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Recent content by LS Collison

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    Ivan Turgenev

    I really enjoyed "First Love," a supposedly autobiographical, coming-of-age piece. I really enjoy such intensely personal novels, when written with the exquisite economy Turgenev employs. Linda Collison/Star-Crossed (Alfred A. Knopf)
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    Hello all!

    Which is your favorite Stephen King book?
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    Hi

    So what do you like to read, Sausha?
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    Hi Everybody

    Any particular century?
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    Favorite Female Writers

    Favorite female authors Catherine Ann Porter (especially Ship of Fools) Anne Tyler Ann Rand Anne Proulyx Margaret Atwood Jane Austin Emily Bronte To name a few...
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    Favorite Female Writers

    I recently finished Midaq Alley, and enjoyed it, though it was "lighter" than I expected. Like you, I admire "Wuthering Heights", and while I didn't like the "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" as well as you, I loved "The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers, which is more of a coming-of-age...
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    War Fiction

    A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne A good war memoir that reads like fiction is Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne by Donald R. Burgett, who was a paratrooper in World War II. A sport skydiver for many years, I am compelled to read the accounts of paratroopers under fire. Linda...
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    Good chick lit.

    Star-Crossed isn't classified as chick lit, but maybe if there were such a category as historical adventure chick lit... Linda Collison, author
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    Terry Brooks

    I have heard Terry Brooks speak on numerous occasions at the Maui Writers Conference. If you are a writer or an aspiring writer, he has great advice. The one time I met him he was very gracious. Sometimes attitude is a mirror... Linda Collison, author of Star-Crossed (Alfred A. Knopf;2006)
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    Do you like to write with background noise, or in complete silence?

    For this historical series I'm working on I play music of the 18th century, or sea chanteys. Linda Collison, author of Star-Crossed (Alfred A. Knopf; 2006)
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    First-person writing vs. third-person

    I wrote my first novel Star-Crossed (Alfred A. Knopf; 2006) in first person because of the immediacy it lends. My protagonist is a teenager, and I wanted a more self-absorbed point-of-view. I also liked the challenge of writing in first person because of the limited p.o.v. I'm now writing...
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    vonnegut

    When I was reading Vonnegut... Besides Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five, I enjoyed his first novel Player Piano, and Hocus Pocus. Linda Collison/Star-Crossed
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    Mark Twain

    The Trouble Begins at Eight... For you Mark Twain savants, Sid Fleishman is coming out with a new biography this spring. (I was just at the SCBWI writers conference in Honolulu where he spoke.) And if you're a fan I'm sure you've seen the PBS video directed by Ken Burns entitled Mark Twain...
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain is one of my favorite writers too. Besides Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer I liked Innocents Abroad. And since I currently live in Hawaii, I love his Letters from Hawaii. Humorous writing is the most difficult because you have to have a good wit, and be a good writer. Twain is...
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    Greetings from literarycompass

    I have been trying to catch up on all the classics of literature, AND keep up with new literary and popular fiction, AND research for my own historical novels -- and am always behind. Do you feel that way too, I wonder? Especially with Don Quixote not being exactly a quick read... Your tastes...
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