Thank you for replying. You brought teats to my eyes as I read your reply -- I don't know why. I shall be reading more of your entries that I'd been missing over this week. i was moved by the more explicitly personal or autobiographical content of your entry this time. The course I'm about to teach should be called Women In and Writing Detective Fiction (the people at the Oscher Institute of Lifelong Learning at Mason where I teach changed it to something more boilerplate), and I'm starting by covering the famous 1930s women: that's why Sayers is my late evening entertainment just now ...
You introduced me to Jansson. I’m quite intrigued by her life and work as you present it. Your emphasis on the role a person must play in finding/having meaningful life and meaningful work is spot on. It is in part a way of seeing and being in the world, right?
I've only started to read the excerpts from your journal towards your book. Tonight I read this one and if I can remember will read the others every few nights. I have my own work to do and at night I am often tired and re-watch old serials that delight me. Right now it's Dorothy Sayers' Clouds of Witness as I look forward to a course I'm going to teach this coming January into February (4 weeks, 4 sessions, 1 session per week) . Since I am feeling we are friends now, though we have not yet met on a zoom, I will tell you a very sad event happened in my life this week: one of my cats, my beloved Clarycat died. I wrote a few blogs about her in order to keep myself calm and express what I was feeling. Here is just her obituary: https://austenreveries.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/clarycat-has-died-2009-2023/
I have read about Kay Boyle but nothing by her. This is the first time I heard of Tove Jansson. I liked that illustration of herself and her invented characters for children.
Enjoyed this so much, thanks! I wrote about some of her short stories here on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/notesfromlinnesby/p/three-short-stories-by-tove-jansson?r=2u2cxe&utm_medium=ios
I love this, Anne! Didn't know anything about Tove Jansson before. So interesting.
No. It's fine. I like the mix. Today I'm going to find an essay in my house on Kay Boyle :)
Thank you for replying. You brought teats to my eyes as I read your reply -- I don't know why. I shall be reading more of your entries that I'd been missing over this week. i was moved by the more explicitly personal or autobiographical content of your entry this time. The course I'm about to teach should be called Women In and Writing Detective Fiction (the people at the Oscher Institute of Lifelong Learning at Mason where I teach changed it to something more boilerplate), and I'm starting by covering the famous 1930s women: that's why Sayers is my late evening entertainment just now ...
You introduced me to Jansson. I’m quite intrigued by her life and work as you present it. Your emphasis on the role a person must play in finding/having meaningful life and meaningful work is spot on. It is in part a way of seeing and being in the world, right?
I've only started to read the excerpts from your journal towards your book. Tonight I read this one and if I can remember will read the others every few nights. I have my own work to do and at night I am often tired and re-watch old serials that delight me. Right now it's Dorothy Sayers' Clouds of Witness as I look forward to a course I'm going to teach this coming January into February (4 weeks, 4 sessions, 1 session per week) . Since I am feeling we are friends now, though we have not yet met on a zoom, I will tell you a very sad event happened in my life this week: one of my cats, my beloved Clarycat died. I wrote a few blogs about her in order to keep myself calm and express what I was feeling. Here is just her obituary: https://austenreveries.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/clarycat-has-died-2009-2023/
I have read about Kay Boyle but nothing by her. This is the first time I heard of Tove Jansson. I liked that illustration of herself and her invented characters for children.
Ellen