Backyard Organic Gardening: Easily and Effortlessly Create Your Own Organic Gardening Oasis for Optimal Health and Nutrition by Prescott Marshall
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Russian author Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev.
For more visit:
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/melancholic-narratives-bicentennial-ivan-turgenev/
Not My Review: Red Rising (Book 3) – Morning Star by Pierce Brown
2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The links below are to articles reporting on the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, including the finalists and winner.
For more visit:
– https://lithub.com/meet-the-six-finalists-for-the-2018-baillie-gifford-prize/
– https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/11/us-author-serhii-plokhy-wins-2018-baillie-gifford-prize-nonfiction/
Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
The link below is to an article reporting on the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri, for her novel The City of Good Death. This is a US prize.
For more visit:
https://lithub.com/announcing-the-winner-of-restless-books-new-immigrant-writing-prize-2/
Rules for Novelists
The link below is to a list of 10 rules for novelists – which should provoke ‘some thoughts.’
For more visit:
https://lithub.com/jonathan-franzens-10-rules-for-novelists/
Ngaio Marsh
The link below is to an article that takes a look at New Zealand’s crime fiction writer Ngaio Marsh.
For more visit:
https://crimereads.com/ngaio-marsh-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year: Toxic
The links below are to articles reflecting on the Oxford Dictionaries 2018 Word of the Year – toxic.
For more visit:
– https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2018
– https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668041894/toxic-is-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-2018
– https://bookriot.com/2018/11/15/toxic-2018-oxford-english-dictionary-word/
Puns
The link below is to an article that provides a defence of puns.
For more visit:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/15/in-defense-of-puns/
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