Last month, our poll for favorite plots ended with a tie between “Overcoming the Monster” and “The Quest.” Upon reflection, these are two of the most likely candidates for adventure storylines, as they hold a lot of potential for excitement and tension. When our characters overcome the monster, their journey often includes an inner struggle…
Something new for me that, I’ll admit, took me out of my typical comfort zone for books–but in a good and necessary way. A deeply intricate, imaginative story that, though based in fantasy, still has much to say about our realities.
— C.M.
Here, the art of lay-low…
I’m sure many of you already know where I’m headed with this. It’s probably the same affect a number of us have experienced on and off for the past few months. As creatives, we sort of live in a hostile environment. Unless you’re a professional inheritor of mommy and daddy’s money (which, let’s face it:…
English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon, is known to have coined the phrase: “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” I’m of the impression that he was speaking more to the philosophic/scientific side of reading—in that some books are valuable for scanning and sifting through…