hsmall
Female 67 from USA
Interested in inspirational
Posts and Reviews:
My Antonia - Land - posted last year
My reflectins are more like a journal too. I hadn't read any other posts, or ever done this kind of thing before so just wrote what came to the top of my mind.Like you, I am thunderstruck by the effective description. I was there in the old west.
As for reading in short posts being choppy, maybe so, but this is a new way of reading for me so I don't know what I think. I do think that maybe I'm getting more reading done than if I were trying to make time to sit down for a long while with a book.
Enough for now
My Antonia - My Antonia - just starting - posted last year
the trip across the country ... her descriptions put me right there in the train, getting off the train onto a wooden platform totally dark with only lanterns to break the darkness, the ride in a wagon on top of straw that got pressed down real soon so that his ride became bumpy. I feel grateful to Willa Cather for those descriptions because it is a world totally different from today, yet it feels familiar because of her.We've seen Antonia and the rest of her immigrant family on the train and again in the wagon ahead of their's. The whole experience is so utterly different from his (Jim's) experience that there's no room for fear. He can't believe his parents are watching him from the "dome of heaven" sky, he thinks he just left them off back where he used to live.
He's had to grow up real soon.
My Antonia - My Antonia - just starting - posted last year
I've only read two installments but my does it ever leave you hanging! It's like the old seriels that used to be prevalent.It's probably a good thing that the installment is short because I don't have the time for more. It's teaching me something ... that a perfectly acceptable way of reading a book is in many short installments.
I can feel that train ride, the heat the dryness. I can feel that lawyer friend, the depth in him when he recalls Antonia. I can feel Antonia coming and am looking forward to knowing her. I love the way he says he can only tell the story from his experience, or from recalling his response to her and the author's answer that that is the best way to tell the story.
This going to be a good read, only one short installment at a time.