#CCgothicbooktag Here’s another exercise for the Halloween season from the Classics Club: Gothic Book Tag. The assignment is to post answers to 13 questions. (1) Which classic book has scared you the most? This has to be Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” (continued in #2) (2) Scariest moment in a book? That […]
Awards Introduction: 6 Literary Prizes and a Few Winning Books We Love There are so many literary prizes that keeping them all straight becomes a problem. Who awards which ones, and what are the entry and judgment criteria? Here are descriptions of a few—Nobel Prize, National Book Award, Costa Award, Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker, Women’s
It’s only the middle of the month, so you’ve got some time to get into the Halloween book/film mood. Here are some suggestions. WOMEN, TRAUMA, AND HAUNTED HOUSES Sarah Smeltzer writes: The haunted house is a staple of the horror genre and it’s easy to see why. Your house should be familiar and it should
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Source: Maryse Condé Awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature
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It’s been a while since I wrote about my love for Big Books (tomes of 500 or more pages). Here are the five most recent ones I’ve read. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett, 928 pages This is the final entry in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge trilogy. (The first two are Pillars of the Earth,
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Source: Mental Health Book Recommendations From Those Who Struggle Here’s a great list of books that can help us better understand mental health issues and the people who face them.
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Source: 2018 National Book Award Finalists Announced
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The Oxford Book of Footnotes* If you’ve ever waded through a large academic tome wrangling with a sequence of footnotes at the bottom of nearly every page, you’ll appreciate this piece by Bruce McCall in The New Yorker. How Doctors Use Poetry A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and
Over on my personal blog I write on topics of interest to people approaching or already into their retirement years. When writing on the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons, which occurs each year on October 1, I included a list of five novels that feature older adult characters. Being of retirement age myself,
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