Best Snow Day Reads: 19 Page-Turners To Enjoy While Snowed In
Best Snow Day Reads: 19 Page-Turners To Enjoy While Snowed In. Just in case. . .
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“Revolutionary Road”: The Film
In an earlier post I reviewed the novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, one of the books on my Classics Club list. The book contained some passages that presented Frank Wheeler as a melodramatically theatrical man always concerned about how he appears to others: He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the
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Sarah Gerard, Dean Koontz, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith
The 10 Best Books Shorter Than 150 Pages Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star, recommends 10 short novels. I’ve got this one bookmarked for next December, when I may be scrambling to complete by personal reading challenge on Goodreads. Dean Koontz on Life, Literature & His New Book ‘Saint Odd’ (INTERVIEW) “I’ve always loved the
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Reading Recommendations
You’ll find a lot of recommended reading on last month’s “Best Books of 2014” round-ups, but if you’re looking for more theme-related material, here are a few lists: Religious Reading From the New York Times: We took the opportunity to ask a few writers to recommend novels with religious themes, preferably lesser known. (If you
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“Books fall open, you fall in.” —David McCord
Related Post: Getting Lost in a Good Book 5 Inspiring Quotes to Wrap Up the Year The Goodreads blog features five book-related quotations to end the year and asks, “Which one speaks to you?” The one that most directly speaks to me is the first one: “Books fall open, you fall in.” —David McCord
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On Reading
The top 10 books about reading A list by Rebecca Mead, author of The Road to Middlemarch: I wasn’t aware of the term “bibliomemoir” until the novelist Joyce Carol Oates used it – or perhaps coined it? – in reviewing my book, The Road to Middlemarch, earlier this year. But it’s a fitting enough label
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0–06–092043–2 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Basic Books, 1997 ISBN 0–465–02411–4 Athletes talk about being “in the zone.” For musicians, it’s being “in the groove.” Even if you’re not an athlete or a musician, you’ve probably shared the
Getting Lost in a Good Book
Getting Lost in a Good Book: Scientific Research on Reading Have you ever gotten so absorbed in reading a novel that you lost track of time and of what was happening around you—-even, in fact, that there was a world around you outside of the one you were reading about? Most serious readers have had
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Annie Proulx, Downton Abbey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Franzen, Toni Morrison, Alan Bradley, David Mitchell
Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain? She needs to let it go “I wish I’d never written the story,” Proulx told the Paris Review. “It’s just been the cause of hassle and problems and irritation since the film came out … So many people have completely misunderstood the story. I think it’s important to leave
Classics Club Spin #8: “Revolutionary Road”
Related Post: CLASSICS CLUB SPIN #8 Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road Original publication date: 1961 Rpt. Random House, 2008 eISBN 978–0–307–45627–4 This novel is most often described as an anti-suburban tract, a condemnation of the life of conformity and veiled unhappiness that flourished in the U.S. after World War II. And it is that. But it’s
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