Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a simile from Emily Nussbaum… Here’s one of the reasons I read The New Yorker each week. It allows me to learn about things I would never in a million […]
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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 simile from Margaret Talbot… My kids introduced me to young adult videographer and writer John Green about four years ago. I found his Vlog Brothers videos, which he prepares
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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 simile from Kim Echlin. Going on holiday, for me, is all about reading. Why then, did I go out of town a few weeks ago with no books 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 a simile from Helen Oyeyemi…. I’m not a superstitious person, except when it comes to reading. I was standing in a bookstore on Galiano Island last weekend and the
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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 a simile from Jonathan Letham…. I read the 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham on the strength of a radio interview I heard with him. I
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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 a smart metaphor from a Margaret Talbot piece in the New Yorker. When my husband and I finish with our New Yorkers, we pass them along to a
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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 the figurative language of Elizabeth Gilbert. I was not ferocious fan of Elizabeth Gilbert’s signature book Eat, Pray Love. But I admired its (much less popular) sequel,
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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 some figurative language employed by Colum McCann. I read the Colum McCann novel Let the Great World Spin more than seven months ago. It took me
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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 simile from David Leavitt. I read my first David Leavitt novel, The Lost Language of Cranes, more than 20 years ago and I can still remember
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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 metaphor from author Elizabeth Bard. I was standing at the public library, idly flipping through books on the shelves when my fingers exerted their willpower and
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