Fiction Book Club

For the first time in my life, I'm stopping reading a book because there are just too many errors. Thomas McCaughley I really like your book Silicon Burning , but I stop counting after 10 errors and I gave the next chapter a second chance, maybe you put the first one in last minute. It's good writing and I like the book. When you get a copy editor I'll try to read it again. It showed so much promise. When I was a high school freshman, I hoped my ideas would carry me past all the errors. My papers would come back all marked up in red. When I got a computer for college, my writing improved dramatically because of the spell check. But if the spell check can't figure out which word you were going for, doesn't list it as one of the options, you still have to figure out how to spell it. But it was more indentation errors and sentences that didn't make sense. Like someone had not read the final product. I don't know anything about you Thomas McCaughley, bu...

I absolutely love this book: An Odyssey . It perfectly weaves the story of the Odyssey, with teaching it in a classroom, with Mendelsohn's father attending. He writes about the art of story telling, meanwhile weaving a fascinating story. Also there is a travel aspect to it. You know that feeling that you're caught in the spell of a book--when you come out of it, you still feel the haze. I love looking up things, like Jacques Demy and Louise Brooks, butterfly bombs and oenophilia. I've reserved Demy's best movie, The Umbrellas of Charbourg, at the library. I didn't look up as many words like I did in Courtesans and Fishcakes . He tells the story in a modern form, like The Song of Achilles , explaining the cultural differences that side track us. This book is non-fiction, but it is about the Odyssey so it is about story telling. School of Homer, Agios Athanasios

I'm reading Miss Burma. Please join in and talk to me in the comments.