Comments on: Reading Pretty Birds http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/30/reading-pretty-birds/ If you find yourself here, hello. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: mindspin http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/30/reading-pretty-birds/#comment-7 Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:27:24 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/30/reading-pretty-birds/#comment-7 Thanks for reading! I enjoy writing for the sake of writing, really do, but it's lots more fun if there's conversation. I appreciated your writing about listening to Scott Simon (look forward to whatever you write about workshops, readings, and so forth). I hope you will write about your responses to books, too. (I thought about that enterprise when I started, and it seemed to me that there are enough capable book reviews floating around. I figured I'd just follow a thread of thought that interested me.) In some round-about way, maybe there'll be a payoff with your writing. I know that hashing out a response to a book or even part of one makes me think more deeply about writing as well as about my responses as a reader. I look more closely. Glad you like the Hipster PDA. It's delightfully simple and workable, and I get a kick out of all the fuss that's made over different ways of personalizing and perfecting it. Since I play a batch of different roles at work, it's already proving essential. Thanks for reading! I enjoy writing for the sake of writing, really do, but it’s lots more fun if there’s conversation. I appreciated your writing about listening to Scott Simon (look forward to whatever you write about workshops, readings, and so forth). I hope you will write about your responses to books, too. (I thought about that enterprise when I started, and it seemed to me that there are enough capable book reviews floating around. I figured I’d just follow a thread of thought that interested me.) In some round-about way, maybe there’ll be a payoff with your writing. I know that hashing out a response to a book or even part of one makes me think more deeply about writing as well as about my responses as a reader. I look more closely.

Glad you like the Hipster PDA. It’s delightfully simple and workable, and I get a kick out of all the fuss that’s made over different ways of personalizing and perfecting it. Since I play a batch of different roles at work, it’s already proving essential.

]]> by: Jennifer http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/30/reading-pretty-birds/#comment-6 Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:50:46 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/30/reading-pretty-birds/#comment-6 Thanks for sharing the hipster PDA. I'm investing in one immediately! On a more serious note, thank you for your thoughtful discussion about Pretty Birds. I wish that I felt confident enough to write about the novels I read. Writing about listening to Scott Simon speak (or any other author for that matter) is not a problem. Writing about my reactions to a story is an entirely different issue. I get so much enjoyment out of reading, but I suspect I'm not being terribly analytical as I read. But perhaps, I should take your lead above and write about what hits me emotionally. P.S. I loved Life of Pi. Thanks for sharing the hipster PDA. I’m investing in one immediately!

On a more serious note, thank you for your thoughtful discussion about Pretty Birds. I wish that I felt confident enough to write about the novels I read. Writing about listening to Scott Simon speak (or any other author for that matter) is not a problem. Writing about my reactions to a story is an entirely different issue. I get so much enjoyment out of reading, but I suspect I’m not being terribly analytical as I read. But perhaps, I should take your lead above and write about what hits me emotionally.

P.S. I loved Life of Pi.

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