How I Review Novels
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Announcing Life Stories in Literature
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The Interplay of Plot and Character in Fiction
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How to Recognize an Unreliable Narrator
Here’s a question that comes up periodically on literary sites: I’m having trouble reading books…
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…
6 Illustrations of How Setting Works in Literature
In its most basic meaning, setting in fiction refers to the time and place in…
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…
2 Novels About Communities
These Women by Ivy Pochoda Harper Audio, 2020 Narrated by: Bahni Turpin and Frankie Corzo…
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…
#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…