Do you do this? Read passages out loud to whomever is in the room? Or to yourself? Have you laughed out loud, snorted or merely grinned as you read a book in public?
here's me:
HAHAHAHAHA, I say holding up the book, reciting a bit of Harlen Coben dialogue, or a snippet of a Tom Franklin story- anything from George Singleton, ALL of McSweeney's lists.
And when I found Chelsey Minnis', BAD BAD
I couldn't stop finding someone to share it with.
Hey, listen to this:
".... You look good, You feel good, But you're bad bad. You're a swan, so carnelian to be with you...........so vexing and vicious with ....quirts of leather ....and rock-roses.... BAD BAD... like a scorch...... it is curacao to be with you and ....omnivore to be in love..... with your crimson ....and your rogue..... It is blackjacks..... and being stabbed with a butcher knife...... it is showerhead to be with you........ you are a terrible burden like a cello..........."
( I am doing a terrible disservice to not put all the ellipses- ish dot spacing that she does- as the pauses make you wonder and think and imagine and halt on the word choices... but you get the picture, and they do go on for 2 pages- and no, that's not the end of the poem. )
We- my husband and I- must have said the cello line about four times each- which led to me telling a story about a girl on a plane in CA once who I met when she bought a seat for her cello. I had never told him that story, and he thinks he's heard all of my stories twice.
He has no idea.
I like when reading other people's words inspires my own. I have a writer friend who says even reading the bad stuff can be good for you- it makes you feel better, smarter, as if there really is a spot on a bookrack waiting for you.
2 comments:
I love that about literature - where reading it makes you want to write- or better, makes you have to write.
I read things out loud all the time. Some lines just beg to be read out loud!
Heidi
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