It’s time for another adventure in Kate’s 6 Degrees of Separation Meme from her blog, Books Are My Favourite and Best. We are given a book to start with, and from there we free associate six books. This month we begin with a book that everyone’s talking about – Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, which Goodreads […]
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A Love Letter to the Girls Who Die First in Horror Films When I recently read Riley Sager’s novel Final Girls, I didn’t realize that the final girl, the last girl left standing, is a standard trope of slasher movies. In this article Lindsay King-Miller talks about “a film’s Final Girl, a term coined by
Thanks to Madame Writer, on whose blog I found this tag. (She in turn traced the tag back to here.) I undertook this challenge because I’m in favor of anything that makes me stop and think about the books that I own, read or unread. 1. Find an author name or title with a Z
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Tash Aw in Conversation with Chia-Chia Lin Chinese Malaysian novelist Tash Aw discusses his latest novel, We, the Survivors, and the relationship between literature and the immigrant experience. Of course there are always local details that make more sense to some. But when a very specific story of racism is committed to paper, it acquires
