1st Person Vs. 3rd Person
So the battle of perspectives has begun. I spent most of the summer obsessing over my Work-in-Progress (a novel): What will my main character be like, What order will things happen in, researching life in Ireland in th 1850’s, deciding that was too boring, changing it to Ireland in the 1950s… Stuff like that plus […]
Holocaust Narratives
So without consciously intending to, I’ve read several books about the holocaust recently. I read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and MAUS by Art Spiegelmann. All turned out to be great books and all turned out to be about the holocaust but they told their stories in very different ways. […]