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“If not quite a platform, a play is certainly a plinth, a small eminence from which to address the world, hold forth about one’s concerns or the concerns of one’s characters. But not to preach. Writing a play I have never tried to hide the sound of my own voice. It hasn’t always been where an audience or a critic has thought to find it, and certainly not always in the mouth of the leading character. It’s often a divided voice or a dissenting one; two things (at lest) are being said and I am not always sure which one I agree with. But that is one reason I write plays: one can speak with a divided voice.” –Alan Bennett, excerpt from 2 October 2018 Diary entry, LRB 3 January 2019
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Tag Archives: Lois Lowry
Ignoring that panicky feeling
Normally this time of year, I’d be stuffing my freezer with nourishing soups to get me through the first week or so of NaNoWriMo. But October has been busier than usual, and this weekend I’m attending my first USBBY conference. That’s the International … Continue reading
Posted in IBBY, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cece Bell, Gene Luen Yang, Kate DiCamillo, Lois Lowry, Susan Cooper
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The enchanted world
Another category for the 2015 Reading Challenge is *a book set in the future*, for which I chose a book that has long been sitting on my shelf: Sylvia Louise Engdahl’s Enchantress from the Stars (1970), a Newbery Honor Book. My … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 Reading Challenge, Adventure, Dystopia, Science fiction, Utopia
Tagged Lois Lowry, Sylvia Louise Engdahl
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Another double Newbery winner
I posted this on my other blog, after hearing Lois Lowry at a reading from her 4th novel in The Giver series. This was part of my annual salute to banned/challenged books; The Giver is high on that list. Lowry won … Continue reading
