An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire; home; and childhoodmdash;nests; food; beds; birds; fairies; bits of string; ribbon; goodnight kisses; appetites sated and deniedmdash;Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons; loss and longing; writing and photography. In this homage to four boyish men and one boymdash;J. M. Barrie; Roland Barthes; Marcel Proust; D. W. Winnicott; and the young photographer Jacques Henri Lartiguemdash;Carol Mavor embraces what some have anxiously labeled an over-attachment to the mother. Here; the maternal is a cord (unsevered) to the night-light of boyish reading.To ldquo;read boyishlyrdquo; is to covet the motherrsquo;s body as a home both lost and never lost; to desire her as only a son can; as only a body that longs for; but will never become Mother; can. Nostalgia (from the Greek nostos = return to native land; and algos = suffering or grief) is at the heart of the labor of boyish reading; which suffers in its love affair with the mother. The writers and the photographer that Mavor lovingly considers are boyish readers par excellence: Barrie; creator of Peter Pan; the boy who refused to grow up; Barthes; the ldquo;professor of desirerdquo; who lived with or near his mother until her death; Proust; the modernist master of nostalgia; Winnicott; therapist to ldquo;good enoughrdquo; mothers; and Lartigue; the child photographer whose images invoke ghostlike memories of a past that is at once comforting and painful.Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision; Reading Boyishly is stuffed full with more than 200 images. At once delicate and powerful; the book is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and on the writers and artists who create from those threads art that captures an irretrievable past.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is a very good book. Lots of well organized and useful informationBy MJTThis is a very good book. Lots of well organized and useful information!This is the second book I have read by Mike Senior; also read "Mixing Secrets"; both books are very informative and will be kept close at hand.This is not a quick read as it goes into depth with examples and suggested exercises; but stick with it; and you will be enlightened.To get the most out of it; definitely plan on doing his suggested exercises.I can definitely recommend this book.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A wise investement!By PaulaIm a songwriter who decided to become my own recording engineer due to the high costs of studio time for demo sessions. But setting up my own studio presented a real challenge. I bought Mike Seniors "Mixing Secrets" and discovered in the first few pages that my studio set-up was all wrong! I studied his book from cover to cover and I was on my way into the world of recording. I learned so much from Mikes suggestions that when his newest book appeared; "Recording Secrets for the Small Studio" I did not hesitate to get it into my hands. This book contains serious training for achieving superb vocal tracks as well as cool mic techniques for capturing the rich tones of an acoustic guitar. Concepts like "Comb-Filtering" at first glance; can be a bit scary to a songwriter; but Mike demystifies these concepts. He even talks about using Compression in a way that makes perfect sense to a non gear head. And the diagrams are terrific tools. After you buy this book and you wake up in the middle of the night kicking yourself because you spent money on that Crumhorn that you will never learn to play; know that your wise investment in Mikes book will offset that expense along with the Accordion gathering dust somewhere in your studio.Cool Crow6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Great book. I really enjoyed Mixing SecretsBy S J ParkerGreat book. I really enjoyed Mixing Secrets; and so had high hopes for this book. I wasnt disappointed. This is a great discussion on how to set up and use microphones. Very in-depth; and very informative. By the end of this book; I had a much deeper understanding of how to set up mics for recording; and how to choose which ones to use.