Comments on: Snowfall http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/01/24/snowfall/ dawn friedman's blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Kelly http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/01/24/snowfall/#comment-9995 Kelly Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:32:08 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=983#comment-9995 I experience reading in a very similar way. I remember my college women's lit classes being these incredible discussions of style and form and structure and theme and the layers of information within the story. I loved it and I thrived in that hyper-thinking mode. I can just barely get by now. I love reading a review of a book and being reminded that there's more to it than just a great story. I also hate it because it reminds me that I've dumbed myself down so much in the last 15 years...about this stuff anyway. I've gotten a lot smarter about regular life things, that maybe have been more important to me anyway. Good luck as you find your way into this book, and you will! Just keep going. You are a gifted and strong writer and that's got to be at least half the battle. I experience reading in a very similar way. I remember my college women’s lit classes being these incredible discussions of style and form and structure and theme and the layers of information within the story. I loved it and I thrived in that hyper-thinking mode. I can just barely get by now. I love reading a review of a book and being reminded that there’s more to it than just a great story. I also hate it because it reminds me that I’ve dumbed myself down so much in the last 15 years…about this stuff anyway. I’ve gotten a lot smarter about regular life things, that maybe have been more important to me anyway.

Good luck as you find your way into this book, and you will! Just keep going. You are a gifted and strong writer and that’s got to be at least half the battle.

]]> By: Meagan http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/01/24/snowfall/#comment-9994 Meagan Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:19:29 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=983#comment-9994 Dawn, I'm the exact same way WRT to reading. Symbolism, theme, etc are all utterly lost on me when I read a good book--all I see is the story. I actually find my lit classes to be 1/2 enriching and 1/2 frustrating because it's really hard for me to slow down enough to notice that stuff and most of the time, to be brutally honest, I don't care anyway. A good story is a good story is a good story, no? Dawn, I’m the exact same way WRT to reading. Symbolism, theme, etc are all utterly lost on me when I read a good book–all I see is the story. I actually find my lit classes to be 1/2 enriching and 1/2 frustrating because it’s really hard for me to slow down enough to notice that stuff and most of the time, to be brutally honest, I don’t care anyway. A good story is a good story is a good story, no?

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