I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard, or read, someone say something like what the author of the March 6/2024 BBC article says of García Márquez, that he was "was best known for pioneering the magical realist style of writing." That all started with his first and, in the English-speaking world, … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
Rescuing Fiction | The Last Interview and Other Conversations | Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Though it made him famous and brought him financial independence, Márquez said more than once that he'd grown to hate the book.
Rescuing Fiction | Rescuing the Future| Mark Elf | my choice for the most unforgettable paragraph ever written
...... I have killed seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-nine enemies of the Sixth German Reich for sure, and I have..........
Rescuing Fiction | the quotable Birdcatcher | Are there any people more misunderstood than those who are solitary?
..... he and I stared at one another. Two men who despised one other, both knowing how easy murder was in the midst of combat.....
Rescuing Fiction | Dombey & Son | Charles Dickens the magician
.......this is a King Lear story, but with a different ending.
Rescuing Fiction | Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes | the antidote for introverts and those on the spectrum who long to enter the social world
The problem for those of us who love sincerely, is that we so often fail, while those more callous and calculating so often succeed.
Book Review | State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny | five star spy novel
......a story that should interest everyone, for it's on our horizon already.
Rescuing Fiction | Charles Dickens and Nicholas Nickleby and the book that was to come
This week I finished the astonishing novel Nicholas Nickleby.
Alan Conrad 