First Line Friday: December 13
“Your future contains dry bones.” —How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin This story begins with a prophecy,[…]
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Summary: Imagine the horror of waking up in a coffin, surrounded by suffocating darkness, with no hope of escape. Drawing[…]
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Happy birthday to Mark Twain
Today is the birthday of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Famous for such novels as The Adventures of[…]
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Review: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
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Creative Writing: a Pride and Prejudice Poem
I like to play around with different poetic forms to make parodies of classic literature and popular culture. This is[…]
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Review: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Summary: Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a[…]
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The Books That Shaped Me: The Hobbit
Can you remember what your first novel was? Mine was The Hobbit. When I was five years old, my dad[…]
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Notable and Quotable: November 20
“I think that’s why they call it a breakthrough. It cracks you open and lets light in.” –from Eliza and[…]
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First Line Friday, September 20
“Later, when they talked about that night, the boys would say that the van must have been cursed.” —Hampton Heights[…]
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