Really enjoying revisiting Anne of Green Gables book along with watching the series
Reading an anthropology book for fun- on physical anthro
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- Thu March 30th, 2023, 10:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Reading? March 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 799
- Fri December 30th, 2022, 6:33 am
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Where are you traveling to next?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 14873
Re: Where are you traveling to next?
Planning a trip to US-Mexico borer as a pilgrimage to the book The Line becomes a River. Itis a moving, moving memoir.
- Mon August 29th, 2022, 8:53 am
- Forum: The Writing Business
- Topic: What makes a good fiction writer?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 420
Re: What makes a good fiction writer?
I think among all the points you made- a good fiction writer is definitely marked out by their talent for evoking emotional affect in many myriads of nuances, from stylistic options to how one can bend language to say the exact thing meant. I think precision of grammatical precision and sentence agr...
- Thu April 7th, 2022, 8:38 am
- Forum: The Craft of Writing
- Topic: Language
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6928
Re: Language
I think this such an excellent question esp because so many potential stalwart authors of historical fiction do not even attempt it because of their fear of not being able to capture the language of the era. I think Hamilton as a musical really does such a great job of playing with it- there the lan...
- Tue November 9th, 2021, 5:50 am
- Forum: Who Wrote It? What's the Title?
- Topic: Saga, set mostly during Paris Peace Conference
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1329
Re: Saga, set mostly during Paris Peace Conference
kind of sad that the name was never determined coz i would love to read this
Re: Raziya
oh wow- this thread led me to read about this sultanah. so incredible her glory
- Tue November 9th, 2021, 5:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you reading? November 2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 462
Re: What are you reading? November 2021
i just finished reading this memoir called rumours of spring it is written by a Kashmiri woman about growing up under the indian occupation- it was truly so so very heart wrenching- The fact that it is called Rumours of spring really broke my heart because it pointed to the hope that gets often tram...
- Wed June 16th, 2021, 10:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Are you in a book group?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 496
Re: Are you in a book group?
my improv grou has monthly reading sessions
- Wed June 16th, 2021, 10:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Book shopping 2017
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3778
- Wed June 16th, 2021, 10:25 am
- Forum: Who Wrote It? What's the Title?
- Topic: Searching for info on a writer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 567
Re: Searching for info on a writer
Have you attempted to write to the publishers? Usually that helps me to get in touch with the writers