Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
By the 'Bet Tag
I was tagged by Lacey at Turn the Page:
youtube.com/watch?v=9PS6EVzMD-4&t=47s
Original Tag: Stripped Cover Lit
youtube.com/watch?v=n0N56TL1lLY&list=PL7VZYQNe84uIvUFNm0dURIxC0uM7HGv-y
The premise of this tag is to talk about your channel using the letters of the alphabet as prompts.
What happened to "G" ?
G is for GoodReads, of course.
Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz
Published by Unbridled Books, 2014
amazon.com/Seal-Woman-Solveig-Eggerz-ebook/dp/B00HL2S4LM/ref=sr_1_2
"This is an extraordinarily beautiful saga that links sure-footed portraits of wartime Berlin and the severity of life in the Icelandic countryside. Moving and genuinely affirming, Seal Woman is a many-colored portrayal of a strong woman’s life broken in two stark and unforgiving worlds separated by the North Atlantic."
Walter Ong's book, Orality and Literacy, was a revelation when I read it in grad school. I remember one of my professors describing him and Ong's theory as "out there," but his ideas fit into my crusade to understand literature through the lens of reader response theory. I took a graduate seminar called Digital Noesis, which was mainly about how Western culture slowly shifted from oral-based communication to a print-centric one. Ong should be read by anyone who wonders how a cultural practice of communication affects that culture at large. The breadth and depth of information is impressive, and his explanation of how oral culture was the holder of its own memory makes so much sense in terms of human behavior and interaction. He introduced to me the somatic component of oral recitation (like the choral poets who recited Homer); somatic movement incorporates body movements, a swaying that aids in memory recall. It is lyrical to think of an oral text (if you will pardon the oxymoron) so embodied within the speaker.
Other authors/books mentioned:
Jane Austen
Carol Shields/Alice Munro/Miram Toewes
EM Forster
AM Holmes
Early novels of John Irving
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
William Maxwell
VN
Ann Patchett
Leah Remini
Donna Tartt
Life After Life
Virginia Woolf
Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters
Testament of Youth, Alice Munro
Leni Zumas' Red Clocks
Tag: I tag YOU if you want.
By the 'Bet Tag
I was tagged by Lacey at Turn the Page:
youtube.com/watch?v=9PS6EVzMD-4&t=47s
Original Tag: Stripped Cover Lit
youtube.com/watch?v=n0N56TL1lLY&list=PL7VZYQNe84uIvUFNm0dURIxC0uM7HGv-y
The premise of this tag is to talk about your channel using the letters of the alphabet as prompts.
What happened to "G" ?
G is for GoodReads, of course.
Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz
Published by Unbridled Books, 2014
amazon.com/Seal-Woman-Solveig-Eggerz-ebook/dp/B00HL2S4LM/ref=sr_1_2
"This is an extraordinarily beautiful saga that links sure-footed portraits of wartime Berlin and the severity of life in the Icelandic countryside. Moving and genuinely affirming, Seal Woman is a many-colored portrayal of a strong woman’s life broken in two stark and unforgiving worlds separated by the North Atlantic."
Walter Ong's book, Orality and Literacy, was a revelation when I read it in grad school. I remember one of my professors describing him and Ong's theory as "out there," but his ideas fit into my crusade to understand literature through the lens of reader response theory. I took a graduate seminar called Digital Noesis, which was mainly about how Western culture slowly shifted from oral-based communication to a print-centric one. Ong should be read by anyone who wonders how a cultural practice of communication affects that culture at large. The breadth and depth of information is impressive, and his explanation of how oral culture was the holder of its own memory makes so much sense in terms of human behavior and interaction. He introduced to me the somatic component of oral recitation (like the choral poets who recited Homer); somatic movement incorporates body movements, a swaying that aids in memory recall. It is lyrical to think of an oral text (if you will pardon the oxymoron) so embodied within the speaker.
Other authors/books mentioned:
Jane Austen
Carol Shields/Alice Munro/Miram Toewes
EM Forster
AM Holmes
Early novels of John Irving
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
William Maxwell
VN
Ann Patchett
Leah Remini
Donna Tartt
Life After Life
Virginia Woolf
Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters
Testament of Youth, Alice Munro
Leni Zumas' Red Clocks
Tag: I tag YOU if you want.
