Simile

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 simile from Cristina Henriquez… I read The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (pictured above) several months ago and both the novel and its characters have remained with me, in my mind’s eye, […]

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 simile featuring US senator Bernie Sanders. I’m no expert on American politics but I read the New Yorker weekly and the New York Times (online) daily. As a result, I pick

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 simile from Eudora Welty…. Eudora Welty (1909—2001) was a prolific writer from the American South who wrote in many different genres, including novels, short stories, speeches and essays. She is most famous for

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 simile from Frances Itani. Frances Itani is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist who has published 14 books. Her 2012 title Remembering the Bones, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Award. Her 2004 novel Deafening has already won that award

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 simile from Yiyun Li.  I first heard about Chinese-American writer Yiyun Li and her book Kinder Than Solitude when I heard her interviewed on the CBC radio program, Writers and Company. Intrigued by the novel’s

Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about two similes from Lizzie Widdicombe… Call me naive, but I had never before heard of what’s called a Tough Mudder, which is a 10-to-12-mile obstacle race including fire pits, tightly enclosed spaces, mud baths 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 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 years otherwise know. For example: online

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 with his brother, Hank, absolutely

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 a mostly empty Kindle? I

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 novel Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen