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 R.O. Kwon…. R. O. Kwon (pictured above) is an American novelist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Cerritos, California. […]
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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 metaphors from Stacia Pelletier…. The plot of the novel The Half Wives by American writer Stacia Pelletier (pictured above), did not sound promising to me. Set in late 19th century
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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 Canadian novelist David Chariandy…. A Canadian writer, who won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2017, David Chariandy (pictured above), grew up in Toronto and now lives and teaches in
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors and similes from Rachel Syme… A New York Times Magazine article by Rachel Syme about the movie A Star Is Born, had me ready to line up at the theatre.
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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 Jonathan Rosen… I have mixed feelings about a new memoir by Jonathan Rosen. On the one hand, I believe The Best Minds explores important societal questions about serious
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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 the masterful writer Eleanor Catton…. The New Zealand novelist and screenwriter Eleanor Catton is a phenomenon. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and
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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 Ian McEwan, I’m generally a big fan of the English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan and have written about him many times before. I didn’t like his latest
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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 JR Moehringer… John Joseph Moehringer, known by his pen name JR Moehringer, is an American novelist, journalist, and ghostwriter. In 2000, he won the
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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 Elizabeth Strout… Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is one of the best, most skillful fiction writers alive in the US today. Born in Portland, Maine, and raised in small towns
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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 the American writer Ann Napolitano… I’d heard all the buzz about a new novel by Ann Napolitano. Rave reviews. Selection by the Oprah book club. A feature
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