Books I Read in February 2024 A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a blend of literary criticism and mini biographies of eight female authors and how they carved out creative freedoms for themselves, alongside Biggs’s personal reflections on her experience of going through a divorce in ...
Books I Read in July 2024 The Bee Sting by Paul Murraywas shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novelSkippy Dieswhich 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 ...
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books Hobart TROLL THREAD * p.s. Hey. So, there are my faves of the year. Granted that I’m sure I forgot some things that would be there, or didn’t see/hear/read things that would’ve been there if I had. As the post title said, I’...
(That said, I, for one, am grateful for Yotam Ottolenghi’s cook books with their padded-cell covers and sheeny, stain-resistant pages, which acknowledge that preparation and cooking is a messy job. ) But cookbooks are not mere functional how-to guides; they’re emotional journeys. When cl...
“I did hope women would find them and read them,” says Bannon, a doyenne of the genre, now in her mid-eighties. “I wasn’t quite sure enough of my skill or ability to reach them, or even how widely the books were distributed, to hope that they would do some good in the ...
She has also authored the children’s books Great Uncle Hiram: a play for juniors (UK: Paxton, 1960) and Bunty Goes Exploring (UK: Lutterworth Press, 1961); this was translated in Sweden the following year. An eccentric deceased aunt leaves her nephew a run-down cottage. Unable to take ...
Nicola Yoon, 'Interview with Nicola Yoon on love, representation, and writing outside the box', Books-A-Million The flipside of this to avoid is 'tokenism', having a single character who shoehorns in X identity (for example the trope of the 'gay best friend'). Inclusive representation...
Most advocates of the Metaverse point to books and movies like Ready Player One, a dystopian science-fiction story where there is a single persistent world that everyone plays in all the time. (It’s worth noting here that the bad guys in the story operate their own completely independent vi...
While she would continue to accept her daughter’s editing on her behalf in the years to come, she would also rely on her own sure instincts as a writer of autobiographical fiction. Other books from the South Dakota Historical Society Press include: Pioneer Girl: The Path Into Fiction ...
. I had written a first draft of the scene that had fallen flat. In trying to write a more authentic scene the second time around, I asked myself whatIwould feel in his shoes and came up with what is still one of my favorite and most-commented-upon scenes in all my books. Try ...