Hooray for finishing Swann’s Way, and a bigger yay for getting that first draft done!! Please let me know if and when you need beta readers? I’m finishing a great book by a novelist new to me, a former Joffre ballet dancer named Meg Howrey. The book is The Wanderers, about three astronauts training to go to Mars. So well researched - but it’s the characters who matter most.
Love the photos and bullet points! I use highlighters and add tons of marginalia. Good stuff. I own Swan’s Way and have read chunks but never read it all. I need to. I recently started War and Peace. Also been on a Dostoevsky kick.
I read War and Peace a few years ago and now I wish I'd written in the margins! It helps me so much! What other big reads have you done? Which Dostoyevsky most recently? Do you have opinions on translations?
Hooray for finishing Swann’s Way, and a bigger yay for getting that first draft done!! Please let me know if and when you need beta readers? I’m finishing a great book by a novelist new to me, a former Joffre ballet dancer named Meg Howrey. The book is The Wanderers, about three astronauts training to go to Mars. So well researched - but it’s the characters who matter most.
That sounds really good, Mo! I read The Martian recently and surprised myself by getting into a space travel story!
You and Di and Karl are at the top of my beta reader list, I'm going to hold you to it!💗💗💗
Love the photos and bullet points! I use highlighters and add tons of marginalia. Good stuff. I own Swan’s Way and have read chunks but never read it all. I need to. I recently started War and Peace. Also been on a Dostoevsky kick.
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I read War and Peace a few years ago and now I wish I'd written in the margins! It helps me so much! What other big reads have you done? Which Dostoyevsky most recently? Do you have opinions on translations?
Ha!! I feel ya. I reread Crime and Punishment, and behind that Notes of a Dead House, his prison memoir which is fascinating.