When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In “The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?” Kamran Javadizadeh looks at The Letters of Emily Dickinson, “a new, definitive edition that collects, reorders, and freshly annotates every surviving letter that Dickinson sent (or drafted) to someone else, along with the […]
This month’s starting book is After Story by Larissa Behrendt. I haven’t read it, although it sounds like a book I would appreciate. Here’s the description from Goodreads: When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England’s most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together
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For the past few years I’ve set aside September as a month for rereading works that I’ve continued to think about since I first read them. I don’t remember exactly when I started doing this or even why, but knowing that it will eventually come up gives me comfort all year. And once I started
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Neuromancer: the birth of an SF classic “Author William Gibson and his editor, Malcolm Edwards, recall how a seminal SF work came to publication” Neuromancer came out just as I was seriously making the transition from academic reading to popular reading. I’d read almost no science fiction at the time and was curious to try
7 Books That Show Storytelling Has Consequences London writer Tody Lloyd explains that in is novel Fervor, the protagonist “aims to write and publish an account of her father-in-law’s experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka without his consent.” Despite the fact that no one in her family wants her to do this, she proceeds
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Your time is valuable. So if you only have time for one link this weekend, please make it the article about Barack Obama’s reading lists. It’s heart-warming in many ways. Epistolary Novels To Start Reading Epistolary novels can tell a story on an intimate level. Through one or more characters’ written letters, emails, diary entries,
15 Great Psychological Thriller Books To Bend Your Mind Apparently even business-oriented folks like to read novels, especially psychological thrillers. In this article for Forbes, Sughnen Yongo writes that a “good psychological thriller book earns readers’ respect by capturing their attention with high-stakes conflict, unforgettable tension and unpredictable twists,” then offers a list of “15
It’s National Book Lovers Day, a day to celebrate! Visit a library or a bookstore—or attack your TBR pile. What I’m doing today: catching up on my digital reading journal with all the books I read on vacation. What about you? How are you observing National Book Lovers Day? © 2024 by Mary Daniels Brown
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Related Post: My daughter recommended this book by prolific science fiction author John Scalzi to me because she knows I like a good science fiction story that examines timeless topics and themes. I read Scalzi’s Old Man’s War several years ago and liked it, so I queued this one up for vacation reading. The novel
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