It is the task of the writer to enthrall his or her readers, to evoke a sense of place or occasion so powerfully, so successfully, that readers visualize themselves as actually being there. So it is that over the years many have felt themselves part of the overflowing champagne scene of The Great Gatsby, or…
Month: August 2016
Back To School: 11 Habits Of Booklovers At The Start Of The New Term (AmReading.com)
You knew it was coming. You had your summer reading list: the personal one, with its amazing contemporary titles you’ve absolutely devoured this holiday, but still have dozens left to go through; and the academic one, with the dry prose and difficult language, and intimidating page counts you’ve struggled to put a dent in, let…
7 Books For Reluctant And Dyslexic Readers That Make The Struggle Worthwhile (AmReading.com)
The school years are tough, no more so than if you’re diagnosed with dyslexia. The problem is many people assume reading is a natural trait for humans. In fact, talking or oral communication is our brain’s natural predisposition – reading is quite another thing and has no genetic basis. As The Yale Center For Dyslexia…
Tuesday Tunes – Poetry Through Music, #29, 2016
[Inspired by Dirk Maassen’s “Endless”:] Endless this feeling, held within precious as gems while fingers fly over keys – output of words of music of sensations wholly incommunicable by speech haunting her haunting him in absence diurnal. // Endless the promise between them eye to eye hand in hand skin to skin against a world foreign to…
Come Inside: 7 Books That Will Whisk You Away Into The Eccentric World Of The Circus (AmReading.com)
“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.” With these words of Walter Moer you have encapsulated the essence of life under the big top. There is a wonder about those who perform in and travel with the carnival, but there is a recognized…
19 Times Tumblr Understood Just How Stressful A Booklover’s Life Is (AmReading.com)
As my friends know, if you can’t find me in our designated meeting spot, there is a 99.9% certainty that I can be found – lost but happy – in the nearby bookstore. This is a source of many problems. Tumblr gets why […] [First Published at AmReading.com. Continue reading at:] http://www.amreading.com/2016/08/18/19-times-tumblr-understood-just-how-stressful-a-booklovers-life-is/
Love Wine? Take A Sip From The Top 5 Books For Budding Oenophiles (AmReading.com)
Wine is big business these days. Although people have been drinking the fermented grape juice for around 4,500 years, there has been a huge surge in popularity in recent years. It is a social drink, part of our culture. We drink it to celebrate, we drink it to wind down, we drink it in lieu…
Tuesday Tunes – Poetry Through Music, #28, 2016
[Image from Pinterest] [Inspired by Ólafur Arnalds’ “Raddir, ft. South Iceland Chamber Choir”:] Soul tears, raindrops from a storm internal. Hands out, palms up in supplication to this pain, she catches them, one by one. Single question, Why?, floods her eyes still further. To sky she looks next, gaze shifted to the cracked ceiling, heavens beyond perhaps;…
Comics Empower: An Online Comic Book Store For The Blind (AmReading.com)
It was a thought that came to Guy Hasson out of the blue: Why are there no comics for the blind? He’d been running New Worlds Comics for around eighteen months, had no blind or visually impaired friends or family, but was suddenly struck with the absurdity of the fact. Interviewed by Vice’s Robert Kingett…
Sunday Sonnet, #25, 2016
[Image from Pinterest] A walk at night, no torch, just light of moon to show the way. Chill calm of dark on skin, refreshing. She breathes in deep. Oh, so thin the divide between night and day; how soon sun reborn on the horizon is. Boon to know beyond her, there, in blacker, in denser…
Top 10 Books New Writers Should Read (AmReading.com)
In his latest book, Release the Bats, DBC Pierre (otherwise known as Peter Finlay) revisited the process of writing a novel from scratch. As he shared with The Guardian readers earlier this month, he undertook the journey not solely for himself, but in order to share his discoveries with others who might take it upon…
The Key Party – A Poetic Continuance
[Image from Pinterest] Kate walked in, quaking from nerves. She’d never done this before, but he wanted it. Wanted one of them – the other wives. Why not? he’d pleaded. Perfectly normal thing to do. Why not? she thought miserably. Where to start? The women were gorgeous, granted. And yet the men… She could feel them,…
