Comments on: Chicago in Pictures http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/ Moving Forward on the Writing Path Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1459 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:02:18 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1459 Sigh. She’s been Caro in my head so long, but I keep running up against problems with the names. We’ll see. :)

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1458 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:01:51 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1458 Thanks, Susan!

]]> By: Sherrie Petersen http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1457 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:19:20 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1457 How wonderful! I like the idea that your history will intertwine with Caro/Clara. I think Clara sounds more traditional, Caro sounds more unusual. I guess it depends on which one your character needs to be for the time she was living in.

]]> By: Susan Taylor Brown http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1456 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:26:15 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1456 This sounds like it has been such a wonderfully rich experience for you. I’m so glad you’ve had this chance.

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1455 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:07:07 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1455 It makes the story carry a lot of weight in my own life, I think. Hey, I was telling my sister about your book, and she wants Me to get it for Her for Christmas. Which I will do! :)

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1454 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:05:53 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1454 Thanks, Stella. I have been looking for some details–I’ll take a look at that book. You’re adding to my happy feeling about librarians today!

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1453 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:03:54 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1453 Oh! I had no idea you could WIN the doll. Oh, well, I’ll just have to leave room for two. :)

They had some old photos of the house, IN the house–and you could see that it was the lighting & the photographic quality. The house itself was just beautiful. Yes, I could live there.

]]> By: Stella Michel http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1452 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:50:31 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1452 What a fascinating trip, Becky! I’m sure the information you gathered will help shape your writing and add texture to it. My husband’s grandfather also died of the flu (the swine flu) back in 1918.

If you’re looking for a well-researched children’s book on life in a tenement, albeit a NYC tenement, take a look at Deborah Hopkinson’s book, Shutting Out the Sky.

]]> By: Jeannine Atkins http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1451 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:29:00 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1451 What a rich experience that sounds like! The library — with those books and helpful librarians waiting! The old homestead and cemetary. Hull House — which I imagined as taller, darker, more rambling as you did. Worth it just for that.

It will be exciting seeing changes happen. And I also like the name Clara.

Hope you’re catching up on rest (with Jane doll propped nearby — I believe they give those dolls to those who win the Jane Addams book award.)

]]> By: Amy G. http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/10/chicago-in-pictures/#comment-1449 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:32:21 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1012#comment-1449 That was a moving post, Becky. I think it’s wonderful that you’re weaving pieces of your own family’s story into the one that you’re writing. (I like the name Clara, too.)

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