2 Novels About Communities
These Women by Ivy Pochoda Harper Audio, 2020 Narrated by: Bahni Turpin and Frankie Corzo…
Why I Blog
Looking over some blogging resources recently reminded me that the first question would-be bloggers are…
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…
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0–06–092043–2 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Finding…
My Top 5 Novels of All Time
Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year…
How Narrative Structure Works in Fiction
And How It Differs from Plot Have you ever wanted to yell at someone, “If…
12 Novels That Changed How I Read Fiction
Thanks to these two bloggers for sponsoring the annual Blog Discussion Challenge: Nicole at Feed…
Moral Depth in Current Fiction
Introduction I came upon Adam O’Fallon Price’s article The Subjective Mood, in which he laments…
5 Effective Multiple-Perspective Novels
“There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events…
How I Review Novels
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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…