Comments on: Images – Cyndere’s Midnight 3

By: Rachel Starr Thomson » Sort of a Public Thing

Rachel Starr Thomson » Sort of a Public Thing — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:51:22 +0000

[...] I read Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight during my second CSFF blog tour (here’s one of my Cyndere posts) and am thoroughly hooked on the series, both for the story and for the sheer beauty of the [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:46:15 +0000

Heh, I can’t think of an image off the top of my head, now that I’m challenged! I made it a point to go through all of the “top blogger” nominees and leave comments. I must say everyone did a great job, including your comments here. I enjoyed what you had to share, and thought there was good insight into the imagery. I only wished you had finished Cyndere before the tour ended (not that I haven’t done that before).

Anyway, keep up the good work, and I’ll keep my eye out here from now on.

Jason

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:09:21 +0000

Images that linger…
From “The Lord of the Rings”:
When the Rohirrim arrive on Pelennor Fields
When Frodo sees the fallen statue of the king crowned again
When Sam carries Frodo up the mountain

From your book, “Taerith”:
When Taerith proposes to Mirian

From “That Hideous Strength”:
Ransom and Merlin’s first meeting

There seems to be an added richness to those passages that linger in the mind. You do more than see what is happening. You feel it too. I love it when I’m reading a book and come across such a passage.

By: Janice Campbell

Janice Campbell — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:33:48 +0000

Many good books leave images that over time have transformed into “almost-memories.” From George MacDonald’s Back of the North Wind, I’m soaring high, seeing the earth from a birds-eye view. From Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun, I bask in heat reflected from the centuries-old stones of the terrace, breathing the mingled scents of rosemary, lavender, and dust. From Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, I stand with Lily Bart in the kitchen of a poor woman, and feel the love and contentment that transcends the gritty poverty.

These images are so vivid, they are almost memories with all the accompanying sensory experiences. Oddly, it’s rarely the moment of climax in a book that leaves these lingering impressions–it’s just an odd moment that somehow ignites a personal spark.

Very interesting post, Rachel. Thank you!

By: Jeffrey Overstreet—CSFF Tour Day 1 « A Christian Worldview of Fiction

Jeffrey Overstreet—CSFF Tour Day 1 « A Christian Worldview of Fiction — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:30:57 +0000

[...] Steve Rice ? Crista Richey ? Alice M. Roelke ??? Chawna Schroeder ? James Somers ??? Rachel Starr Thomson ??? Robert Treskillard ?? Steve Trower ? Speculative Faith [...]

By: Rebecca LuElla Miller

Rebecca LuElla Miller — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Rachel, I enjoyed your thoughts on images. Interestingly, in his interview with Robert Treskillard earlier in the week, Jeffrey Overstreet said he starts his stories with an image.

What are some of my memorable ones? Scarlet O’Hara digging radishes out of the garden at Tara (maybe it wasn’t radishes, but that’s the image I have). Fiver burrowed into his small space in the warren, cowering from those who were bullying him (again, I may have details wrong, but that’s the image). Sam carrying Frodo up the path toward the fires of Mount Doom.

Yeah, there are some key images that make a book memorable.

Becky