Comments on: Lovers and Strangers Revisited by Robert Raymer

By: Robert Raymer

Robert Raymer — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:21:45 +0000

I was scratching my head over that, too, then I took a quick look at the table of contents and the last story, “Transactions in Thai” also has rain and loneliness.

By: Josette

Josette — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:19:00 +0000

@Robert Raymer: Yes I was in his class last semester and we studied this book. Our tutor also got us cracking our heads over the use of point of view and characterisation.

I wanted to choose to answer your book in my exam but the question required us to look at two stories which had both ‘loneliness’ and ‘rain’ in them. Unfortunately, I could only think of On Fridays and couldn’t quickly recall another story! Therefore I had to skip that question.

And thanks for the link! Yes, we’d be interested to check out ‘the story behind the story’.

By: Robert Raymer

Robert Raymer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:47:39 +0000

Hi, Josette. Are you in Dr. Rashidi’s class? He spoke at my book launch in Penang, and thanks to him, because he wanted to teach my original book, I rewrote all the stories for the LSR version.

Not sure if I told you that I did a series of blogs about my writing each of those stories and the significant changes I made that led to publication and then the revamp for the “revisited” version. Let others know. Getting the other side of the story, the story behind the story, might be interesting and useful, especially those of you and your friends who have an interest in writing. Can learn a lot from it, one of the reasons I wrote the series. Lately, I transferred them all from the original blog to this one here,so they would be easier to find: http://thestorybehindthestoryoflsr.blogspot.com/

All the best, Robert

By: Josette

Josette — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:21:04 +0000

@dodong flores: Yes, this is a mighty interesting book! In fact, I’m reading it again for my English class.

@Andrea: Yes, do add to your TBR! And thanks for letting me about your giveaway.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:55:09 +0000

Ooh I think I’ll add this to my TBR!

Also wanted to personally invite you to join in on my 50 followers giveaway :]

http://ireadd.blogspot.com/2009/10/very-girly-giveaway-50-followers.html

By: dodong flores

dodong flores — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:55:03 +0000

It’s a long review but shows how interesting the content of the book must be…

By: Josette

Josette — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:03:33 +0000

@Nishita: Can you recommend me some good short stories to read? Ooh, I’ve just read one short story titled ‘A Rose for Emily’ by William Faulkner. Pretty shocking ending it had! I like it!

Yeah! I was simply honoured that he’d taken the time to post a comment here. Truly, this book of his short stories is really good.