Comments on: IBPA Board Book Recommendations http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/06/ibpa-board-book-recommendations/ Thoughts on Writing and Publishing Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: bob http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/06/ibpa-board-book-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-85 bob Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:55:22 +0000 http://thewritethought.com/blog/?p=183#comment-85 That's a good way to describe it. To my knowledge, no one has ever called "The Road" a "fun read" or a "romp." I imagined myself in the father when my son was the age of the child. I still cry when I reread the end of the book...really. Didion isn't exactly uplifting either. But she is a terrific writer. I don't believe I have ever read anyone who was better able to capture feelings in words. That’s a good way to describe it. To my knowledge, no one has ever called “The Road” a “fun read” or a “romp.” I imagined myself in the father when my son was the age of the child. I still cry when I reread the end of the book…really.

Didion isn’t exactly uplifting either. But she is a terrific writer. I don’t believe I have ever read anyone who was better able to capture feelings in words.

]]> By: Steve http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/06/ibpa-board-book-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Steve Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:16:02 +0000 http://thewritethought.com/blog/?p=183#comment-83 Hey Bob, "The Road" is the most depressing book I couldn't put down. I'll order Didion's book. Sorry the iPhone passed you by. Hey Bob,
“The Road” is the most depressing book I couldn’t put down. I’ll order Didion’s book. Sorry the iPhone passed you by.

]]> By: Bob http://thewritethought.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/06/ibpa-board-book-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Bob Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00:12 +0000 http://thewritethought.com/blog/?p=183#comment-82 Steve, Either your cell phone never got to my end of the table or I was in the library when it did, so I didn't get to recommend "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. It and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" were probably the 2 most moving books I've read this decade. It was a good board meeting and apparently a literary one, too! Now the fun part is trying to figure out who recommended what book! Steve,

Either your cell phone never got to my end of the table or I was in the library when it did, so I didn’t get to recommend “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. It and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” were probably the 2 most moving books I’ve read this decade.

It was a good board meeting and apparently a literary one, too! Now the fun part is trying to figure out who recommended what book!

]]>