Pamela Bedore

English prof at UConn Avery Point. Teach Pop Literature, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, Gender Theory

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So yeah....Hugh MacLennan's *Two Solitudes* (1945) is much more interesting at age 50 than it was last time I read it (age 15). Makes me wonder about the pros and cons of having high school students read the classics. It probably shaped my thinking...but I missed a lot too!

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"I would suggest here that the history of philosophy after Newton could be thought of as a series of confrontations with the question of how to talk about falling."
--Cathy Caruth

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@manuelawag Big hugs, Manuela. ❤️

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“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.”
— Lauren Groff

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Just started *Light From Uncommon Stars* -- magical (just like everyone says).

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I love a good "Day of Writing Dangerously" (nanowrimo)

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“You can’t clobber any reader while he’s looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him.”
— Flannery O’Connor

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“How easily we forget-we in the business of storytelling- that life was the point all along.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

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*Project Hail Mary* is a fun book...and excellent for a discussion group!

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OMG -- how is it November 15??? I am NOT at 25,000 words of nano. Sigh.

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“Beware of advice — even this.”
— Carl Sandburg

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“Read poetry aloud and try to heighten in every way your sensitivity to the sound and rhythm and shape of sentences. The music of words.”
— Janet Fitch

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@Flctionista I definitely understand that....

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Wow. I just got really stressed out reading *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* even though I totally know how it ends. Now THAT is good writing!

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“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
— Haruki Murakami

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“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
— Doris Lessing

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“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
— Tim O'Brien

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“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.”
— Don DeLillo

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@dmsblue01 Good luck!!!

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Day 1 of Nanowrimo!!!