Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
I don't think I would have ever read it if Rosie didn't make me but I'm really glad I did. It was beautifully written and I'm going to use a lot of it in my own writing and when I teach writing. ( )
Collection of essays that pertain to life, identity, and writing. Notwithstanding the title, this book is not a traditional “how to” book about writing. It is more about finding an authentic voice, and how the events in Chee’s life shaped him as a writer. He writes about significant experiences (such as his Korean American heritage, the death of his father when he was sixteen, his involvement in gay activism) and how these have influenced his development as an author. There are some beautiful and moving pieces here. I particularly appreciated his essays about tending a rose garden and how he used his own childhood trauma as the foundation for his first novel. Chee is a talented writer, and these essays were a pleasure to read.
“The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do.” ( )
Moving, insightful collection of essays about finding your identity and your voice as a writer. Chee is obviously passionate and knowledgeable in his craft, but it in his grappling with childhood traumas that arise through the writing process where the essays really shine. Would be a good collection for young aspiring writers to read. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To my mother and father, who taught me how to fight
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
I spent the summer I turned fifteen on an exchange program to Tuxtla Guitiérrez, the capital of the state of Chiapas, in Mexico, some three hundred miles north of the Guatemalan border.
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do - I think it is even what fiction is for.
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
I am, it should be said, someone who did lose his faith. I may in fact be pusillanimous, even as a condition of my faith in myself, and at times I despair. I do not write as much as I should. I do not always think that when I die I will have the chance to see my dead again. But for now, I live and work and I feel them watching me.
And so I leave this here now, for them, and for you.
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