thesummerbeforethesummeroflovestoriesbyMarlySwick2017
Introduction/Definition/etc
Skipping the usual CamelCase for what the book title is,
a library book sale $0.10 paperback, which I thought would
be more hippie, but some, and fiction, but not bad,
not for young children, unless redacted parts,
as about R Rating, if books had them, adult
themes various places...
Body
Book Contents
Moscow Nights
The Shadow of the Cross
The Other Widow
Sleeping Dogs
The Summer Before the Summer of Love
The Ghost Mother
The Garage Sale of the Three Lindas
The Prodigal Father
The Still Point
Crete
Inline Additions?
Tempting to add something about each short
to keep it all together and be able to backtrack to
the book, for more detail, which usually isn't
the problem with me, the whole gestalt of it,
and making the connections between,
for the reader, sometimes helps,
connective tissue, in other words...
Interleaving Stuff
While the characters and stories are distinct,
they could be patchworked together,
thinking some relate somehow to others,
as I read it in a day, and mish mashed some
together, not really stopping to analyze it
all that much...
If the young couple with the guy having brain
damage, going to jail, etc, and the beekeeper,
and the moms, dads, and kids, of various,
fearfully losing kids, standing vigil at the site,
and wondering if the narrator was the one,
and infidelity, and lots of bad feelings,
only a few good ones, so mentioning love
in the title, and it's not all mushy sentimentality,
but not without it, like some serious therapy,
and other issues are raised, but not the point of it,
the understanding of the situation makes me
wonder how much of it the author has
experienced personally...
And on to the ending, and the desires,
missing and real, of what happens, a cliff
hanger and left wanting more, as some
would say, instead of droning on and on,
like a lot of this, not well thought out writing,
stream of consciousness, but the bad LSD
trip, comparing to schizophrenia rule out,
manic depressive, now called bipolar in
JustLikeSomoneWithoutMentalIllnessOnlyMoreSoByMarkVonnegutMD
and some other stuff, when he was having
problems, at my worst, not even reading
really, could not concentrate, and the
meds may have caused some of that,
while you can't perseverate (sp?) on something
if you can't remember what that thing is,
short term memory problems remain,
name recall, etc, but this is not really
about me, just some of the altered states,
or whatever it's called, where you are
in their shoes, and they really aren't
planted well on the ground...
Book Data
the summer before the summer of love
stories by Marly Swick
author of Paper Wings
First HarperPerennial edition published 1996
hardcover CopyRight 1995
ISBN 0-06-017254-1 (hb)
ISBN 0-06-092730-5 (pbk.)
USA $12.00
209 pages
Library book sale discounted to $0.10
and no, I'm not planning on selling it...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
More trashy in the sex department
than I might have expected,
so not really for younger readers,
but much of what is up here,
is for more mature than that...
Nothing very explicit, and
graphic language, but
be forewarned, appropriate use,
etc...
Some rather intense subjects,
a lot of death, in various forms,
abortion, dead child of parents
and another with variation(s),
bloody murdering family,
dog hit by car, and more,
but not a horror type thing,
maybe a dark type goth,
or film noir without the film
nor the same time period(s)?
Somewhat disturbing, but not
gratuitiously (sp?), it kept me
reading, and some turns of phrases,
somewhere mentioned a phrase book
one of the early mom poet characters
was writing, and others were
writers, realtors, moms, dads and
kids, of various ages, not a
lot of teenagers, but not none...
The language is interesting,
the characters are well developed,
and fiction isn't usually my thing.
I was wondering, much of the time,
how she comes up with this stuff...
Voice of the short stories are in female,
sometimes, male others, and steps out
of self in others, like a bad LSD trip,
after doing some pot, with a guy
who's home burned down,
and visits his daughter's group house,
where his dog is staying, in the meantime.
while he is in a bland apartment box,
of sorts, maybe even a hotel,
eats there while she is out, the roommates
are cool with it, he goes over and
brought wine, because he can't find
a corkscrew, (one Zen? guy just drinks from it...)
Making lists of all the stuff he lost in
the old home, dreams of rebuilding with
Feng Shui (sp?)... But I digress into details,
not conclusions...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What limits of reading material/ contents,
for what ages?
Does it matter if it's in picture form,
or merely writing?
Would the vocabulary lure kids to
inappropriate content, or
like Trojan Mouse gaming,
just learn that way...
Do you have to take from real people
and munge them into characters?
Is that a way to create fiction and
a story line?
Or a good way of getting sued,
for using real people, and
writing about them?
Many published works have
something like "resemblances
to people, living or dead are coincidental"
legalese to break the reality in fiction...
"Willful suspension of disbelief"
is a part of theatre, and the audience
must start from that, and see reality
in the way the production sees fit to
present it, and then compare sometime
after, if they wish...
Comedy may be the warped version of
that, where laughter is the release of
energy, when it hits home...
License
Creative Commons Share and Share Alike,
Non Commercial, Non Derivative, for the
whole site's contents unless otherwise
explicitly stated
Page History
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20170227 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to keep
- some data on a book read, quickly...
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