On May 26th we had a lively chat on twitter with author Thomas Trofmiuk about Waiting for Columbu s . It was wonderful to be able to ask questions about the characters and their possible paths and has the author answer them. It was very clear that they all continued to live outside the book. We begged for a Consuela sequel as she was a favorite of many of us readers. It was also great to learnt hat there is a Waiting for Columbus movie in the works. When I read the book I was struck by how cinematic it was and, like The English Patient , I thought it would lend itself to film. Following the discussion I indicated that there would be some Summer Reading Choice(s) for the next #yegbookclub. I don't know about you, but I am always hard to pin down for the summer. With holidays and day camps for the kids and, for this year, directing two Fringe Shows I thought we could have 2 selections to read over the summer and then in September we could take two evenings to chat about th
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So, I think I've talked to you before in general terms about blogging and why people do it and what reactions they're looking for. I follow this Personal Finance blog and there's this one post that I finally had to comment on.
Here is the link: http://wealthisgood.blogspot.com/2009/09/ignoring-tenants-feels-good.html
I'm Anonymous commenting as posts number 14 & 16 (on Oct 5).
I'm still puzzling out how I feel about this whole blogosphere and the interactions between strangers that occur as a result (I feel weirded out just by posting a comment, much less writing an actual blog entry) so I thought I'd send it to you so that we could chat about it sometime. (If I were a talented writer; complimented say, by a Noble Prize Winning author; I would write about my feelings. But I'm not).
:)