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Wow...today's been a total relaxing day (compared to yesterday where I'd say I focused 99% non-stop cramming accting into my poor little puny brain...resulting in the highest rate of brain cell killing I've had this yr.....sigh* this is exactly wen I wish my brain is not so puny as it is lol~ But I'm so glad there's only one exam left now - Monday. I shall again start cramming tomorrow!) That's why today is the way it is :DCame home, took relaxing shower, dinner, tv, comic to the n-th power + msn, and soon to relax w/ some facial care + a warm cup of tea + comfy warm comforter + the book i'm almost done:D
So talking about the book:
As I have set up in my goals sometime earlier (last month? --> I can't remember haha~), I decided to pick up reading.....I bought myself "Girl w/ a Pearl Earring" (Tracy Chevalier) last week..in fact Aug.2/06 at SFU bookstore...(b/c I experience the sudden goal to achieve my goals hehe:P, althu I admit it's a bad idea to start on novels wen finals are near ...o well ~)
And wow I'm almost done~
So in the beginning, I was simply attracted by the book cover (I knw...call me superficial haha)
As I begin the book...I was somewhat captured by the plot, thu I did find the writing a little plain and not wut I expected it to be --> filled w/ radiance , a "jewel of a novel"....
Haha~ here let me make this clear....I like fine things....fine writings in this case....my fav authors/poet are ppl like Jane Austen, Penelope Lively, Lord Byron....(so on so on) So I was a bit disappointed wen I didn't find Chevalier's writing to be beautiful~
But wen my excitement for the plot died down a little....I realized something about Chevalier's writing: they are like wine almost, the longer u keep (reading) the better!
I now particularly admires how she uses parallel imagery to describe the character's feelings. This particular image really comes alive to me:
"I slowed my pace. Year of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamberpots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before mee like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can naver be reached."
I am also very very fond how she uses puns and all other forms of play on words and sentences to describe the charcter's feelings (if only I could find where that perfect example went haha)
Her uses of short words and choppy sentences often create a silence in the novel where the message conveyed is understood and nothing more need to be said.......It is now this admiration which keep me attached to the novel so much! In fact I shall finish it tonite:D This shall be done haha~
posted by Lulu @ 11:40 PM
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