For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] I believe it is ultimately up to the reader to decide what makes a great historical fiction novel but here are some things that I, personally, love to see. 1. A completely new and original point of view. As a reader of historical novels myself, I prefer the ones that look at a familiar … Read more
[ad_1] Sometimes the separation between the lived experiences of neighbors can be just as profound as if they grew up on different planets. Privilege, opportunity, and access can be shifted by the smallest geographic space, a city street, or a country’s border. Few understand this truth better than the protagonist of Micaiah Johnson’s debut novel, … Read more
[ad_1] Until someone becomes a parent, they have no idea how little time parents actually get for themselves in a day. I get asked from time to time how to find time to read as a parent. The question usually goes something like this: I know that reading to my kids is one of the … Read more
[ad_1] There are so many ways to get “lost in translation”, as evidenced by the frequent and varied use of that expression. We drop it into conversation. “Something got lost in translation,” we say, meaning everything from the very literal to the very metaphorical. It is the title of books and articles, of a movie. … Read more
[ad_1] Halfway through Akwaeke Emezi’s captivating second adult novel The Death of Vivek Oji, I had a thought of how much the novel reminded me of one of my most favourite works of fiction, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It was only when I reached the end of this novel that I learned in the … Read more
[ad_1] Keltie Knight is an Emmy Award-winning television personality and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s also a co-host on The LadyGang podcast with Jac Vanek and Becca Tobin—if you haven’t listened yet, you need to. Knight and the girls co-authored Act Like a Lady, which is a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically … Read more
[ad_1] I hitchhiked over twenty thousand miles as a teenager, mostly in the United States, some in Yugoslavia before the war and in Turkey. Despite this, I have always struggled to write about “the road.” I find that something in the process of writing about it, violates the experience itself. There is the metaphorical road, a … Read more
[ad_1] As the United States creeps toward November elections in a tumultuous year that has upended the nation’s healthcare establishment, education system, economy, and social fabric, poet and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell brings us Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump. A collection of Howell’s conversations with celebrated … Read more
[ad_1] As coronavirus locked down cities across the country and work from home orders liberated office workers from daily commutes, many people suddenly found themselves returning, either temporarily or permanently, to the suburbs so many of them had fled. Jason Diamond’s new book, The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs, arrives just in time to … Read more
[ad_1] Humanity has settled space and left Earth to its destruction. Connor and Ines have traveled back to Earth on a preservation project to find the human “jacks” that sacrificed their bodies to prop up the United States’s failing infrastructure. But the jacks hold a secret, one Connor would rather keep hidden than risk the … Read more