tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post111776088570187027..comments2023-06-27T08:52:55.566-06:00Comments on The Marvelous A: Book MemeAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17905923258826602899noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1118010428251465452005-06-05T16:27:00.000-06:002005-06-05T16:27:00.000-06:00Excellent, Shepcat, on all counts. Sri Lankan make...Excellent, Shepcat, on all counts. Sri Lankan makes a ton of sense; Mom and I were trying to think he was Dutch with a name like that. Talk about reason to be offended.<BR/><BR/>I hope I'm not selling Ms. Proulx short; I try not to be the kind of person who gets offended about anything, and after all, the key word here is fiction. But there was something about it that just rubbed me wrong, especially when she tells interviewers she scours the countryside for believable characters. Those are NOT my family, friends and neighbors.<BR/><BR/>You'll have to share your opinion when you get 'er read and see if she did any better setting it somewhere else. Thanks for being potential backup, and thanks for the fun meme.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905923258826602899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1117918087150006792005-06-04T14:48:00.000-06:002005-06-04T14:48:00.000-06:00You didn't disappoint at all, A, and when I read y...You didn't disappoint at all, A, and when I read your allusion to Herodotus early in the post, I just <I>knew</I> that <I>The English Patient</I> would be one of the books you named in #4. (Ondaatje is another one of those damn foreigners — he's Sri Lankan — whose command of English I envy. A poet who writes novels. He absolutely <I>kills</I> me.)<BR/><BR/>Also, I've got a copy of Annie Proulx's <I>Accordion Crimes</I> in my library that I've never gotten around to reading. I'll try to work it into my queue sometime soon to confirm whether I need to come up there and help you boot her ass out of Wyoming.Shepcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435989618782168347noreply@blogger.com