The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novel Skippy Dies which I read last year. It is a portrait of the Barnes family who live in a small Irish town and have fallen on hard times following the financial ...
That's why if you're writing your first book (or even your tenth), the best thing you can do is to simplify your initial idea. And the best way to simplify your central idea is to write it as a single premise sentence. 2. A Premise Becomes the Foundation of Your Book You have to...
barely has seen since he ran off to Hollywood 35 years ago --- suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family...
the IT guy and fellow Native who caught her eye on her first day, seems to actually be interested in her too. Despite her unease over the no-dating policy at work, they start to see each other secretly, which somehow makes it even hotter?
Hoover reveals that her novel was inspired by her mother, who experienced domestic abuse from her husband when Hoover was a child. She shared that she wrote the book to educate people on what domestic abuse can look like from the inside of a relationship. ...
What Miss Piggy Taught Me About AbuseIn this excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Nichole Perkins discusses the consequences of believing that the way to a man’s heart is to wear it down. ByNichole Perkins book excerptJuly 27, 2021 Closer to Perfect“I wish someone had said something like, ...
The mundanities of life can return, only they seem even more mundane in comparison. So, I think that was Healey’s intention. It also serves as a quieter phase in the novel where suspicions and theories are mulled over further, before the tension is racked up again towards the ending ...
Cocky me thought “Well, I’m going to read it in English and peek into the French translation if need be”. Faulkner’s prose humbled me right away and I ended up reading the French translation and peeking into the original text. Hell, even in French I was not always sure what he ...
We spent wonderful time at the theatre, even if the life story of these two ladies is rather sad. The Roaring Twenties by the Dutch company Släpstik. It’s also a string of acts with a theme around the Roaring Twenties. It was fun, a mix of acrobatics, singing and acting. ...
The women in this series are shot, stabbed, beaten, kidnapped, and used. There are also strong women who may have once been downtrodden but will no longer tolerate abuse. Jackson Brodie often falls in love with these women and occasionally marries them. Don’t be frustrated if it takes a...