September 20, 2018
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Changing a few words in your conversation could change the way you think, says Mel Schwartz in his article Change a Word, Change Your Life. The words we need to change are not big words in the vocabulary- not nouns or adjectives … Continue reading
September 13, 2018
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I stumbled on an essay by Prasanta Chakravarty that deals with a relevant topic today — that of freedom of expression. Philosophers understood that persecution of free speech was a given and Leo Strauss published a book titled Persecution and the … Continue reading
September 6, 2018
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I guess I’m late to the party but here’s a book deal that everyone’s talking about. It’s for a book called Help Me! by Marriane Power. Her proposition is unique – she has a weakness for self-help books and so … Continue reading
August 30, 2018
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Have you ever felt that the quality of your reading has suffered because you read books on your iPad or smartphone? Well, there is a difference in reading a print book and a PDF or an epub and what’s different … Continue reading
August 23, 2018
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I stumbled upon an article called The Difficulties of Writing a Cross-Border Memoir in Today’s World by Jean Guerrero, author of a cross-border memoir called Crux. She talks about her Mexican immigrant father and how he spent his life negotiating … Continue reading
August 16, 2018
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I haven’t been brave enough to even attempt reading Ulysses as I know that it will be impossible to negotiate the enigmatic terrain that this famous book presents. Here is the story of a man who did. John Kidd was … Continue reading
August 9, 2018
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Usually, in books, non-English words are italicized but this practice is being questioned more rigorously. When the book is in English, a foreign spelling seems jarring, almost like a typo. But now more and more authors are questioning the wisdom … Continue reading
August 2, 2018
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Good writing is not only in the grammar; it’s also in the telling, in the rhythm of it. After all, literature began as song, then poem; it was the stuff that bards voiced. There’s even scientific evidence that reading silently … Continue reading
July 26, 2018
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We’ve talked about cultural appropriation before. In this article, there are two views about it- you could go wrong while representing the other, so don’t or in other words censorship. You could also try to represent the other and become … Continue reading
July 19, 2018
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I stumbled across two stories on autofiction, the new genre that is becoming a staple on everyone’s TBR list. If you fancy a craftily curated memoir, you are a fan of autofiction, the novel where the author uses his or … Continue reading