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 Laura Shapiro… As you may have sensed from some of my previous blog entries, I’m a big believer in home cooking. Thus, when […]
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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 food writer Michael Pollan. My family of origin is famous for its obsession with food. Many guests have told us we’re the only people
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Reading time: About 1.5 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a New Yorker article on the driverless car written by Burkhard Bilger. I’d heard of cars that parked themselves. But I hadn’t heard of driverless cars. Well,
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Reading time: About 1 minute A great way to improve your writing is to emulate the work of others. That’s why, every week, I present a sentence that I’d happily imitate. I comment today on one written by novelist Cathy Marie Buchanan. I picked up the novel The Painted Girls by
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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 simile from novelist Stephen Gauer. This weekend I read the book Hold Me Now, by Stephen Gauer. A crime fiction novel — not a genre
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I’ve encountered. I write today about a simile from the TV show Chopped. I try not to watch too much television but I have one very guilty pleasure: the TV program, Chopped. A cooking show
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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 1940 simile from Edward R. Murrow. When my husband and I were in Washington, DC earlier this month (in the rain, with all the public
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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 simile by Canadian author Don Gillmor. When I heard the title of the latest novel by Don Gillmor, Mount Pleasant, I immediately wanted to read
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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 the late Lucy Grealy. I first learned about the late poet Lucy Grealy several years ago when reading Ann Patchet’s book, Truth and
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. Today I present a simile from Canadian writer Will Ferguson. I often start my day with a pitchfork, cleaning out my spam folder. Too often, the junk mails come from
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