tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post588348996109568934..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Five Books of cancerD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-41618810866502403032014-01-29T09:00:23.423-05:002014-01-29T09:00:23.423-05:00David, I'd like to wish you the very best of l...David, I'd like to wish you the very best of luck with your memoir, <i>Life on Planet Cancer</i> (by the way, I like the title you've chosen). I recently completed my own memoir of a lifetime of illness, my own and that of members of my family; but the illness I cover is mental illness (depression, panic disorder, and compulsive over-helping), rather than cancer. Writing it was an act of therapy, but I believe the stories I have knitted together have literary merit. May you also find the writing of your personal illness memoir to be an act of self-therapy and self-healing.Andrew Foxhttp://www.fantasticalandrewfox.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-83075237383769878442014-01-28T14:16:00.841-05:002014-01-28T14:16:00.841-05:00Writer J. Lake's blog may be of interest:
htt...Writer J. Lake's blog may be of interest:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">http://www.jlake.com/blog/</a><br /><br />Best wishes indeed.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-28559805582392840952014-01-28T13:57:39.414-05:002014-01-28T13:57:39.414-05:00I hope you write this memoir; I look forward to co...I hope you write this memoir; I look forward to coming to a reading. <i>Five Books of Cancer</i> is a better title than <i>Life on Planet Cancer</i>, though.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-33890014227770315782014-01-28T08:37:39.954-05:002014-01-28T08:37:39.954-05:00I am only just learning this news about your illne...I am only just learning this news about your illness. I am saddened to hear it, but I hope you are giving it all the fight you've got. I have enjoyed your literary criticism over the years.<br /><br />Another candidate for inclusion here may be Christian Wiman's My Bright Abyss. He is writing in part about his faith, but that discussion is inextricable from his ruminations about living with cancer.<br /><br />The book is, I think, an honest and beautifully written book, laced with contemporary poetry throughout. But it may leave something to be desired for some believers, as this blogger rightly points out: http://noteandquery.com/2013/10/22/christian-wimans-abyss/<br /><br />You are in my prayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-62749227969277014322014-01-27T21:22:48.799-05:002014-01-27T21:22:48.799-05:00David, BTDS even better than the bio-pic of Lou Ge...David, BTDS even better than the bio-pic of Lou Gehrig with Gary Cooper? IMHO, the Gehrig film was the all time best. But maybe my age (68) has something to do with that opinion. No, I didn't see it on its first run, but it was the first baseball movie that really made an impression on me.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-4613458402086689382014-01-27T21:18:03.631-05:002014-01-27T21:18:03.631-05:00The film version of Bang the Drum Slowly, perhaps ...The film version of <i>Bang the Drum Slowly</i>, perhaps the best baseball movie of all time, had Robert DeNiro (in his first starring role) as Bruce Pearson.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-73721154048309637682014-01-27T20:46:34.606-05:002014-01-27T20:46:34.606-05:00And isn't the film version of Bang the Drum Sl...And isn't the film version of Bang the Drum Slowly a wonderful film? As I remember it, the acting was marvelous. And the characters proved the power of transcendence over circumstances.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-16618414474631803862014-01-27T19:31:38.031-05:002014-01-27T19:31:38.031-05:00Have your read Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir...Have your read <i>Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir</i> by Steward Alsop? I have not read it in 35 or 40 years, but recall it as very good.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com