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Tag Archives: Books
My definition of ‘literary novel’
Literary novel: a book which 200 (sometimes 2 dozen) people read and end up not liking, and which is forever after worthless on the secondhand market. [Exceptions to this rule constitute approximately 0.00001% of literary novels.]
Posted in Book Reviews, Writing
Tagged Affectations, Books, Definitions, Literary Novels, Literature, Secondhand Market
The perfect staircase is a staircase full of books!
Posted in Visual Arts
Tagged Bookcases, Books, Bookshelves, House Design, Interior Decoration
The world’s greatest thriller writer, Deon Meyer, talks about South Africa, series detectives and ‘7 Days’
South African thriller writer Deon Meyer on storytelling, credibility and how crime fiction relates to society I mostly follow the dictum “conflict is the mother of suspense”, so I’ll be looking at as many sources of conflict for the protagonists … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Writing
Tagged Books, Crime Fiction, Deon Meyer, Good Advice, South African Writers, Thrillers, Verisimilitude
Photograph of the day: A beautiful book by Hudson Taylor from the great age of British overseas missions
‘China’s Millions’ by J. Hudson Taylor (editor), London: Morgan & Scott, 1885
Posted in History, Visual Arts
Tagged Asia, Books, Boxer Rebellion, China, Chinese, Evangelism, Hudson Taylor, Missionaries, Missions
Writers’ quote of the day: George Orwell on the sheer unpleasantness of writing a book
‘Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.’ ~ George … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Quote of the Day, Writing
Tagged Books, George Orwell, Writers
Darrell Dow on fundamentalists, books and reading
Fundamentalists and books This isn’t to say that fundies don’t like books. Quite the opposite, I’ve never been in a fundamentalist pastor’s office that wasn’t crammed with books from top to bottom. Many fundamentalist houses have hundreds if not thousands … Continue reading
Posted in Fundamentalism
Tagged Books, Censorship, Fundamentalists, Louis L'Amour, Moralism, Paperbacks, Personal Libraries, Reading, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlet Letter
