Tag: novels
member name: Becky Powell
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February 17, 2008 06:40 PM EST --
When can a writer's writing be used against him in a court of law? This is the question David Grann examines in his fascinating article "True Crime, A postmodern murder mystery," . . .
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April 29, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Feminist criticism focuses on assumptions about gender in literature and how these assumptions . . .
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May 08, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
I was in my car when I heard Meg Wolitzer on NPR discussing her new novel, The Ten Year Nap. For a weird second, it seemed like I was talking on the radio, but that was impossible . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Vintage Books,1998.
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fat, ambitious book that . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:42 PM EST --
Recently I discovered that there is an entire universe of literature out there for young adults. I am way past my prime for teen-ager books but because I homeschool my son, been able . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . .
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February 25, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
One goal I set for my son in reading this year was to try kinds of reading he had not tried before. He reads almost exclusively graphic novels. When I first heard the term "graphic novel," . . .
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March 31, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Last night I said farewell to old friends. I left them where they were and walked down the dirt road that led through town. I passed through the heavy gates that protected the . . .
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February 11, 2008 08:59 AM EST --
James' posting "Murder Chess in Spain" made me think about novels with settings so vivid, they essentially become another character. How many hours do school kids and writing . . .
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March 18, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Study Notes #1
"Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
--Virginia . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
Putting it in Context
Imagine your editor asks you to write a literary critique of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. What factors would shape how you analyze the book? . . .
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January 25, 2008 09:22 AM EST --
Welcome to you folks who have joined this group! Let's get some book talk going. Tell us what you are reading now and why you are reading it. (i.e., for school, to learn something, the . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
I'm changing things up a bit at Book Talk. I realized that my attempts to get reading discussions rolling over the last few weeks have been pretty lame. I've gotten some nice . . .
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April 07, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
Long ago in a faraway desert, a man of whom we know nothing decided that the words he had scratched onto clay were not conventional accounting signs numbering legal decrees or heads of cattle, . . .
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