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    • Archive for October 5th, 2008

    Sunday, October 5th, 2008

    Sunday Salon - October 5, 2008

    October 5, 2008

    9:00AM

    Northern California has been blasted by cold air and drenching rain the last 48 hours - and I am loving it! After a summer of triple digit temperatures and smoky skies, the arrival of rain is a huge relief. I built a fire in the woodstove last night, much to the cats’ delight, and curled up beneath a blanket to read. Looks like I am not the only one enjoying the change in seasons - Jill is happy about it too!

    Yesterday I went to the Redding Library book sale and came home with the following books:

    Hardcovers ($0.50 per book)

    Trade Paperback ($0.25 per book)

    Since last week, I’ve finished reading The Triumph of Deborah (read my review) which was a mix of romance and biblical fiction. It has gotten a lot of great reviews, but wasn’t really the type of book I normally enjoy. But, I was glad to have read it, and I did learn a lot about that time in history.

    I also blew through Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida (read my review) and loved it. It is set in the stark winter environment of Finland (Lapland) and tells the story of a young woman who is searching for her identity. Vida’s writing is wonderful and spare.

    My current read is Rose Tremain’s Music and Silence for which she won the 1999 Costa Award. I cannot believe it has taken me so long to discover this amazing writer. You might remember I read The Colour in August and loved it. Music and Silence is a much different novel - set in the 1630s in Denmark and centering around King Christian IV and his spirited wife Kirsten. The novel is told from several viewpoints. Tremain’s use of language is just stunning - and I am thoroughly enjoying the book having reached approximately the half way point.

    Are any of you looking forward to the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature? I’m curious, and today I read this interesting article about how Horace Engdahl the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy (the organization that awards the prize) feels about American writers. He made the bold statement that Europe is really the ‘center of the literary world‘ and American writers are ‘too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture‘ among other things. So what do you think? Are American writers too insular? Are European writers more in touch with the literary world? Any thoughts on who will be awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?

    I’ve bought tickets and booked a hotel room for the Book Group Expo in San Jose at the end of the month. It was a bit of a splurge, but I could not resist! The list of authors is impressive and the literary salons look interesting. I’ve convinced Kip to go with me (although he may opt to go antiquing part of the time!). Have any of you gone to events like this before?

    So that’s all for literary thoughts this Sunday. I hope you are curled up with a good book and enjoying the fall weather. Have a great week ahead!