Figurative language

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Sebastian Barry… Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who was named Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2019–2021 and who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize […]

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Shelby Van Pelt.  Author Shelby Van Pelt, pictured above, grabbed my attention when I learned she had written a novel with an octopus as a

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Dwight Garner… My two big hobbies are reading and cooking. So imagine my reaction when I heard about the subtitle of Dwight Garner‘s latest book. The main title

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Edward Chisholm… I first heard about writer Edward Chisholm on my favourite food podcast, Milk Street. Chisholm is an Englishman who graduated from the School of Oriental

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about some similes and metaphors from Michael Finkel… Michael Finkel knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 10. Unlike many writers, however, he was also athletic and after

Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Jessica Winter… An editor at The New Yorker, where she also writes about family and education, Jessica Winter is the author of the tremendous new novel The

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Sigrid Nunez…. Sigrid Nunez, pictured above, was only a moderately successful American fiction writer until she won the 2018 US National Book Award for Fiction for her

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from C Pam Zhang… C Pam Zhang is an American writer who was born in Beijing China and who moved to the US at the age of four.