In between novels, I’ll read a bit of nonfiction, most recently The Club, by Leo Damrosch, Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell, and The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. For a while it’ll be all Edith Wharton then all Kazuo Ishiguro, or Homer, or Jane Austen, or Zora Neal Hurston, or Thomas Mann, or Emily St. By nature, I’m a serial enthusiast, so I go through phases. Alas, I was not wise.Īpart from your reading duties as a critic, do you have a go-to genre? If I had been wise, when I got to Bowdoin I would have continued my high school French and thus been able to read Dumas in the original today. I love toggling back and forth, especially when, as happened to me with The Three Musketeers, the audiobook is from one translator and the print edition from another. (So much power hunger so many beheadings!) Double reading in this way, alternating between eye and ear, has become my favorite method. Now that Thomas Cromwell is well and truly dead, I’m deep into the audiobook of her novel of the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, having already read it twice on paper. After finishing The Mirror and the Light this summer, in the conventional way, I turned around and re-read her entire Wolf Hall trilogy on audiobook. I’m just coming off a huge Hilary Mantel binge. The truth is, I read many more books than I can review (or would want to, since I read to winnow), so it wouldn’t be fair to tell.
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Thankfully, by the end of the play that aim has been achieved with assistance from Robert and his wife. Goring constantly baffles his father with convoluted statements about paradoxes, buttonholes and triviality whilst Lord Caversham despairingly encourages him to marry. In particular, I found the ‘flawless dandy’ Lord Goring’s relationship with his traditionalist father quite comical. The characters, too, are wonderfully amusing, if a little stereotypical. Typical of its author, the conclusion occurs after at least two cases of mistaken identity, a brooch is stolen, several letters are misinterpreted and there have been some wonderful monologues on contemporary gender roles. Romantic subplots concerning Chiltern’s wife, best friend and their social group complement the main storyline well and prevent the overall play from appearing overly serious. We follow his various attempts to control the situation whilst keeping his wife in the dark and preventing a great public scandal. The play centres around Sir Robert Chiltern, a high-standing politician being blackmailed by the altogether repellent Mrs Cheveley, a Viennese socialite. But I have found a new favourite in An Ideal Husband, which was written in 1893 and is charmingly satirical. Many people recognise Oscar Wilde for his famous Gothic-style novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, or his well-known lighthearted comedy The Importance of Being Earnest – both excellent works of fiction. He tried his hand at sci-fi and mystery without much luck. Christopher Pike got “tons of rejection letters” before selling Slumber Party.īefore he was a YA horror author, Pike-who had wanted to be a writer since high school-was painting houses and doing computer programming. (The author doesn't do many interviews, so many of these revelations come directly from writings on his official Facebook page.) 1. dinosaur people?! Read on for behind-the-scenes stories about, and the inspirations for, some of Pike’s most popular books. That might not have been far from reality: In his three-decade career, the author has sold millions of books, with plots ranging from teens framing friends for their deaths to teens traveling through time to teens who were actually. In the ‘90s, it felt like every teenager had their nose buried in a Christopher Pike novel. His masterful Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories weaves a complex and intricate tale about the people living in the mythical Central American town and I wouldn’t be surprised if the epic is one day adapted for TV/movies. He’s certainly not a one-trick pony, though. Gilbert’s penchant for the bizarre and demented always appealed to my sensibilities. Renowned indy comics publisher Fantagraphics would soon take notice and in 1982 they began publishing an ongoing Love & Rockets series in a magazine format. Gilbert, Mario, and Jaime Hernandez made comics history when they launched Love & Rockets back in 1981, with a self published black & white edition of their first issue. work before in a previous post, but this time we’re going to focus specifically on Gilbert Hernandez(AKA ‘BETO). I could keep going, that's only a small fraction of my follow list. Some great examples of stories with overall solid grammar include (but are certainly not limited to)Īn Outcast In Another World (Subtitle: Is 'Insanity' A Racial Trait?)ĭungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: The Hunting Grounds I'm comparing it to the other stories I read on RR, almost all of which have I plucked from trending, or suggestions from this sub, or from authors on RR plugging other stories. I'm a bit sick of people falsely claiming that I'm comparing AH to professional quality publishing. I just don't get how this story is suggested by RR as one of the most popular current stories.Įdit 1: Some of you in this sub have a major attitude problem. Descriptions are unclear, the odd grammar makes things confusing sometimes. Well, above average amature level? (Edit: this was unfair and rude of me to say, I generally stick to trending stories on RR, which of course are generally going to have some of the best writing on the site. Dose SOMETHING gripping happen? Does the writing ever go from below average amature level to. The story, system, and characters are OK, but the grammar is driving me nuts and the quality of the writing is. This declaration guides hooks’ understanding towards love as a rich and generative force. Perched on her kitchen wall, the words “ The search for love continues even in the face of great odds” stand in bright colours. 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