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📚 Book Review: “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
📚 Book Review: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr I just finished reading "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, and I must say, it's an absolute masterpiece! 🌟✨ This captivating novel takes place during World War II and follows the lives of two...
How Can Morning Pages Help You Regain Control of Your Life?
Link to Original Document In our chaotic and busy lives, it can often feel like we have lost control of our thoughts and emotions. The constant stream of distractions and responsibilities can leave us feeling overwhelmed and anxious. However, there is a simple and...
Ultimate Slice of Life Books – Book 3 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection.The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York...
Ultimate Slice of Life books List – Book 2 – Ulysses – James Joyce
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920. Sylvia Beach published the entire work in Paris on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is...
Ultimate List of Slice of Life Books – 1: Catcher in the Rye
Follow @authormanik, like, and forward for the ultimate list of "Slice of Life" books. These are award-winning books that critics and readers have acclaimed. Book 1: The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye is an American novel by J. D. Salinger that was partially...
Book Review – Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is the slice-of-life narration of four weeks of Clay's life. Clay is back from his school on vacation to his hometown of Los Angeles. He is part of the artistic elite, the kids of movie directors and actors, kids who drive Porsches and Cadillacs of...
Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch is truly a Dickensian novel, as many people have already observed. It is the odyssey of Theo, his coming of age story, and his meeting many oddball characters throughout his life. As in The Secret History, the plot is not the mainstay here, but it is not...
Book Review – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" is slow burn as slow burn can be. The characters develop extremely slowly, over pages of back story, descriptions of peculiarities, seeming trivial incidents that do not mean anything, but they add up to something meaningful in the...
Movies for writers and other creatives
Writerly life (Creative life in general) Capote : A movie that explores the time in life of Truman Capote when he wrote “In cold blood. Bonus is a glimpse in the success of Harper Lee, who was Capote’s childhood friend.The Angel at My Table : The movie is about the...