By Stephanie Burt June 7 , 2016Catherynne Valente's five Fairyland fantasy novels are a vivid, rich entry in the Y.A. genre.
The photographs, often yellow with age, and the accompanying journal entries provide vivid testimony of lives pushed to the limit of endurance.
In her review for Performing Songwriter, Abby White said, "The book has an intimate, conversational tone, and Paul's childlike drawings, song lyrics and poetry provide commercial breaks to his personal journal entries and vivid recollections of significant events he encounters while touring".
My travel diary entry brought back vivid memories of the one main street lined with chalet-style architecture.
A beautiful bleached-wood grandfather clock stood against the kitchen wall, and a large painting of a vivid garden hung in the entry to the master bedroom.
One entry is especially vivid and telling: May not moral sense arise from our enlarged capacity acting, yet being obscurely guided or strong instinctive sexual, parental & social instincts, giving rise "do unto others as yourself".
And like Spolsky's post did for Gates, Yegge's Google+ entry paints a vivid image of Bezos, what he is like to work with, his management style, and how the CEO interacts with employees.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
The entry is like a vivid, compacted little essay, rich in hunches and associations.
He still has vivid memories of the critical re-entry phase.
