Happy New Year!
(Image by Markéta Klimešová from Pixabay) A happy new year wish for all my bookish friends. I look forward to sharing book thoughts and news with all of you throughout 2024. Keep reading and writing!
Literary Links
How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control “Lisa Yaszek on the Feminist History of Science Fiction” Since I started exploring Life Stories in Literature in the last few years, I’ve read more science fiction than I had read in my entire life before. Indeed, science fiction the ability to explore other possible
The Best Books I Read in 2023
I was very picky about the books I chose to read this year. As a result, I read a lot of good books—so many that putting together this list was an agonizing process. In past years, I’ve kept my best books list to a total of 15, usually a top ten list plus five honorable
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Life Stories in Literature: Links
Related Posts: 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World “How habits of speech can shape our thoughts.” Language is the most prominent social construct of all; humans develop language to communicate with each other about how they experience the world and their place in it. Claire Cameron explains “the primary way
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My Big, Year-End Catch-Up Post
Usually Notes in the Margin overflows with stories during December that deal with everything book-related. But we were traveling from mid-September to mid-December. In an effort to catch up with everything I missed during that time, here’s a compendium of literary topics. The Ultimate Best Books of 2023 List “Reading All the Lists So You
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Books You Can Read in One Day
Rose/House by Arkady Martine Clockwork by Philip Pullman Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls The Last Book I Read in One Sitting: 16 Readers Share 20 Books You Can Read in One Sitting 7 Bite-Size Books That Pack a Powerful Punch 10 Epic Books Under 250 pages 10 One-Sitting Reads for a Well-Deserved Lazy Day Some
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The Basket Boats of Vietnam
During the French colonial period in Vietnam, authorities exacted a tax on boats. So the people of the fishing villages got creative: “These aren’t boats. They’re baskets.” We saw these boats all over the beaches around Da Nang. Sometimes they were upright, as here, but often they were inverted to provide a waterproof covering for
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Literary Links: Life Stories in Literature
Related Post: I recently realized that I often feature links to articles that pertain to Life Stories in Literature without explaining exactly how those articles fit into this topic. To help you grasp how wide-ranging this topic is, here’s a group of links with a bit more explanation than usual. Whose Story Is It? These
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We’re Off to Sail the Seas Again!
We went traveling between June 8th and July 9th. And now we’re about to leave home again. Normally we wouldn’t be taking major trips this close together, but the current exploration is the last of our postponed then rescheduled trips from the COVID-19 times. This time we’ll be gone for three months on an itinerary
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