There 'is no authority for the abuse of cheese',or so we're told. Maybe she's right. Perhaps potatoes are the best ingredient for breakfast. Could we have it all wrong? Breakfast is dinner, dinner should really include cereal???
I hear it's best for dieting. The metabolism is raring to work first thing, before the sluggish plodding of night.
Poor Stein, she has a bad rep. What with all the oddities of her use of language. Showing the readers that not a thing makes sense. Why should it? In fact what if the reverse, the oddities of convention make more sense. If of course there is sense.
'Why am I reading this!' I hear you scream. Is there a point? Well, no. Not really. The point is that there is no point. This is the joy of Gertrude Stein.
For the best Stein poem follow this link http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/ifitoldnew.html
Or, even better, an interpretive dance to the poem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NppkBGkMctI
Introducing the world to oddities and away from convention!
Monday, 9 April 2012
Monday, 2 April 2012
First book!
Eight weeks to plan, write, edit and produce a book. Wow! Busy few weeks, I can tell you! The book launch is looming, only a few days before the speech begins. I'm not a public speaker, not about my own work anyway. This speech could be the most grueling aspect! It's only five minutes sure, five very long minutes, of fumbling over words and sweat. Buckets of sweat. Not to mention the blushing, lighting the room like a beacon.
Oh, for any crime lovers find my book at blurb.com, then search my book Ann-Marie Fleming, The Scenic Route.
A quick synopsis: Julia Penn is an ice cream munching criminal detective. Sent to Rome to solve a murder, where Julia faces drugs and sexism. Will she solve the crime? Or are the limits of the law too much?
It's a short novel, I had a word limit. I would have preferred a longer first novel, but what an experience! An article is due in my local paper, pretty crazy really. Crazy to think of myself as a small time author.
Once this book launch is out of the way I may consider a new project.Perhaps another Penn novel, a longer, more advanced one.
Penn: The Criminal Series will be cool...hmmm...Much work to do if that were ever to be the case.
Until then, I'm a blogger and proud.
Oh, for any crime lovers find my book at blurb.com, then search my book Ann-Marie Fleming, The Scenic Route.
A quick synopsis: Julia Penn is an ice cream munching criminal detective. Sent to Rome to solve a murder, where Julia faces drugs and sexism. Will she solve the crime? Or are the limits of the law too much?
It's a short novel, I had a word limit. I would have preferred a longer first novel, but what an experience! An article is due in my local paper, pretty crazy really. Crazy to think of myself as a small time author.
Once this book launch is out of the way I may consider a new project.Perhaps another Penn novel, a longer, more advanced one.
Penn: The Criminal Series will be cool...hmmm...Much work to do if that were ever to be the case.
Until then, I'm a blogger and proud.
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