Tag: loved
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Telling our own stories
Book Review: Killer Stories explores how the stories we use to explain our actions can become our worlds.
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African Fairy tale
A compelling hero telling a simple but compelling tale with a bittersweet ending.
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Playing the Game
A gorgeous book that explores not just an ill-fated journey but reflects on what the expedition and its leader can teach us about living our best lives. Favourite.
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Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone
A sweet story about a young woman making her way into the world and learning that hiding in stories only gets you so far.
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Superheros for Grown-Ups
This is so much more than just a superhero action story.
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Don’t be Old and Poor
This is the best money book I have ever read
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How to Survive Continental Rifting
The Best Fantasy I have read? Incredible Worldbuilding and imaginative story structure come together to explore some powerful social issues
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The Power of Kindness
An exploration of Kindness set again trauma and abuse
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Can the Hero’s journey be reversed?
Reflections on: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters My writing teachers are big fans of the Hero’s Journey story structure. It is something that with a little prodding you can see just about anywhere and many books use this same basic structure. The protagonist starts in one place emotionally (intellectually) and by the end of…
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Dual Timelines – now I get it
Reflections: The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-Anne Richards I hate dual timeline books. There is a ridiculous absurdity of WW2 stories featuring a dual timeline, all of which are remarkably similar – its so common its probably its own genre at this point. And I have never seen the point of it. It gives…