tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post3443122612505733109..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Pauline Fisk Asks What Makes An Author Electric?Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-76779262628349844482013-03-22T21:10:58.966+00:002013-03-22T21:10:58.966+00:00Reb, I can't help but take that as a complimen...Reb, I can't help but take that as a compliment, for which I say thank you. It's as good to know that someone 'gets' what you're saying as it is to be 'got' by what someone else is saying - and now, in the same blog post, I've experienced both. And there I was worrying that I'd nothing to write about this month. It's amazing what comes when you sit down in front of a screen. Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-36733801214324476202013-03-22T21:03:29.890+00:002013-03-22T21:03:29.890+00:00No, I haven't Lee - but I'd like to before...No, I haven't Lee - but I'd like to before the interview. Not that I have long. Glad you like the Perrie Lecture link. If that sort of thing interests you, you might also like the interview I conducted with Shrewsbury's Governor, which was before the last prisoner was moved out prior to the prison's closure:<br /><br />http://mytonightfromshrewsbury.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/we-are-shrewsbury-in-hmp-shrewsbury.html<br /><br />Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-3860648280744131172013-03-22T07:47:42.545+00:002013-03-22T07:47:42.545+00:00Hi Pauline, thanks for the Perrie Lectures link, w...Hi Pauline, thanks for the Perrie Lectures link, which is definitely worth knowing about.<br /><br />Have you read Murphy's first novel? I've decided to begin there, since it's much cheaper secondhand!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54073041414213455852013-03-22T00:18:36.879+00:002013-03-22T00:18:36.879+00:00Pauline, this is the loveliest piece I've ever...Pauline, this is the loveliest piece I've ever read about the reading experience--and what we feel when we know that a good new writer 'has' us. Sometimes, as they say, at Hello. Thanks so much.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-8584916759768300842013-03-21T22:42:57.195+00:002013-03-21T22:42:57.195+00:00Yes indeed, a bit of a love letter to books. And ...Yes indeed, a bit of a love letter to books. And Lee, as well as thank you for your kind words and hoping you'll enjoy the book if you ever get to read it, just to let you kow I've left a comment on Julia's last post about the Perrie Lecture website, which may or may not help your enquiry over books about the effects of prison on inmates. If there's nothing on the site that's helpful, it's an interesting one to know about anyway if you're interested in prison life etc.Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-33016973713145039352013-03-21T22:40:11.426+00:002013-03-21T22:40:11.426+00:00You convinced me! Just downloaded a sample.You convinced me! Just downloaded a sample.Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-69550446288630488682013-03-21T14:57:37.205+00:002013-03-21T14:57:37.205+00:00Lovely post, a love letter to books and what they,...Lovely post, a love letter to books and what they, and their authors, do for us. I love to be right into a book, now I get the same from my kindle! While obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels and reading them repeatedly, I became so much a part of their world (Napoleonic War English navy at sea) that I found myself saying at a party, to someone with an affliction of the hand, 'oh, Stephen has a specimen with that, he got it from a hanged man on the gallows' and then realising I was talking about someone fictional... I've been re-reading all Ngaio Marsh's crime novels, and apart from some rather cringe-making attitudes due to the time they were written, am blown away by her writing and often find myself saying out loud some particularly astonishingly beautiful phrase.Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-66996342905354367672013-03-21T12:47:26.534+00:002013-03-21T12:47:26.534+00:00Wonderful - a tingle on the pulses. What a great m...Wonderful - a tingle on the pulses. What a great moment, thanks for sharing this<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-36861902085441438742013-03-21T07:24:20.462+00:002013-03-21T07:24:20.462+00:00What a lovely post! And one for my to-be-ordered l...What a lovely post! And one for my to-be-ordered list. Thanks. <br /><br />(Though I'm not entirely convinced that 'everyone's experience of what makes a good book is so different.' We are not as individual - or unique - as is currently customary to believe.)Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com