Wednesday, September 8, 2010
AND FOR A HUMOROUS INTERLUDE
[I had a video embedded in this post but you can't open the blog without it starting up, so I switched to this link. It's worth watching (and as I say in a comment below, I only wish they'd had this technology when I was a book critic at The Washington Post back in the '70s).]
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Great!
Caitlin
Very funny...but I'm not sure why everyone has a jones against Franzen...have you read him...I haven't. Should I?
It's pretty funny isn't it Cait?
As for Anonymous's question, I read an excerpt from THE CORRECTIONS. I admired the writing but it didn't make me fall in love with the book and want to put the time and energy into it. But I have friends who loved it and insist I read it all the way through.
I only put this on the blog because first of all it's so humorous, but also because this guy is a book critic for The Washington Post, which I also was back in the '70s and I only wish the technology to do a review on camera had been around then!
Well, why don't you do it now? You're certainly even more hip than he is. Although I bet he has more beanie babies than you.
Hey Connie, if someone would pay me and help me master the technology I might consider it. But in reality it pays, at least it used to, very little, nowhere near enough to make up for the time and effort needed to do all the reading and research and writing and rewriting etc. (I used to write for Kirkus reviews back in those days as well, and their reviews had to be extremely short, and as a cartoon in their office had it "If I'd had more time I could have written less"—there's a real art to reviewing when it's done well, as there obviously is to making (filiming/editing/etc.) videos. A lot more effort than the off-the-top-of-my-head kinds of reviews I do on this blog that rely almost entirely on what my brain is offering up from its files at the moment to bolster my opinions and perspective on the things I'm interested in and hope some others might be as well. See, I've already written too much!
Well, at least we have the blog. And that's OK with me. Thanks.
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