Month: July 2014

On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King
Autobiography · Book Review · Essay

On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King

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I recently downloaded a digital edition of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft after reading the hardcover more than a decade ago. I planned on skimming my ebook edition, looking for a few pointers, but I was immediately drawn in by Big Steve’s affable style, and I wound up re-reading the book in its… Continue reading On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King

Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
Book Review · Literary Fiction · Novels · Supernatural Thriller

Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

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Reading Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates is like slipping into a fever dream. It’s all dark winter mood and brooding atmosphere in this novel.    Bellefleur covers three generations of the Bellefleur family over the course of more than 200 years. Ms. Oates builds this long, sprawling novel with long, sprawling sentences filled with parenthetical asides and a… Continue reading Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates