jjbellinski's WEbook Profile

jjbellinski

Join Date: 10/19/2008

I'm still on a Sabbatical but hope to be posting regularly again soon.

Please note that I use the pen name jjbellinski but my real name is Bert Bell. I plan to publish under my real name but, for now, I'll use jjbellinski.

About me:
I've been writing for awhile now. I’ve written and published some short stories and poems. I'm working on a novel which I hope to finish soon but I keep neglecting it because I'm developing a serious love affair with poetry. I had my novel here on WEbook for awhile and took it down to finish it. Research and time constraints have been slowing me down.

I hope to be here on a more regular basis now I'm returning to WEbook from my Sabbatical.
My claim to fame: PLEASE NOTE: STILL PARTIALLY ON SABBATICAL

What I like to read:

Fiction: Literary, Mystery, Religious/Inspirational, Short Story, Sports & Adventure

Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Religion, Science, Sports & Adventure

Poetry: General
Favorite books:
Pnin (Nabokov)
Last Night (James Salter)
A Sport and a Pastime (James Salter)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
The Professional (W C Heinz)
The Good Priest’s Son (Reynolds Price)
The Sweet Science (Liebling)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut
The list goes on...
What I'm reading now:
The Purpose Driven Life
Collected Stories by Saul Bellow
Favorite place to read:
In solitude
My other writing:
What ever comes to mind next, I guess. But, to be honest, I tend to be obsessive and since finding this site I've been neglecting my own novel. So I must find the discipline to work harder on it.

And, finally, I'm astonished by the kindess and compassion I see on WeBook among you lovely people.
What I like to write:

Fiction: Literary
Character I'd like to be for a day:
My unattainable self.
Favorite authors:
Saul Bellow, Tom Wolfe, Hemingway, James Salter, Eudora Welty, Charles Bukowski, A J Liebling, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, W C Heinz, Reynolds Price, Kurt Vonnegut, John Donne, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, etc.

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