Warning: Triggers for rape, sexual assault and stalking.
Two weeks ago, I claimed that I had to read “Heart of Darkness” as my next uni book. Turns out I got that wrong: what I was meant to have read was this week’s review subject, “Disgrace” by J.M. Coetzee. This book won not only the Booker Prize, but also the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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And I hated it.
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Last year, my MA course attended an event in Canterbury where we got to hear Essie Fox talk about her latest work, “The Last Days of Leda Grey”. Unlike her three previous books (which I’m still to read), “Leda Grey” is Edwardian rather than Victorian, and its premise intrigued me enough that I had to give it a try.
I was not disappointed.
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As I may have mentioned before, I’m doing a part-time master’s degree in Creative Writing: Prose Fiction; one of my modules in second year is The Novel and myself and my classmates picked the books, such as “Cloud Atlas” (which is why I finished it despite not enjoying it).
Our first book of Term Two? “Heart of Darkness”.
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“Cloud Atlas” is a difficult book to write about. Rather than being a single continuous novel, it’s more like six short stories wrapped up inside each other like a Russian doll. As such, I will be skimming quite a bit so that I don’t bore you to death before this review is over.
I can sum it up in three words, though: this book sucks.
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~ Penny
Related Post: Short Trailer for “Write Nothing”: 1st February 2016
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Just popping in quickly to say that I’ve been published! I wrote a review of “Sex, Drugs and Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD)” by Luke Jackson and it’s been published by Disability Now!
You can read the review by clicking right here!
~ Penny
Related Post: 15/11/2015: Good News Comes In Threes
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~ Penny
Related Post: 27/05/15: “To Be Dead”
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~ Penny
Related Post: Wednesday 20th May 2015: Return and FYIS
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Hello and welcome back to Word Count Wednesday!
… what’s that?
It’s Thursday already?
Oh. Well. Oops. Looks like time got away from me, doesn’t it?
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But that doesn’t matter. What’s important is that I’ve been writing!
But how much have I written?
3,158 words including my homework! Which is an average of about 451 words per day.
And you know what? That isn’t a bad start for a new year, especially when I’m so busy with university work.
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It’s important to be gentle when getting back into the swing of things. And now I’m there, I can only write more.
~ Penny
Related Post: Word Count Wednesday: A New Beginning
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Happy New Year! I hope 2014 was as good as it could have been for you. And if it was hard, remember that things can only get better.
Here’s to more blog posts, more stories, and more joy in 2015!
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~ Penny
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