The #Write #Words? Post 28
Examining Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions, click here for the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Xanadu,…
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner: #BookReview.
400 pages Literary Classics When a book is as well-known as this classic, it’s difficult to know whether anything new can be said about it. But…
The #Write #Words? Post 1
A new series of posts about what words to use, and how. In this series, I’ll consider Onomatopoeia, Simile, and Collective Nouns. From time to time,…
Cocktails with a Dead Man, by Joe Albanese: #BookReview.
106 pages Poetry This is a mix of the intensely personal, regarding love and its outcomes; the general as it relates to writers a group; and…
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin: #BookReview.
304 pages Children’s/Science Fiction and Fantasy It may seem like an odd time of life to be reading children’s literature. In my defence, I bought this…
Invitation to Poetry, by Mihai Brinas: #BookReview.
Poetry is such a subjective literary genre that it’s often difficult to reach a conclusion about whether a collection is very good, difficult, obscure, or any…
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad: #BookReview.
136 pages Literature/Classics (I read the Penguin Classics version, which includes a chronology, introductions, notes, a map of the region, the author’s Congo Diary, an author’s…
