where all goes out to play...Veiled Sunset
Diposting oleh Unknown on Kamis, 24 Juli 2008
where all goes out to play...
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Ubud Writers and Readers Festival
Diposting oleh Unknown on Minggu, 20 Juli 2008
Picture this: green tiered rice fields. Intellectually stimulating literary conversation. You, sipping margarita while brushing shoulders with world reknown writers. Evening book launch under the stars and poetry reading with free-flow cocktails. Sounds like a book worm idea of heaven, isn’t it?You don’t have to actually breathe your last breath to experience all of that. Just help yourself and come to this year Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, which will take place from 14-19 October. Find yourself queuing for book sign by authors like Vikram Seth, John Berendt, Indra Sinha, Camilla Gibb and many others. And of course, you’ll meet this sapimalas over there. Book your flight and come to meet them (and me) in ‘one of the six best literary festivals in the world’ according to Harper’s Bazaar.
I can tell you for sure there will be a lot more going on than just literature. At least, if it is based from my previous experience.
I can tell you for sure there will be a lot more going on than just literature. At least, if it is based from my previous experience.
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Wish Upon A Star
Diposting oleh Unknown on Sabtu, 05 Juli 2008
Choose that if you will, but all novels are, in a sense, fairy tales. They are pulled from the air and create the magical illusion that are characters you read about are real, are living and the lives that are described have happened. The novelist imagines and conjures but, when the narration ends, has no more idea of what happens to the characters than you, the readers, does. Fiction is so often preferable to life because, sadly, only in fiction can you write the magical incantation at the end: ‘And the lived happily ever after.’ Taken from the last paragraph of Olivia Goldsmith’s last book before she passed away. Don’t you just miss Olivia Goldsmith? I can’t recall when was the last time I read such a good “chick-lit” novel. Her writing has existed even before the term was used to describe women fiction. I do love her strong heroine in “Wish Upon A Star” and it was really pleasant to read a book about self-actualization when the heroine doesn’t need a man to made her realize it.
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