Comments on: What’s Your Story? (Are You Sure?)

By: marta

marta — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:37:59 +0000

@John - Never listen to me about movies. I'll like just about anything. I liked the Inkheart movie, but I'm sure it won't be on anyone's top ten list.

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:08:19 +0000

marta: Had never even heard of Inkheart before reading your comment. What a fabulous premise, though!

(Looks like the movie got so-so reviews, but the book — series — sounds outstanding.)

By: marta

marta — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:51:29 +0000

@John - I've talked about that movie on my bog! Love Emma Thompson's writer. Recently saw Inkheart. Have you seen it? When a man reads out loud, what he reads comes real. But when characters come out of a book, someone from the real world goes in. The one writer this reader meets decides to go live in his book. There's a scary thought.

By: John

John — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:53:39 +0000

Jules: Well, you know, it's awful damned hard to leave 7-Imp feeling uninformed... At the risk of crossing some sort of line: It occurred to me last evening -- while watching a Men in Black II re-run -- that if Naomi Shihab Nye married Tony Shalhoub, she'd be Naomi Shihab Shalhoub. For some reason that thought just made me burst out laughing. (Luckily, it's of course a comedy already, so I didn't have to explain.) Squirrel: Often while reading one of your little pieces, I get the sense that it twisted out of your grasp while you were fashioning it. Blood on the Tracks was an utterly exhilarating experience to listen to the first time. The grooves it's worn in my consciousness run pretty deep by now, but it still brings to me a thrill. :) marta: You are an inspiration to any of us who hope to second-guess ourselves and ouir lives and our words a tenth as much as you do yours. Heh. Do you know the movie Stranger than Fiction? A favorite. Will Ferrell plays the fictional main character in novelist Emma Thompson's latest book -- who hunts her down in real life to stop her from bumping him off. Talk about a complex relationship between author and work.

By: marta

marta — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:24:39 +0000

@John – My grandmother used to keep a piece of paper over her peephole because she was worried someone could see her shadow. Then there was this movie where someone was shot in the eye through a peephole.

See? My neurosis covers even peepholes. Not that I think my novels would actually shoot me…

By: The Querulous Squirrel

The Querulous Squirrel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:55:06 +0000

My stories never come out the way I expect and in the end teach me something or tell me something new or just tell me a joke. It’s always a surprise, like the wind shifting. I love Nye in general and this poem is new to me as well. Love that whole Dylan album.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:14:00 +0000

You always manage to feature the poems of my favorite poets that I HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE. (Er, the poems, that is.) That Nye is new to me.

Just when I think I know someone’s work…But then I always learn something new when I come here.

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:59:57 +0000

marta: I can see that. In which case, if they really are "planning something bad," God help you. Be sure to use the peephole thing. :)

By: marta

marta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:46:08 +0000

The Story, Around the Corner made me think of my novels lining up at my door. eek.

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:14:53 +0000

Darc: Well, yeah, but I was actually referring to the work required to hear and understand them. :)