PaulPallazola
February 13, 2018.
I have always loved a good novel. Writers like James Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway can move me to another place and time and for years I have loved the travel. After Viterbo and Violeta were born there was a long stretch when I had no time for reading except for children’s books.
I hadn’t read a Stephen King novel in three decades, but the motion picture “It” inspired me to check out the book. Over 1100 pages long, it clearly has a great deal more depth than the film. The book chronicles the struggles of seven children against a monster that has lived under their city for centuries, a monster that feeds on the fears of children and manifests itself…as a clown, a bird, a wearwolf, or whatever dreadful nightmare it can seize upon from a child’s imagination. The children band together, confront the monster, and think they’ve killed it until…27 years later it starts all over again, and honoring their childhood promise, they return to finish what they started…..
It took me three weeks, but it was well worth it.
I’m currently reading “Women Who Run With the Wolves.”
What’s that about? I was thinking of writing one called “Men Who Won’t Let Their Daughter Date Wolves”…
“Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D,. Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman’s vitality can be restored through what she calls “psychic archeological digs” into the ruins of the female unconscious. In “Women Who Run with the Wolves,” Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.”
You should write that one, Paul! 🙂
That sounds like an excellent book, hope you’re finding it helpful.
Definitely! I credit this book for encouraging me to break out of the prison cell of my last relationshit.
A good deal of my work is informed by books
All things in moderation Carol…enjoy them both 🙂
I know I know, I need to pace myself. Thanks for the reminder.
I should be reading and get off this computer!
You can read many novels online
Yes I know, I have tried that actually. But I do need a break from the computer screen.
I prefer analog myself, just saying that you can read online; there is no need to get off the machine to read. But if you like your reading to be done in a prone position, then we have something in common
Online reading is convenient. I actually prefer my recliner most of the time.