Comments on: Of Audubon and Alba

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:57:28 +0000

Ashley, you might love Toni Morrison, too. She "out-Faulkners" Faulkner. I adore her writing.

Cathy, I knew there was something about you I liked. :) Fifty-three days! I'm rooting for you, toots!

By: Cathy Miller

Cathy Miller — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:11:10 +0000

I'll have to jump on The Sound & Fury bandwagon. :-)

Our horrible air quality grounded me again this weekend. No walks. I hate that. But, we got some rain (not enough), but enough to get me out there this morning. Yay!!

I'm getting excited about the 3-Day Walk. 53 days and counting!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:51:31 +0000

Ah, fellow Faulkner lovers, I'm in good company. (But I knew that already!) I read a bunch of him in school as an English major, but I haven't picked him up for fun. Now I'm inspired.

My weekend was good. Turned in one assignment, did some business housekeeping and had an interview for a profile I'm writing. It feels really good to get some of the bitty, annoying things done that I keep putting off.

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:58:41 +0000

Devon, glad to hear Coursera is working out! Happy to introduce people to that place --it's just great.

I love The Sound and The Fury too, but it's not my favorite. My favorite is Light in August, which I think is his best. His technique is one I'm mirroring in my own fiction, but only the parts that feel true to my own style.

Hope you're feeling better, Paula! Sucks when you're sick over the weekend. It's like detention!

After reading S&F three times, I did get the POV switch down. Took a while, though!

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:50:18 +0000

Like Devon, The Sound and the Fury is my favorite Faulkner work. It was also the first Faulkner I read (unless I read his Barn Burner story first...unsure of the order). That's a challenging intro to Faulkner, but I read it in one weekend for an American Lit class....I read it before the professor explained how each section was from the POV of a different character. Somehow I figured it out (although at first I thought Quentin had a sex change). A classic novel that demands the occasional re-read.

I've been sick all weekend, but still managed to to some laundry, steam acorn squash to make Ellie Krieger's mac & cheese (pretty good, but I'd sub more extra-sharp Cheddar for the blah Monterey Jack), Swiffer the floor, work on a résumé, do lots of dishes, and cover/uncover my outdoor plants to avoid frost. I also drank about 20 cups of tea per day.

Today I have the final two interviews for an article due next week (I hope my voice holds out and I don't have any coughing fits during the calls).

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:28:14 +0000

So sorry you had a rough weekend. Mine had unexpected things come up, but the writing rocked, and I'm very happy with the results. I'm LOVING my Coursera classes. Working my butt off, but so much I didn't expect is coming out of the class, and I can use pretty much all the material I'm writing for the class in the real world.

FAULKNER's great. My favorite is still THE SOUND AND THE FURY, but I can only read one FAulkner a year and really submerge in him.