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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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 21, 2019
- 4 min
Conflict in Book World
But what happens when two authors write two books about a relatively obscure topic and the second book, released later, has definite similar
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 15, 2019
- 4 min
Why a 40-Year-Old Book Still Rocks Readers
The critical components of any classic: Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear This year, in a drastic departure from our norm, the Monday...
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 4, 2019
- 3 min
A Raucous, Racy Diary - and Why We Still Read It 300 Years Later
William Byrd's Diary 300 year-old diary is filled with good health, good thoughts, and good humor - and coded references to sex.
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