Moral Depth in Current Fiction
Introduction I came upon Adam O’Fallon Price’s article The Subjective Mood, in which he laments…
The Interplay of Plot and Character in Fiction
Thanks to these two bloggers for sponsoring the 2020 Blog Discussion Challenge: Nicole at Feed…
How to Recognize an Unreliable Narrator
Here’s a question that comes up periodically on literary sites: I’m having trouble reading books…
#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…
My Most Surprising Read of 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Knopf, 2022 Hardcover, 416 pages ISBN 978-0-5933-2120-1…
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0–06–092043–2 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Finding…
15 Years Ago on Notes in the Margin
For the first installment of this undertaking, I focus on this post from May 29,…
5 Effective Multiple-Perspective Novels
“There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events…
Announcing Life Stories in Literature
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Reading in Flow
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How Narrative Structure Works in Fiction
And How It Differs from Plot Have you ever wanted to yell at someone, “If…
My Top 5 Novels of All Time
Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year…