From: Marge Loch-Wouters <lochwout>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 06:17:50 -0500

An author can see only part of the picture. The way each reader
'reinvents' the text is miraculous, if you ask me, making the book far richer than the author could imagine in his little room."

I think Sharon's comment (above) on each reader's perception &
"reinvention" of a text is excellent & really speaks to me in light of the discussion going on about time; names and naming; and moons within WTM.

Each reader does bring her personal self into every book read and "sees" or doesn't "see" in her unique way. What one reader may appreciate (perhaps a lack of contemporary pop culture touchstones or icons; perhaps the unique names) may stop another reader cold. That's what makes book discussions so much fun and so darn interesting. Each person who has read the book brings her or his own unique raves, slams, puzzlements and perceptions to the table (electronic, in this instance) and enriches the interpretations and insights of everyone into the book.

Walk Two Moons has a richness - in characters, language, plot, names - that makes both the reading and the discussions ones that have offered me tremendous pleasure and insight. And, best of all, points in this particular month of discussion have brought me back to yet another pleasurable reading of the book and opened my eyes to the way that time flows, names are called and moons wax and wane in and on the pages.

Marge Loch-Wouters Menasha's Public Library, WI lochwout at athenet.net
Received on Mon 31 Jul 1995 06:17:50 AM CDT