Figurative language

Reading time: About 2 mins. I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from John Banville…. John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer,  and screenwriter. He has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International […]

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about images from Edward Carey… If anyone recommends a book of historical fiction to me, I’ll take a close look and probably read it. This is what happened

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 Hope Jahren… Hope Jahren is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests. But she

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from Jennifer Haigh…. The most recent novel by Jennifer Haigh takes on the topic of abortion. And as the New York Times puts it, ” it

Reading time: I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from Sarah Polley. You may know Sarah Polley as a TV star, famous for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary‘s books. Subsequently

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 Virginia Feito… I can no longer remember who recommended the first novel of Virginia Feito to me. Raised in Madrid and Paris,

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Sarah Ruhl…. Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. I can’t remember what led me to pick up her memoir, Smile:

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 Valerie Perrin… The author Valerie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, France. Her first novel The Forgotten Sunday , which was

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 Matt Haig…. I’m not usually a fan of what’s variously described as magical realism, speculative fiction or fantasy. I try

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Ross Douthat… I always enjoy a good medical mystery story and the true-to-life tale of Ross Douthat certainly falls into that category. Struck