Bethany tagged me for this one…
1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why?
If I absolutely had to pick one, I guess I would have to say Robertson Davies. His books fill me up completely. I posted this quote from Zadie Smith once before, but it bears repeating, since it’s the answer to the second part of this question. Just substitute Davies for Forster.
Debra’s comment on my last post got me thinking. She said that the idea of keeping journals on behalf of D&D characters is “a way to approach first-person narrative that hadn’t occurred to me before.” The more I thought about it, the more I realized what a fascinating process it is. I wasn’t kidding when I said it was probably the most fun I’d ever had writing anything.
This week’s theme is to write about “other forms of storytelling, aside from books.” Heh, that’s easy. My favorite form of storytelling is the collaborative kind: Dungeons & Dragons. Oh yeah. A good D&D campaign follows the same kind of arc as any good story, as the plot unfolds and the tension & suspense increase. Hopefully there is a happy ending, but don’t count on it, bwahahahaha! Best of all, in D&D you are creating the story as you go. The Dungeon Master gives you the broad outlines, the setting, the overall goal of the quest, but the twists and turns of the plot are created by the players.
Oy veh! What a busy week! Those of you with school-age children (I have three) know that this time of year is almost as bad as December, what with recitals, field trips, and all those end of year events, not to mention the figuring out of what’s going to keep ‘em occupied all summer long. As a result, I didn’t pay much attention to Bookworm this week. I didn’t write my Weekly Geeks post (it would have been a rant against the medical model of childbirth, but I’ve done that already anyway and furthermore I haven’t read a single book on the subject), I haven’t responded to recent comments, and my RSS reader is full of unread posts. I do hope to catch up this week, but there’s still a few more end of year events coming up so we’ll see what happens.
Read more on Sunday Salon: a young woman, a serial killer, and a little girl…
Greetings, Saloners! I hope you had a good week of reading. This week I finished one, started another (well, started two, actually), and had a couple of reading experiences that were a pleasant change from the usual.
Oh my goodness, I hardly know where to begin. This book was so much fun to read! The basic premise is, it’s an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars — with dragons! Yes, that’s right. There was an aerial combat corps (dragons) at the Nile, at Trafalgar, and so forth. Hoo boy!
Well, I’m having so much fun reading other Weekly Geeks’ lists of childhood favorites that I thought I better post one of my own after all. I am going to try to list only books that I haven’t already mentioned in other posts. So no Joan Aiken, no Louisa May Alcott, no Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Lois Lowry, Madeleine L’Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Noel Streatfeild or Elizabeth Enright, and no obscure German authors in translation. (Yikes! Who’s left?)
