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RE: Glass Castle memoir + Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2605: bad sign

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Girl! I'm reading a book that you might like, "What Happened to Henry?" by Sharon Pywell. It starts off a bit sluggishly, then gets really good! Sharon was a friend of mine way back in the day, and she said she wanted to write The Great American Novel, along the lines of Bonfire of the Vanities. This is not quite that (thankfully) but it's very very good.

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     2 days ago  

    Thanks for the recommendation. Just reading her blog and her bio at GoodReads, I love her!
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    https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/133576.Sharon_Pywell/blog

    Like other teachers, she finds:

    .... students increasingly resist reading anything longer than a text. Of course this isn’t all students. But something’s changing. There’s a connection between this pattern and the current state of the Union: reading fiction develops the capacity to see contradiction, decode the implied, value the truth. Not reading does the opposite.
    I have been confused by the increasing trouble my students have explaining what is truly going on in human interactions they find in fiction. How does this character feel? I may ask. “Good,” they’ll say. They ignore the fact that the character is lying and the preceding hundred pages made that clear. Lies, I have told my students, are the engines that drive the narrative arc upward to its crisis point ....

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     2 days ago  

    I think you will really like her writing style. She writes some bits in a Japanese mind, thoughts that are shared by an American mind, that are gorgeous. Lots of research had to have gone into that. Prescience, purgatory, religiousity or not. Now that I have told you this much, you really must read it.

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       14 hours ago  

      I'm starting Chapter 3 - THANK YOU for the recommendation. I love this author!
      Her voice!
      This little girl with all her questions. The awful nun. The martyred saint.
      Bought the ebook yesterday and love love love it!

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         9 hours ago  

        Oh good! I was pretty sure you would. The nun comes back from the dead! I ended up loving her. Spoiler! Sorry!

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