tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post6927410072439117828..comments2024-03-22T07:29:41.391+00:00Comments on Jayne Ferst: Progress at last!Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-61610627160513895182008-11-25T18:51:00.000+00:002008-11-25T18:51:00.000+00:00Late answers like these are very welcome :)Thank y...Late answers like these are very welcome :)<BR/><BR/>Thank you for finding the web-link, I have just been reading 'The Religion' and I see what you mean - sentences like<BR/><BR/><I>A lovely female voice. An arm reaches out - we venture that it belongs to the same female (for the arm is lovely as well)</I><BR/><BR/>There is a really nice understated but teasing sense of humour through his writing.<BR/><BR/>Graham Oakley's Church Mice are an illustrated series of books for children (and ahem, young at heart adults!) - you can see his illustrations here, if this tiny link works!<BR/><BR/>http://tiny.cc/E5lI9<BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about children's books turning political when you grow up... it doesn't seem fair, at the time I just thought they were good stories...Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-67959577022123083352008-11-25T15:51:00.000+00:002008-11-25T15:51:00.000+00:00caution: this is a late answerok. i am not working...caution: this is a late answer<BR/><BR/>ok. i am not working for his pr staff but i am already pretty jealous since he published his first novel when he was younger than me(i am getting old though-i used to say 'when he was my age').though he laughs at his first novel. here is an english version of his site (ignore the photo :P)<BR/><BR/>http://cemakas2.brinkster.net/english.htm<BR/><BR/><BR/>and here is the translation of that first novel. he is not even famous in turkey (my impression: wants to be a long seller?)<BR/><BR/>http://cemakas2.brinkster.net/7.htm<BR/><BR/><BR/>but i was too young when i read this book and just lived another life instead of mine.(lifelessons101) so i think i should read the church mice series nowadays. you reminded me alice, lewis carroll makes fun of alice as well. or doesn't he? i am not sure about my favourite childhood books anymore. they all grew politic. what happened to momo?<BR/><BR/>(next time: dear diary: i am a long comment :))idil o. calverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865925529012908186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-32617639053022100512008-11-10T09:10:00.000+00:002008-11-10T09:10:00.000+00:00Haha - oh I do agree - it can be very funny, love ...Haha - oh I do agree - it can be very funny, love your example! It is great fun to play with language like that. There are also quite a few children's book authors who have lots of fun that way - I am thinking back to Graham Oakley's The Church Mice series, such a wonderful set of books, for story and illustrations. Which author do you mean? Whoever it is sounds worth reading!Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-49299717679989879252008-11-09T22:13:00.000+00:002008-11-09T22:13:00.000+00:00i know an author who has an incredible sense of hu...i know an author who has an incredible sense of humour though i don't know whether he does it on purpose or just finds his own mistakes and makes fun of himself while editing. after such a sentence he would add in brackets:<BR/><BR/>She tried to close her eyes again...(Since it was always her common challange to close them back as they were stuck open with super-glue or stitched to her eyebrows.)<BR/><BR/>You or he would probably do it perfect. But i think i gave the idea :P<BR/><BR/>And i just want to try to translate one of the original ones:<BR/><BR/>"he walked towards the gate along the silent looks of the people (since the noisy ones have not been invented yet)"<BR/><BR/>or maybe i can just laugh so easily :)idil o. calverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865925529012908186noreply@blogger.com