#TopTenTuesday: 10 Memoirs That Taught Me the Power of Life Stories
Today’s topic for #TopTenTuesday is comfort reads, “books or kinds of books you turn to…
The Interplay of Plot and Character in Fiction
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2 Novels About Communities
These Women by Ivy Pochoda Harper Audio, 2020 Narrated by: Bahni Turpin and Frankie Corzo…
My Top 5 Novels of All Time
Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year…
Reading in Flow
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6 Illustrations of How Setting Works in Literature
In its most basic meaning, setting in fiction refers to the time and place in…
Why I Blog
Looking over some blogging resources recently reminded me that the first question would-be bloggers are…
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0–06–092043–2 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Finding…
Moral Depth in Current Fiction
Introduction I came upon Adam O’Fallon Price’s article The Subjective Mood, in which he laments…
Gothic Elements in Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
Gothic literature features characteristics such as magic, mystery, chivalry, horror, clanking chains, ghosts, and dark…
12 Novels That Changed How I Read Fiction
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5 Effective Multiple-Perspective Novels
“There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events…