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Stream of Thought As Literary Device:The Novel as Case Study

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I watch a lot of films. A lot more than I read books. Because television shows rarely attract me, I have a very active Netflix account. I use it nearly every night, and I get to choose my gems as … Continued

Book Reviews: Escape Into Reality

Nature as Main Character in Fiction: 1. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Most likely a crime thriller or a murder mystery, right? That’s how some reviews have perceived this novel, including one put out as “the Amazon review” of this Amazon Best Book of August 2019. Maybe advertising the book this way helps sell more copies. But I […]

War Heroes: The Nightingale and The Paris Architect

I’m not particularly enamored of war fiction though my number one favorite these past few years is one (Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See). But an audiobook of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale was available to borrow on Libby and I was curious about a novel that merited a 4.8 rating from […]