My book rating: 3 stars. Dorothy Sayers was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University. This sole fact made me pick up this book. The utmost respect I had for a woman, who lived a century ago, drove me to read it till the end. It is…
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WATCHING YOU: LISA JEWELL- a book worth reading?
Warning: Spoilers ahead. My book rating: 3.5 stars This book is all about the frightful inhumanities that lurk beneath the so-called normal humans we encounter every day. This entire book pays homage to the art of observation. The setting and backgrounds have been described in much detail that the entire village of Melville is vividly…
The Will
Hemingway’s imitation: Hemingway had a narrative technique called the iceberg theory. This simple writing style reveals minimal detail on the surface, with deeper meaning hiding below. Since there are more dialogues than actions in his stories, he doesn’t describe the mood of the scene and lets the audience guess who is speaking and their tone…
IMAGE TO IMAGINATION
In a creative writing class I attended, the students were asked to pick an image randomly from a stack full of pictures of strangers. Our task was to imagine a story with that character as the protagonist. I received the portrait of an elderly woman. Something like this picture: My story: Violet looked at her…
IndulgeTheMind 