Story reading
Jun. 5th, 2003 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThere were fewer people at story reading last night than I'd originally expected, but that didn't matter: there was lots of interesting stuff read.
Queue read a new poem, which got many comments.
Treacle_Well read a chapter from Winesburg, Ohio, and later read the chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh on hunting Woozles :-). I so need to reread that book (and to remember that chapters from there are wonderful read aloud). Thinking back on it, I'm surprised at some of the vocabulary, but I suppose I've unfortunately been warped by modern books that limit which words they use.
Hauntmeister read from Huckleberry Finn, an exerpt including a very interesting version of a Shakespeare soliloquy.
Majes read the third chapter of his sf novel, introducing yet more characters.
Theora read a couple of Seamus Heaney's poems.
Geeyodi read two fairy tales from a favorite fairy tale book. One was familiar to me (flowers and jewels vs snakes and toads coming out of sisters' mouths): I pulled out my copy and we compared illustration styles. The other was new to me, with a princess in a donkey skin; we all enjoyed pointing out the implausibilities of that one.
I read Nothing Ever Happens on My Block (a picture book by Ellen Raskin); an essay from Barbara Kingsolver's new book (Small Wonder, a very good read) about traveling to Japan; and four letters from a book of letters that were pretty funny.
And the snacks were appreciated, too.
Quotes of the evening:
"I like your 'nads."
"My lips are vibrating."
Queue read a new poem, which got many comments.
Treacle_Well read a chapter from Winesburg, Ohio, and later read the chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh on hunting Woozles :-). I so need to reread that book (and to remember that chapters from there are wonderful read aloud). Thinking back on it, I'm surprised at some of the vocabulary, but I suppose I've unfortunately been warped by modern books that limit which words they use.
Hauntmeister read from Huckleberry Finn, an exerpt including a very interesting version of a Shakespeare soliloquy.
Majes read the third chapter of his sf novel, introducing yet more characters.
Theora read a couple of Seamus Heaney's poems.
Geeyodi read two fairy tales from a favorite fairy tale book. One was familiar to me (flowers and jewels vs snakes and toads coming out of sisters' mouths): I pulled out my copy and we compared illustration styles. The other was new to me, with a princess in a donkey skin; we all enjoyed pointing out the implausibilities of that one.
I read Nothing Ever Happens on My Block (a picture book by Ellen Raskin); an essay from Barbara Kingsolver's new book (Small Wonder, a very good read) about traveling to Japan; and four letters from a book of letters that were pretty funny.
And the snacks were appreciated, too.
Quotes of the evening:
"I like your 'nads."
"My lips are vibrating."