How to write like tolstoy6/29/2023 ![]() The whole book is a super-charged recommended reading list.Īs well as fiction, Cohen cites letters from editors to authors, manuscripts, anecdotes, essays, conversations with authors, interview transcripts, and critical reviews. In fact, reading this book is like standing in a literary hailstorm. The chapter on dialogue has changed the way I read and appreciate fiction, as has the analysis of the different effects achieved by direct speech, reported speech, and free indirect speech.Ĭohen’s arsenal of examples is vast: Aristotle, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Frost, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, Tom Stoppard, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, Salman Rushdie, and so many more. ![]() He discusses what works and what doesn’t, presenting numerous examples to illustrate. Psst! It’s not actually an analysis of Leo Tolstoy.Ĭohen addresses ten literary topics: beginnings and endings, dialogue, creating characters, irony, rhythm, sex, point of view, plagiarism, and revision. It put me in such a fever of love for literature. ![]() My favourite book of the year so far is Richard Cohen’s How to Write Like Tolstoy, published in 2016. ![]()
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Planetside by michael mammay6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The storytelling involved a lot of fast-paced investigation and Intel gathering more than action sequences they never fail to keep me guessing and intrigued. Although Planetside is labeled as a military sci-fi, the execution of the storyline was more mystery oriented think of it as a mystery detective story in a sci-fi novel. ![]() The plot in Planetside revolves around Colonel Butler, a war hero in semi-retirement as he received a mission from an old and powerful friend to go back to a war zone in order to find a high councilor’s son who went MIA. Seriously, Harper Voyager and reviewers really should’ve advertised this book more, it’s a fantastic debut and if it weren’t for my friend, Niki Hawkes, I wouldn’t have heard about this gem at all. I’m actually surprised that so few people I know (close to zero) are talking about Planetside this year. Planetside was a very impressive military sci-fi debut. ![]() Thrawn book trilogy6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Fortunately, they can honor the spirit of Zahn's trilogy even if the details differ. That means it will be impossible for Lucasfilm to do a straight adaptation, because there are simply too many contradictions. Of course, the Thrawn Trilogy features Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo, and their arcs in the books are totally different to those now established in the canon - especially in Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy. ![]() Related: How Old The Mandalorian's Characters Are During The Original Trilogy Intriguingly, since then the evidence seems to be building that Lucasfilm Television intend to adapt the Thrawn Trilogy itself for The Mandalorian era, with an Imperial resurgence five years after Return of the Jedi and Ahsoka believing Thrawn is associated with it. ![]() Grand Admiral Thrawn soon made his debut in Star Wars Rebels, while Zahn was hired once again to spell out the Grand Admiral's origins and time with the Empire in a best-selling series of novels. Although Disney branded the old Expanded Universe non-canon after it acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, dubbing them " Legends," they wasted no time in absorbing some of the best bits of the EU. Thrawn is key to the future of Star Wars once again. ![]() Author klein this changes everything6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia. She is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a former Miliband Fellow at the LSE. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. It's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them. This Changes Everything argues that the deep changes required should not be viewed as punishments to fear, but as a kind of gift. ![]() The documentary inspired by the book, and directed by Avi Lewis, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. Nominated for multiple awards, it won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. This Changes Everything was an instant New York Times bestseller and is being translated into over 25 languages. Despite mounting scientific evidence, denialism is surging in many wealthy countries, and extreme fossil-fuel extraction gathers pace. We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. ![]() From Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change ![]() How to date when you hate men book6/29/2023 ![]() It is an invitation not to oblige oneself to frequent men or compromise with them. Monstrograph has denied that the book is an incitement of hatred, and called the book a 'feminist and iconoclastic book' that 'defends misandry as a way of making room for sisterhood'.Ĭolline Pierre, one of the founders of the micro-publisher run by volunteers, said 'The title is provocative but the language is measured. ![]() The 25-year-old activist's book argues that 'anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path, if it is allowed to be expressed', and explores whether women 'have good reason to hate men'. In an email, Zurmély told Monstrograph - the book's publisher - that 'incitement to hatred on the grounds of gender is a criminal offence', and asked the publisher to pull the book from publication 'on pain of criminal prosecution'. ![]() Sales of Pauline Harmange's ' Moi les hommes, je les déteste' skyrocketed after Ralph Zurmély, a special adviser to France's ministry for gender equality, called it an 'ode to misandry. ![]() A French government official's attempt to ban a feminist book called 'I Hate Men' appears to have backfired after it sold out. ![]() Rhinoceros ionesco francais6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Berenger seems to not see it, but the Waitress, the Grocer, the Housewife, the Grocer’s Wife, and Jean all stand and point at it.Ī Logician, the Old Gentleman, and the Housewife arrive and remark on the rhinoceros. The two discuss where Berenger was last night as a rhinoceros races down the street. Jean insists that everyone has to get used to it. Desperately, Berenger says that he can’t stand working a normal schedule and needs to drink to relax. Jean lists all the ways that Berenger needs to work on his appearance and declares that he’s ashamed to be Berenger’s friend. ![]() Taking issue with Berenger’s clothes, Jean gives him an extra tie, a comb, and a mirror. He makes fun of Berenger for wanting to drink so early in the day, especially when Berenger is hung over. Berenger is unkempt, while Jean wears a neat suit and chastises Berenger for being late. ![]() One sunny Sunday, Berenger and Jean meet at a café. ![]() Jonah the simple wild6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() She braves the roaming wildlife, the odd daylight hours, the exorbitant prices, and even the occasional-dear God-outhouse, all for the chance to connect with her father: a man who, despite his many faults, she can’t help but care for. But when her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born. ![]() Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. Calla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. ![]() City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. ![]() ![]() Morisson exists in some form since Serge sees him. What are we to make of Morisson’s charm? An unfair gift of the gods (thereby hinting earlier at Morisson’s association with the supernatural) granted by the universe (assuming Morisson existed) just to foil Pownall? If Morisson does exist is he some kind of “double” for Pownall, Pownall’s better self? The idea of that is planted when Pownall tells us his life began when he met Morisson. How to explain no record of Pownall playing?ĭid Pownall slip over into that “dim borderland” through his maniacal chess studies? Was he especially susceptible because of his forsaking all human attachments? I'm rather surprised that Serge doesn't provide us proof that Morisson existed so even that may be in doubt. ![]() ![]() And how many stories feature haunting by the spirit of chess, a game whose study may draw you too far into the "dim borderland"? I liked this one a lot with what I took to be it's combination of a "standard" ghost story, sort of a frustrating doppelganger (shades of Poe's "William Wilson"), and sort of a Jungian shadow self. ![]() Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Snyder a walking encyclopedia of arresting facts and conclusive figures. . . Snyder offers a powerful reminder that the true killing fields of the Holocaust were in German-occupied territories in the east. . . . ![]() At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Īssiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.Īmericans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. ![]() ![]() She’s struggled with gaming addiction before, so she keeps this part of her life from her dad and her IRL friends, because she can’t stand the idea of this being taken away from her. She stays up late, ignoring her homework and checking her phone constantly. ![]() So she spends even more time in her roleplay world. I won’t spoil anything, but she hardly gets in touch with Cass at all after that. She was a central pillar of Cass’s life-and she just drives off after a five minute conversation. Her mother was the most important person her life, the one who overdoes holidays and ropes her and her dad into a million traditions, the one who was there for her in all her lowest moments. I feel like I was more angry at her than Cass was. She immediately gets up and drives off to another state. She met someone online, and she’s moving to be with him and divorcing Cass’s dad. ![]() Then, at the very beginning of the book, her mom sits her down to have a conversation. Needless to say, I cared a lot about Cass and felt protective of her while reading.Ĭass has escaped into the world of roleplaying to avoid her parents’ fighting. ![]() ![]() I was a fat nerdy queer teen who was obsessed with a book series and roleplayed in an online community! She’s a chronic overthinker, I’m a chronic overthinker. I’m almost glad this wasn’t around when I was a teen, because I’m not sure I could handle reading it then!Ĭass is a fat, nerdy queer teenager who is obsessed with a book series and roleplays as one of the characters in an online community. ![]() |