Comments on: Reading reviews and reading tests

By: aurora_floyd

aurora_floyd — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:29:07 +0000

In reply to Thomas.

Yes, but you only have to get 4/5 to pass the test, and I took the test having not read those chapters for months and months.

I couldn't get the answers to my own test right if I hadn't read the chapters in question recently!!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:26:06 +0000

In reply to aurora_floyd.

Hrmm, maybe it is too hard... :-\

You failed two of the questions. If you check back at the results, you can see my correct answers.

By: aurora_floyd

aurora_floyd — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:17:40 +0000

In reply to Thomas.

I'll try the test now :-)

By: aurora_floyd

aurora_floyd — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:17:04 +0000

In reply to Thomas.

yes, it's true...

...writing a novel is the easy part - it's editing it that's difficult!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:14:42 +0000

In reply to aurora_floyd.

He has a website too: http:\\www.williamLspencer.com

I think I'm beginning to dread finishing my book and starting on the revising/redrafting of it about as much as I have been looking forward to it. Between the advice that you have given, and the reviews on YouWriteOn and WriteWords I'm going to have lots of criticism to think about and weigh up...

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:08:57 +0000

In reply to aurora_floyd.

Thanks for doing that for me. I don't think it's particularly hard is it...?

By: aurora_floyd

aurora_floyd — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:50:50 +0000

PS It’s a perceptive review, but after reading his profile I don’t think he and I would get along *at all*! – “I’ve always managed to make a living hunched up over a keyboard. I’ve written advertising, PR, corporate stuff (lots of it), and I’m currently about 85% through my first book. I’ve published fiction and non-fiction (fiction in a weekly newspaper and in a literary journal), and my fiction and non-fiction have both won numerous prizes. It got monotonous, so I stopped entering. I’m dissatisfied with many of today’s trends in literary fiction, and can’t stand those stories where nothing happens except people sit around expressing their unhappiness, having “feeeellllings” and worrying about other people’s “feeeellllings.” I’m not sympathetic to “chick lit” or to “romance horror,” and I find a lot of what is declaimed as earth-shaking contemporary literature to be pretty dull stuff, so I’m no doubt pathetically out of step with what passes for today’s trends.”

Ooookkkkkaaaaayyyy 🙂

By: aurora_floyd

aurora_floyd — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:39:27 +0000

Question #1
What relationship do the siblings Helen and Ben have to Hanna Katla?

They are cousins
Old university friends
No relation - Hanna is a tour guide

Question #2
When does Ben learn of sister's fate?

Hanna phones him in England
At the airport in Iceland
In a coffee shop off Reykjavik high street

Question #3
What happens to Ben at the waterfall?

He finds his sister's body
He jumps off the edge
He faints

Question #4
Which of Helen's friends was on holiday with her?

Finnur
Baldur
Andy

Question #5
Where do Ben and Hanna intend going at the end of chapter three?

In search of Helen.
To collect Helen's body.
To the local swimming pool.