Welcome to the Globe Bookgroup blog! Here, members of the group can post messages about past and present books, and catch up with other members. The Globe Bookgroup meets around every 4-5 weeks on a Thursday night in The Globe pub, Baker Street. We get very excited about choosing and voting for our books. We don't do organised discussions or heavy hardbacks.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

What I am reading

I bought a biography of the poet Walt Whitman in the States and have started that. He was rather a special person and wrote some soaring stunningly energised verse. A romantic and a mystic

Also reading Highsmith's Strangers on a Train for my other bookgroup. Thinking of joining yet another one if it gets going at work. Strangers seems quite close to the famous Hitchcock movie which starred sinister Robert Walker and the delectable Farley Granger. I think her writing is pretty skilled - that sort of diamond hard prose - a la Hemmingway - how do they achieve this? Of course she doesnt have the Hemmingway view of things but I would love to write like that. Are people born to this?

posted by Julian at 11:20 am

1 Comments:

Blogger Ellie said...

Strangers on a Train is a great film.

3 bookgroups? That's just greedy!!

A good questions - are good writers born or made? I suspect only a few people are born with genius or great talent. Others ignite the spark within from their experiences and life education. Others work bloody hard, read a lot, do courses and succeed - but perhaps not to the extent that the first 2 categories do. Some people are just writers, it's what they must do, rather than what they want to do.

I've read a bit of Whitman, it can be quite inspiring (if sometimes overblown).

1:05 pm

 

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