She Treads Softly

~ reading and reviewing one book at a time since 2007

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

A family picture

Posted by Lori L at 9:09 PM

3 comments:

Memories of yesterday said...: *gi-gle*; May 24, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Jane said...: I LOVE this picture!; May 24, 2007 at 2:00 PM
just me said...: Wow.; May 25, 2007 at 6:29 PM

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1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

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5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.

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Orson Scott Card, in introduction to Ender's Game, pg. xxv

He Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeats