metaphor

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 metaphor from Jack Hitt. I started reading the New York Times on my iPhone a few months ago. I love it!  It’s relatively inexpensive ($3.75/week). […]

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 metaphor from Calvin Trillin… I can no longer remember the first time I tasted fresh mozzarella but I think I was about 25. It was

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

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,

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

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 Lauren Collins. My husband is the tennis fan in our family. I didn’t even know the name Novak Djokovic until I read Lauren Collins’

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 metaphor from poet and novelist Jane Urquhart. I admire the writing of Jane Urquhart, even though I don’t like it very much. I’ve read three

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 metaphor from Adam Gopnik. I’m not sure I care enough about the Beatles to want to read a three-volume history about them, (frankly, I’m more

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about an extended metaphor from Tabatha Southey. A friend and I have been sharing our admiration for Canadian journalist Tabatha Southey. A Saturday columnist for the Globe and

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 Maile Meloy. Some writers are so productive with figurative language that I view them as veritable “metaphor factories.” Maile Meloy is one of those