[lit-ideas] Re: how to tell she wrote it
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:14:13 +0000 (GMT)
Her books are fun, and I love the settings. I haven't read Murder at Aqua
Alta, but when my local library re-opens (it and the community hall have been
closed for 18 months, for much-needed rebuilding) I'll hunt it down.
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
--- On Tue, 7/4/09, Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] how to tell she wrote it
> To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, 7 April, 2009, 4:46 PM
> It is common to point out texts that were obviously written
> by a men. It works both ways.
>
> Donna Leon, Blood from a Stone, reading a translation so
> reverse-translated and with apologies to both Donna Leon and
> list members: "From time time black men said
> something to each other, talked this and that, the stuff men
> at work talk to kill time: how someone hadn't slept
> well, that it was freezing, how someone hoped his son would
> pass entrance exams, of how much they missed their
> wives."
>
> Having spent most of my adult life on boring jobs while
> chatting with other men on topics ranging from ice hockey to
> Tractatus, computers to growing potatoes, I can testify that
> the subject of wives is rarely discussed, and never have I
> heard about how much they are missed. On the other hand, to
> answer the question on what I am reading, I could very well
> reply that on a lazy Sunday afternoon my wife handed me
> Murder at Aqua Alta, and might as well given an apple to go
> along with it. I still don't know if actually like
> the book, but I am addicted.
>
>
>
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