by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 5, 2024 | RELAX: Historical Fiction, RESIST: Feminism
Women have been fighting for recognition since time immemorial—it’s no secret. Jodi Picoult explores this topic in her upcoming novel By Any Other Name. She juxtaposes two female characters in what seems, on the surface, to be two very different sets of circumstances....
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 25, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else
Ben Blatt is a numbers guy investigating words in Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing. Experts hotly debate the intersection of the two, especially whether such a thing is valid. Blatt...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 16, 2019 | LEARN: Everything Else
Stephen King offers a memoir and discussion of the creative life in On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I tried to judiciously underline, but found so many valuable nuggets that my book is marked up like a high school English textbook.The book is divided into two major...
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