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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Chocolat 

I have been reading Chocolat this week. It is a fantastic book. I loved the film but this is better.

Joanne Harris's command of the English language, her easy languid style, her descriptive, yet not florid, text make the novel so easy to read. I am captivated by it from the moment I take it out of my bag to when the train pulls in at Charing Cross or Orpington. She has a touch, a way of making characters come alive with only the briefest of descriptions.

I can't help making comparisons between this and my own writing. I shouldn't but I do and it is a little demoralising. How does she do it?

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