Quotation: Why Read Literature?
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September Is Rereading Month
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
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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,
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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
National Book Lovers Day!
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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Vacation Reading: Part 2
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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Hiroshima Day
Today is Hiroshima Day, in memory of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The photo above, taken at Hiroshima Memorial Park, depicts a concrete, saddle-shaped monument that covers a cenotaph holding the names of all the people killed by the bomb. The arch shape represents a shelter for the souls
The Best Dystopian Novels
The Best Dystopian Novels Although I’m a bit more hopeful since the arrival of Kamala Harris at the top, I’m still quite anxious about the upcoming election here in the U.S. Having lived through the turbulent yet lively 1960s working toward change, I fear an impending regression in not only politics, but also in morality
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