writers like Raymond Carver and Alice Munro or Joy Williams. I agree to a point. I read contemporary and established writing but I find it’s usually the established writers that I am most moved by. I am less moved by contemporary writing though that’s not to say it doesn’t happen. Kevin Barry, Danielle Mc Laughlin and upcoming Nicole Flaherty’s collection intrigue and fascinate me.
Clare Keegan told me once she only reads dead writers. #unsure
What do we think?
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#shortstory #alicemunro #raymondCarver #writing #reading #rozzie
Stone mattress, 9 wicked tales by Margaret Atwood. Am making
Stone mattress, 9 wicked tales by Margaret Atwood. Am making my way through this nightly. I think some writers are just suited/more brilliant or natural to the longer form of the novel and Atwood is one of them.
Short stories are hard.
The best story of this collection is the title of the collection, Stone mattress. .
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#shortstory
#margaretAtwood
#novel
#whatiamreading
#whatYouReading
#fiction
#writing
#creativeWriting
#rozzie
#reading
#readinglist
#atwood
#stoneMattress
#getReading
#loveTheCover
#booknerd
#bookclub