Vietnamese egg beer is a frothy, pale mug of intoxicating fresh sweetness! I have made it successfully at home. But it will never be as good as it was sitting there on a tiny stool next to a busy Hanoi street surrounded by smiling strangers sharing a beer milkshake.
Wandering Reader
Her Fearful Symmetry is for Halloween Travelers and Anglophiles
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger is a Creepy Halloween Read. It’s got everything your ghost story needs. Begins with an untimely death? Check! A spirit with unfinished business? Check! Young attractive girl living next to a cemetery? Check! Check! (There are two.) Creepy neighbors? Check! A mysterious motive? Check! A secret past? Check! Yep! it’s […]
Story Shoes that Walk the Talk
But there is another side of it too. The part where the reader and the writer interact. Sometimes over miles, years and even across the barrier of death itself. Story is not stagnant. It is dynamic and interactive with the minds and imaginations of readers. It is a wonderful thing, as a writer, to have your work translated into other languages. Maybe making something out of the print would be like translating the story into the a different, artistic, language. I asked myself how I, as an author, might feel if a book I wrote was cut apart by one of my readers and translated into a dress she could wear or a pair of shoes she could walk in. I meditated. I felt myself hand my precious story to reader. I saw her creatively inspired to wear my story. I saw her dance in story shoes made of my words. I smiled. I had my answer. I made my shoes and believe, somewhere, Dame Freya is smiling.