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Getting Ready for a Book Launch: My Latest Novel

by evyjourney | posted in: Blog, Books, Shade Under the Mango Tree | 0

I’m getting ready for the book launch of my latest novel. Yes, I’ve finished it: my latest book, The Shade Under the Mango Tree. I started it more than two years ago but, in the middle of writing it, my … Continued

Cooking As High Art, Eating As Sensuous Experience And Food in Fiction

by evyjourney | posted in: A Writer's Life, Blog, Books, Love, life, small things, Sugar and spice and all those lies | 3

In the film Babette’s Feast, a highly-gifted chef schooled in cooking as high art escapes war-torn Paris. She finds herself living in gentle servitude to two good and pious but dour, nearly joyless, sisters. With no inkling who Babette is, … Continued

Book Reviews: Escape Into Reality

Affection Nurtured by Common Suffering: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The title is a line from a 17th-century poem that evokes the beauty and romance of Afghanistan. It seems to conflict with what happens in the story.

Nature as Main Character in Fiction: 2. <em>The Overstory</em>

The Overstory—I didn’t know for sure what the title alluded to when I first encountered this novel by Richard Powers. I interpreted it in terms of the usual conventions about books, especially fiction. I guessed “overstory” referred to an overarching theme, the most important one that subsumes some more obvious sub-themes. You, the reader, must […]