[stylist] In reply to Ashley about my blog

Mon Jan 16 01:06:29 UTC 2012

To Ashley,

You asked about my blog. Here is the address, although I warn you, it's very 
boring. I use it to talk about anything. And sometimes I go weeks without a 
new post. Lately I'm on an NFL kick, so you might see a lot of stuff about 
that.

http://www.soapbox00.blogspot.com

Thanks,
Natalie

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From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:07 PM
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] what I've been reading...

> what  is your blog? I'll take a look
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Nat Barrett
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:06 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] what I've been reading...
>
>
> To list,
>
> I e-mailed Bridgit today to compliment her on the Breath and Shadow essay,
> and she mentioned that I'd been quiet on the list. Lol. I've had some
> personal issues lately and things have been piling up.
>
> Anwyay, I wanted to combine comments. I've been catching up on the list 
> from
> about two weeks back. Two things.
> May I just say that I'm pretty proud of myself. For 2011 I read 174 books.
> That doesn't' include the ones that I read some pages and then stopped
> because the books just weren't that good. This year I'm challenging myself
> to read at least 200.
>
> I also started a blog last year reviewing books. My fiction writing hasn't
> really been taking off, so I've been trying to motivate myself to write
> anything. So far I've done too many romance book reviews and am trying to
> also challenge myself to branch out.
>
> Anyway, you all were also talking about speedreading audibly. I must say 
> for
> myself when I first used Jaws back in 1999, I had it so very slow. But as 
> I
> adjusted to the voice, I began reading faster and faster.
>
> I, too, will fall asleep if I'm not constantly moving around when I'm
> reading. I try to do chores. Laundry, dishes, sweeping. Most times I 
> listen
> to books while I scan other books to submit to Bookshare. That definitely
> keeps my hands moving and since it's awfully, awfully boring work, it 
> makes
> the scanning go a lost faster!
>
> Anyway, good luck to everyone in 2012 with their writing goals. (smile)
> Natalie
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:31 AM
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] what I've been reading...
>
>> Chris,
>> I get Choice magazine, and just got my new copy. I find it has excellent
>> selections.
>> Your book list is varied, and exciting. I do not know how it is possible 
>> to
>> be such a prolific reader to finish so many books. Are they all recorded 
>> or
>> digital books? That is to say do you listen? Or do you have enough sight 
>> to
>> read them. The reason I ask is that even if I am listening to a riveting
>> book, I fall   asleep after forty minutes or so. How can you be a speed
>> reader with a taped selection.
>> Your books are exciting enough to keep most on the edge of their seats.
>> Admiration abounds.
>> Jackie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Chris Kuell
>> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:07 PM
>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [stylist] what I've been reading...
>>
>> A month or so ago it was suggested we write book reviews, but I didn't
>> notice much interest in the group. However, I will share a little about 
>> what
>> I've read in the last 6 weeks.
>>
>>
>>
>> chris
>>
>>
>>
>> Books read since  November 15:
>>
>>
>>
>> The Reversal by Michael Connelly  (2010)
>>
>> The latest in the Harry Bosch series, I think the main purpose of this 
>> novel
>> was to make Harry's half-brother, Mickey Haller, a defense attorney, more
>> prominent. It sets up the next Bosch novel, and perhaps a series for the
>> brother?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sixty-One Hours by Lee Child  (2010)
>>
>> Perhaps the best of the Jack Reacher novels. It's an action packed 
>> adventure
>> about a Mexican drug lord, tons of methamphetamine and a small town 
>> police
>> force in South Dakota.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris (2010)
>>
>> Ferris's writing is terse and takes a little getting used to, but once 
>> you
>> do, you'll be drawn into this gut-wrenching novel about a man's attempt 
>> to
>> deal with mental illness. He loses his job, his wife and daughter, but 
>> still
>> does the best he can.
>>
>>
>>
>> Working in the Shadows: A Year Doing the Jobs Most American's Won't do by
>> Gabriel Thompson  (2010)
>>
>> An excellent non-fiction book, the writer goes 'undercover' working in a
>> lettuce field, in a chicken processing plant and at various crappy jobs 
>> in
>> NYC, and experiences how immigrants are treated and paid (or often, not).
>>
>>
>>
>> Scorpion in the Sea by P.T.Deutermann   (1992)
>>
>> A Naval based action-adventure novel, I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
>>
>>
>>
>> In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness edited by Donna Seaman  (2000)
>>
>> A series of short stories that loosely deal with nature-the great 
>> outdoors,
>> our sexual nature, our power struggles, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rogue Warrior: Green Team by Richard Marshenko and John Weissman  (1995)
>>
>> Marshenko was a navy seal, and is narcissistic enough to write novels 
>> based
>> on himself as the baddest bad-ass of them all. What's really interesting
>> about this particular book are his views on Islamic fundamentalists and 
>> his
>> predictions of the terrorist havoc they would unleash across the globe.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Good Soldiers by David Finkle  (2009)
>>
>> This Pulitzer-prize winner spends 14 months with a group of soldiers 
>> during
>> the 2007 'surge' in Iraq. Unlike the previous Marshenko novel, where war 
>> is
>> glorified, this is bone-chilling, horrible, and real. He describes real 
>> men
>> (boys? The age of the average American soldier is 20) being maimed and/or
>> killed in what are essentially useless battles in Iraq. After a year of
>> fighting, trying to rebuild a destroyed city's sewer, power and water
>> systems-Iraqi insurgents blow it all up so they are back at point 0.
>>
>>
>>
>> Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1961)
>>
>> A very interesting novella, this originally was published as 2 short 
>> stories
>> in the New Yorker in the late 50s. Franny is a disillusioned college 
>> girl,
>> and Zooey is her older brother trying to set her straight regarding the
>> 'Jesus prayer'.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Best American Science Writing 2010, edited by Jerome Groopman
>>
>> These articles, which were primarily medical in nature, were quite
>> fascinating, if a touch dated. I took notes on 2 of the pieces as 
>> research
>> information for future stories some day.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rizzo's War by Lou Manfredo  (2009)
>>
>> A former Brooklyn cop writing a story about. Brooklyn cops. And 
>> corruption
>> and walking the fine line of what's right, what's wrong, and what just 
>> is.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Trial by Franz Kafka  (1925)
>>
>> Kafka asked that all of his work be burned after his death, and to be
>> honest, I think I can see why. I know this is a critically acclaimed 
>> novel,
>> it's been made into a movie 3 times, but I found it strange, not very
>> interesting, and except for it being a bizarre statement about Prague's
>> judicial system in the early 20th century, I don't much get the point.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard Russo
>>
>> This is a fantastic series, and I thoroughly enjoyed each of the 20 or so
>> stories in this anthology. For the Choice Magazine readers out there, 3
>> stories in this anthology will be familiar.
>>
>>
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