Tag: charles dickens
When I was in high school, I actually wasn’t a bookworm. (I trust you to keep that secret.) I actually found it very difficult to sit down and read …
We’ve all become used to using emojis as an unofficial second language in texting–they’re so cute and funny! But Kristina Semenova, creator of the Vaikon emoji book series, is puting …
Jodi Trask
January 1, 2017
Autobiography, Book Lists, Charles Dickens, Crime, Crime Fiction, Drama, Historical Fiction, History, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stephen King
Some of the best stories are those of escape. You can’t help but root for the protagonist as they take in their situation and never give up until they are free. …
Literary inspiration takes many forms: William Wordsworth found it in nature; Samuel Taylor Coleridge found it in a draught of laudanum; Paul Bowles found it in Tangiers. But for …
We all know how it goes, and we’ve all seen it done in hundreds of ways: the stingy Ebenezer Scrooge is surprised one Christmas Eve by coming face to …
Christmas is the perfect time to open up a classic holiday story that you’ve been meaning to read for what seems like centuries. Recently, I picked up Charles Dickens …
Do you have $3.85 million? May I have it, please? Fine. In that case, how about a mansion that once served as Charles Dickens’s summer home? That price includes …
Some of my favorite short stories and novels are written from the point of view of a child. Authors who have the ability to think like a child, and …
Eleanor Hicks
November 12, 2016
Book Lists, Charles Dickens, Classics, Crime Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, George R.R. Martin, Horror, J.K. Rowling, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, WTF, Young Adult
Death comes for us all, including our favorite book characters. Sometimes, those fictional deaths are heartbreaking. Othertimes, they’re deserved. And sometimes…well, sometimes they’re just plain weird. And kind of …
The mind behind David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Little Dorrit, and a few dozen more, Charles Dickens was a fascinating man as well as a fascinating author. One might …
Patrick Stewart contains multitudes. “All of these people already exist inside me. It doesn’t matter how unspeakable they are, how unpleasant. They are there, and you have to find all …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be neither a student nor a lover of literature without at least once reading (and completing) a Dickens novel. This …
When we read a book, how much thought do we put into the author behind it? It didn’t just appear from a vacuum. Someone created it. And because a …
A week ago I was enjoying brunch with an old friend when, out of the blue, she asked, “What do great writers – you know like Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens – …
