Thanks, Cindy. Sue wrote to me, and will proof it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:21 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Seeking proofreader for Gail Godwin Shannon, I have 5 already in my pile, but if no one else offers to proof the book, I'd be happy to do it . I could move it before some of the longer, more complicated nonficti.but it will still take quite a while before I can get to it. Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Sat, 1/30/10, solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Seeking proofreader for Gail Godwin > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 10:33 AM > > > > > > > > I have A Southern Family > by Gail Godwin here to > scan. It's a big book, approximately 540 pages, but > appears to be straight text. > So, it should scan well. > > I'm including a > synopsis below. If anyone is > interested in proofing, please contact: > solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx > > Here's the > synopsis: > > ``All families have themselves > problems,'' says Snow Mullins, one of > the marvelously defined characters in this rich, rewarding > novel, surely > Godwin's best to date. Snow herself is one of the Quick > family's problems: Theo > Quick has married the uneducated (but shrewd) hillbilly > woman to the chagrin of > his upper-middle-class parents and siblings. Ralph and Lily > Quick are not role > models: their marriage has been deteriorating for many > years, and their house on > Quick's Hill in Mountain City, S.C., mirrors both their > aspiring gentility and > general decline. When Theo, separated from Snow, shoots > another woman who > apparently has rejected him, the shocking and never fully > explained event is a > catalyst for many changes and insights in the > survivors' lives. Both Clare > Quick, Lily's daughter by a first marriage, and Rafe, > the younger brother, are > plagued with guilt over their failures to heed Theo's > desperation. Throughout > the leisurely narrative, Godwin examines the traditional > concept of family, and > speculates on filial duty versus the need to live an > independent life; she > comments on Southerners as a particular breed, on the > solace of Catholicism, and > on the essential inscrutability of human relationships. > Because Clare is a > successful author who muses about her craft, one is very > conscious of a writer's > sensibility here. ``The kind of fiction I was trying to > write,'' Clare says, is > deep breathing, reflective and with . . . a patience for > detail.'' She also > refers to the quality of ``compassionate > understanding.'' Those words describe > this wise, humane, immensely appealing novel very > well. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.