#ann tyler

[poetsandwriters]

'If I waited till I felt like writing , I’d never write at all.' [advised] Ann Tyler. 'Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.' I have learned that it isn’t wise to wait for inspiration; inspiration will meet me at my desk writing.

Oyinkan Braithwaite, in this week’s Ten Questions; read the rest at pw.org!

[lesbianartandartists]

Ann Tyler, It’s No Different Than, 1999

Similar to Tyler’s book Lubb Dup, It’s No Different Than poetically exposes and explores the brutality, hate, and ignorance involved in violence against homosexuals. In this book, Tyler responds to killer Robert Acremant’s assertion that murdering a lesbian couple was "no different than shooting your chicken…or putting your dog to sleep or shooting at tin cans." The spiral bound book is split into three sections that create an "exquisite corpse" in which the faces of victims Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill merge with the head of a dog and a chicken with the turning of each page.

[happyhappypuppy]

アン・タイラー著・小川高義訳 『この道の先に、いつもの赤毛』 /Anne Tyler "Redhead by the side of the road"

コンピューターの便利屋をしながら一人暮らす43歳のマイカという男性が主人公。主人公が自分と年代も性別も違う人物だからなのか、穏やかでゆったりとした文章のおかげなのか、静かな気持ちで読めた。マイカの日常は常にきっちりと決まったルーティンで作られている。しかし、自分を父親ではないかと疑う一人の大学生の青年によって「いつも通り」の日常に揺らぎが起こる。私はマイカよりもマイカの恋人キャスのほうが共感できた。マイカの恋人からすると、マイカは自分で思っているよりも神経質で融通が利かず、ちょっと冷たいところがある。マイカ自身はそうでもないと思っている…。物語を通して、驚くイベントはない。しかし、日々を生きる人々の間の少しのずれや行き違いが描かれていて、自分を省みようという気分にさせられた。また、マイカとかつての恋人との間で起こった寂しいすれ違いはリアルで、大切な人との向き合い方を思い直させてくれる。

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The main character is Maika, who is a man of forty-three, lives alone while working as a computer handyman. He is different from me in age and sex and the text of this book is calm and loose, so I could read it without upsetting my mind. Maika's daily life is made by his neat routing. However, a man appears in front of him and he doubts Maika is his father. I felt empathy with Maika's lover Cass rather than Maika. From Cass's point of view, Maika is more nervous, inflexible and insensitive than he thinks. In this story, there is no surprising event. Tyler writes people's little discrepancy in their daily life. Especially, the cross-purposes between Maika and his ex-girl friend are real for me. I thought I should reconsider how to come face to face with my precious people.

[nochargebookbunch]

Books on My To-Read List

Books on My To-Read List

Twenty new books on my wish list – most by authors I have enjoyed before. I know I have missed some – let me know if you have any to add. * Books I plan to read first.

The Queens’s Fortune by Allison Pataki  (historical fiction of Napoleon’s Josephine, written by the author of Sisi

Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles (author of News of the World)

Redhead by the Side of the Roadby Anne Tyler…

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[la-pescatrice-di-asterischi]

Benvenuto ottobre!

Finalmente siamo entrati nel mese di ottobre, il caldo va scomparendo, io e la mia copertina ci stiamo riconciliando e inizio a bere le prime tazze di the caldo. Anche se le temperature si aggirano intorno ai venti gradi, di giorno, finalmente sento che sta arrivando quella brezza frizzantina che solletica il viso e non fa increspare i capelli… Benvenuto ottobre!

In tre giorni ho fatto fuori due…

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[rhodasommer]

My Love Affair with Reading

Noah’s Compass by Ann Tyler is my first delightful reading discovery of 2010. Anne Tyler knows the beauty of ordinary people. In her character of Liam Pennywell she tells the story of a man who loses his job at 61 and finds the terrain of relationships completely befuddling. We find ourselves loving his willingness to live simply and to keep on trying to sort people out despite his constant confusion. His story is deeply touching because deep down in our own hearts we know we are all ordinary, confused and heroic. He is us.

I am grateful to have the gift of never tiring of people’s stories. As a therapist, I step into people’s lives and have the time to hear the details, to push for the details in all of their complexity. A wonderful author can create that same experience.

Liam was interrupted early in his life, as a student of philosophy who never finished his dissertation or Ph.D. In a painful argument with his daughter, he asks her for forgiveness and explains the Greek philosopher Epictetus:  “Epictetus says that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one by which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don’t take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact he is your brother. That’s how it can be borne.” Another reason to read great authors is to be touched by wisdom. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to help people make pain bearable and this quote is especially meaningful.

Reading helps us to understand relationships, the world and ourselves. Reading is one way to consider our own shortcomings. We read Liam’s description of himself “I just….don’t seem to have the hang of things, somehow. It’s as if I’ve never been entirely present in my own life.” Then we can ask ourselves “Is that also true of me in any way?” We can read about people who are misguided in love, who are easily manipulated and who lack courage. We can learn their lessons and decide to develop greater character within ourselves.

We can live an entire lifetime different from our own by reading books and then decide what’s important, what matters. Reading Black Flies by Shannon Burke gave me an unforgettable glimpse of what it was like to be a paramedic in Harlem in the mid 1990’s. Reading Pretty Birds by Scott Simon helped me to understand a Bosnian female sniper during a war I didn’t know enough about. Reading Neuromancer by William Gibson who coined the term “virtual reality” offered a powerful glimpse of the future before it came to pass, no small feat. Reading The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak and living life through a nine year old whose parents are taken away by the Nazis for being communists. She survives by stealing books. It is Death that narrates this riveting tale and we are surprised to learn that death fears humans. Reading increases my ability to imagine a life completely different from the one I live; this is not a small gift considering our culture suffers from a poverty of imagination.

My Love Affair with Reading was originally published on Therapy Ideas

[steadfastreader]

Three for One Thursday: Tournament of Books

Three for One Thursday: Tournament of Books

  Bats of the Republic by: Zachary Thomas Dodson Mini-Synopsis: A historical fiction/dystopian fiction crossover bound together with a beautifully illuminated text. Mini-Review: This book is clever and manages to straddle two very different (seemingly incompatible) genres at the same time. But first, a word of warning. This book absolutely must be read in the hardcover edition.  No Kindle or…

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[lastelladellasenna]

(via Recensione "Guida rapida agli addii" di Ann Tyler) “Si può gestire qualunque cosa, perfino le prove più complicate della vita, basta suddividerle in parti abbastanza piccole”, scrive Ann Tyler in “Guida rapida agli addii“ http://milleletture.com/recensione-guida-rapida-agli-addii-di-ann-tyler/