๐โ๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ is a captivating read, and the things that took place in Abigailโs life made me look forward to turning each page. The author’s vivid descriptions of seemingly insignificant details brought them to vibrant life.
This thought-provoking literary fiction book follows the lives of a dysfunctional Italian familyโespecially Donna Greco and her brother Vincentโfrom 1970 to 2012. The book leaves you with this question: When I look back over my life, what pictures will I see?
What is poetry? This art form isnโt willing to be defined, labeled, or nailed down. Its words are the chiseled marble of language. It is a paint-spattered canvas, but the poet uses words instead of paint, and you are the canvas.
All of the stories in ๐โ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐ are about love. Some are afraid to love. Others love yet stay apart.Some only pretend to love, yet in many cases, love continues even after death. Not everyone is honest when it comes to love; some set out only to deceive. And never forget that the love of a dog, manโs best friend, is so very special.
An autobiography is a history of a person’s life written or told by that person. What kind of autobiography would you write about your life? Would it be serious, telling of all the great things you have accomplished? Would it be sad, telling of all the losses you had suffered and all the hard times…
I recently finished my sixth draft of a new novel, which takes place in the Iraq war. Iโm ready to show it to agents as I look for new representation. At the recent AWP Conference in Los Angeles, I attended a panel called โAgents on Agenting,โ where afterward I asked Noah Ballard, an agent at…
Relationships are at the center of each of these stories. They will make you think about your own life, the people that you know, and what each of them might encounter in their day-to-day lives. Each of these stories is anย extremely real slice of life. They are very well-written, and the characters are so genuine…
โLiteraryโ is a type of book many people admire, but itโs not a genre that people necessarily seek. Itโs even hard to call it a genre the way โmystery,โ โromance,โ and โparanormalโ might be. Books that appear on Amazonโs literary bestseller list, for example, reveal how widely defined โliteraryโ really is. For instance, this week,…
Love Will Make You Drink and Gamble, Stay Out Late at Night is a book of short stories.ย Each of the stories is about relationships.ย They tell about the mistakes made, words misunderstood, and the resulting misadventures had.ย All of the stories revolve around life in Santa Barbara. This book has twelve short stories.ย One…
