The Guilt and Grief of Discarding Your Books - And How to Avoid It
Think twice before discarding your treasured books. Getting rid of a book is like tossing out an old friend and can produce feelings of guil
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 28, 2020
- 9 min
Why the Backlash from American Dirt?
If you live under a literary rock, you may not know about the furor that has erupted over Jeanine Cummins’ novel, American Dirt, released fr
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 22, 2020
- 2 min
A Simple Way to Get More Pleasure From Reading
Reading is supposed to be fun. Sometimes we read for information. Sometimes we want a different viewpoint. Sometimes we read for pure pleasu
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian's newest book is a book about a pathogen that starts a global pandemic. How does the simultaneous real-life pandemic affect
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
Fragrance Smolders in the Pages of The Scent-Keeper
If you take a deep breath, you’ll smell the beautiful perfume of the pages in Erica Bauermeister’s book, The Scent-Keeper.
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Melissa Gouty
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
Five Things You Should Know About Book World Now
Many of us want to write a book and then publish it with the hope that thousands — maybe millions of people (be still, my heart) — will read
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
Hannah Beckerman's novel, If Only I Could Tell You, shows how easily a family can fall apart and how hard it is to put back together.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 23, 2020
- 3 min
Be Like the Cellist of Sarajevo to Overcome Fear
Music lifts us up during times of crisis as proven by the Italian balcony singers and the book, The Cellist of Sarajevo.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 20, 2020
- 3 min
Feeling Discouraged? Read Lily King's Writers & Lovers for a Boost
Lily King's novel Writers & Lovers tells of the struggles of creative life, of finding love, and of determination to make dreams come true.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 18, 2020
- 6 min
Eight Books to Distract and Delight You Right Now
Now is the time to stay home and catch up on all those books you’ve wanted to read in the past, but didn’t have time. Sheltering in place do
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga
I kept thinking about that as I read Robert Hellenga’s novel, The Snakewoman of Little Egypt. It almost sounds like the opening of a joke: “
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 4, 2020
- 6 min
How to Sell 60 Million Books in Spite of the Critics
The critics hated The Bridges of Madison County, but the tactics Robert James Waller used in his novel made the readers love it. 60 million
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
How A Man Called Ove Changes from Bitter to Lovable
Fredrik Backman uses three tactics to change a bitter, old curmudgeon into a lovable man in A Man Called Ove, the best-selling novel.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 25, 2020
- 4 min
Truth-Telling in the World of Fiction
Julie Orringer's novel dramatizes the life of Varian Fry, who helped get Jewish artists and writers out of occupied France. Much is fiction.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 30, 2020
- 5 min
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Is No Ordinary Novel
Aspiring writers can learn from the techniques used by Krueger in the acclaimed novel, Ordinary Grace.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 30, 2020
- 4 min
Why Read a Book with an Unlikable Character?
why spend time reading a book when you dislike the main character? Consider this.The most unlikeable character impacts you the most. I came
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 14, 2020
- 8 min
7 Ways Keeping a Book Journal Will Improve Your Writing
Unless you’re blessed with a photographic memory, you don’t remember each and every book you read. A book journal will help with that.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jan 6, 2020
- 5 min
Reasons to Read the Novel, Circe, by Madeline Miller
Circe was a unique and memorable book that took me to a world I had never allowed myself to imagine…the halls of the Titan gods forever batt
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 27, 2019
- 5 min
"The Rest of the Story:" Delia Owens' Book Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens may was influenced by her work in Africa and the unsolved murder of a poacher that implicated her family when she wrote Crawdads
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 25, 2019
- 4 min
The Forgotten Ingredient for a Better Life: Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Power of Solitude
“Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter and companionship to w
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