8 Heartfelt Life Lessons from Fredrik Backman's Novel, Anxious People
Backman gradually drew me in, weaving threads of detail and story into a fine tapestry of literary art. I came to love the book.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
Need Spiritual Sustenance? Read the Novel, Gilead, to See the Power of Faith
Gilead is a tribute to the skill of a writer who created a literary work that is readable, relatable, and wondrous all at the same time.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 18, 2021
- 5 min
Five Helpful Tips For Choosing Which Books to Take on a Trip
If you love to travel, but you also love your books, you know how hard it is to decide which ones to take with you. 5 Tips for Choosing.
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
Serendipitous Insight on the New Year from the Novel, Anxious People
By Fredrik Backman Call it “Literary Luck” Sometimes, I read something that, by coincidence, is perfectly timed with an upcoming holiday....
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
Why This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger Is One Great Picaro Novel
A picaro novel is based on an outsider who wanders around seeing the best and worst of humanity. This Tender Land is one great picaro novel.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Achieving a Nearly Impossible Task: Choosing the Top Ten Books of 2020
The best of the best Oh, the Editorial Stress! It happens every year, this task that must be as difficult as a tropical ant hiking to...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Have You Ever Taught Writing? Three Novels You'll Appreciate
Seduction of Water, Punjabi Widows, Lost Friends The Art of Teaching Writing and the Unexpected Results of Doing It Well How do you...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 7, 2020
- 6 min
Choose Carefully. Pick Three Writers to Come to Your Dinner Party Tonight
If I could choose three writers to come to a literary dinner party today, they'd be Louise Penny, Rick Bragg, and Ben Shattuck.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 5, 2020
- 6 min
How Books Connect to the Epic Moments of Your Life
Books are emotionally linked to every momentous occasion of my existence. Your life is probably "book-marked" too.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
Can a Book That Costs $22,000 Be Better Than a Trip to Italy?
The Sistine Chapel 3-volume set reproduces artwork at a 1:1 proportion, making you feel "as if you were a bird on Michelangelo's shoulder."
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
If You Love Elephants, Read These Two Very Different Books
If you love elephants, read Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult and The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke. Two books that both honor elephants.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
One Book That Will Make You a Better Writer
Ben Blatt's book Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve uses data to examine the elements of great writing: similes, cliches, adverbs, and more.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Overstory: An Epic Tale of Our Relationship with Trees
The best in environmental fiction, Richard Powers' The Overstory depicts the intertwined destiny of humans and trees.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
The Precarious Balance of Life in "The Atomic Weight of Love"
The Atomic Weight of Love is a story of a woman trying to find herself, torn between dreams and demands and the secrets of Los Alamos.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
Rebecca, Du Maurier's Gothic Novel, Comes Again To Haunt Us
I got a thrill from reading du Maurier's Rebecca years ago. I got another thrill when I found out that Netflix is releasing the movie.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
"Dune" Will Come Again
Frank Herbert's science fiction Classic, Dune, is being remade into a new full-length feature film to be released in December 2020.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky provides a look at how WWII impacted the citizens of Italy and the true story of one boy who becomes a spy and a hero.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Ramsey's Gold: An Escape Adventure Just for Fun
Treasure-hunting novels like Ramsey's Gold remind me that reading doesn't have to be serious. It's can be a fun escape into adventure.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
The Post Office Mural Project in the Novel "Big Lies in a Small Town"
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain uses the Post Office Mural Project as the basis for a compelling story of art and compassion.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 8, 2020
- 5 min
The Vietnamese Immigrant Experience: A Mother-Daughter Tale of Angst
A Family in Six Tones is brutally honest, mother-daughter account of coming to America when Saigon fell and the lifelong effects on both.
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