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Hit Hard: How to Deal With Ambiguous Loss
Grieving Those Who Are Alive But Not What They Used to Be Photo by John Torcasio on Unsplash Honest. Raw. Painful…Helpful and Healing...

Melissa Gouty
Mar 22, 20218 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Feb 25, 20215 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Feb 25, 20216 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Feb 18, 20215 min read


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....

Melissa Gouty
Dec 31, 20202 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Dec 9, 20205 min read


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...

Melissa Gouty
Nov 30, 20202 min read


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...

Melissa Gouty
Nov 27, 20203 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Nov 7, 20206 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Nov 5, 20206 min read


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."

Melissa Gouty
Nov 4, 20203 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Oct 27, 20204 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Oct 22, 20203 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Oct 22, 20204 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Oct 13, 20205 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Oct 12, 20204 min read


"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.

Melissa Gouty
Sep 22, 20203 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Sep 22, 20204 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Sep 22, 20204 min read


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.

Melissa Gouty
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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