My Other Blog, "Moments in Literature", Recognized
My ambitious, but not very active blog, Moments in Literature , is one of the 45 blogs that have just won the 2010 Top Literary Studies Blog Award. I am excited. Although I would have wanted this one here to win something, I am excited about Moments in Literature. When I started the blog at the end of 2007, I wanted to highlight intriguing moments in the fiction I was reading. Let's say I was reading David Mungoshi's The Fading Sun , I would take a moment to discuss chapter 7, highlight why I thought it was intriguing, and that would then lead to a brief discussion of Mungoshi's place in literature, etc. Right now I am re-reading Charles Mungoshi's The Setting Sun and The Rolling World , his US-published collection of selected stories. Each story has moments worth sharing, the boy in "Shadows on the Wall" reflecting on how one day he discovered a dove's nest, examined the nestlings, went away thinking about mothers and their importance to children, only ...