KyiMayKaung

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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Highly recommended--J J Moyes'

Me Before You. Also a movie now-

After You.

Still Me.

Goes seamlessly from a small village in England

to London

to NY City

Moyes'"British English" changing to American--

Great "granular detail" as Rachel Maddow would put it.

Great sense of place --and human beings.

Reminiscent of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. which is his autobiography--we only learn the meaning of Angela's Ashes in Vol 2--'Tis.

Lesson in how to write 2 + volume novels--

Tin Than U has done it already in his 3 volume Ayuthia's Pledge (Ayudaya Thitsar) in Burmese.

GRR Martin in Game of Thrones series--but the first 3 volumes are the best. I read the Walmart edition--at least the Walmart sale version--with a pic from the TV Series on the cover. Later I had a tap overflow and my book "expanded" and I had to dispose of it in the recylcle bin.

The opening scene is the best.

You also have to get into your characters' heads. It is not "head hopping" as one writing instructor labeled it.

It is interior monolog--and it appears regulary in all the C-Dramas I have watched so far.

Moyes does it particularly well--not tick tock tick tock regularly like a clock.

One (radio broadcast) instructor gave an example with classical music --"It's not a story--no words--but we don't get bored (because the tempo changes.)"

Kyi May Kaung

12-21-2025

Screen shot--Inle Rower--but not with his feet.