Figurative language

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 Michael Lewis…. Many readers know Michael Lewis (pictured above) from his ultra-successful book The Big Short, about the 2008 financial crisis. (It was turned into an equally […]

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 metaphors from Emma Donoghue…. I am a fan of the writing of Emma Donoghue, pictured above. The Irish-Canadian writer achieved significant fame in 2010 for her book Room, which

Reading time: Just over 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 Meredith Hall… I  had never before heard of author Meredith Hall, a writer and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. I wish

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 Raven Leilani… A 2020 debut novel by writer Raven Leilani, Luster, received significant attention at its publishing. It earned praise in the New York Times,

Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Tana French… I don’t usually read mysteries. But if more people wrote like Tana French, I would. Sometimes described as, “the First Lady of Irish Crime,”

Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from James Nestor…. James Nestor (pictured above) is an American journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside Magazine, The New York Times and The Atlantic. But

Reading time: Just over 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 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk… Named as the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk (pictured above) has been described

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 Ocean Vuong…. Ocean Vuong  is a young Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist, who was born on a rice farm in Ho Chi Minh City. Named

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes 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 Aminatta Forna…. Aminatta Forna (pictured above) was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent parts of her childhood in

Reading time: Less than 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 Brit Bennett…. Brit Bennett (pictured above) was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from Stanford University. Later, she earned her MFA in