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โWilliam Godwin
Succeed and Soarย seeks to lift hearts and spirits, awareness and humanity. Because books help fulfill that mission, this post offers three books of fiction I hope you’ll consider.
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Five Karat Soul
Five Karat Soulย , by James McBride, is a collection of six short stories,ย a soul food buffet of perspectives and experiences. One presents an antiquities dealer trying to pay a self-sacrificingย family a fortune. Another shares the lives of youths trying to form a band. The collection closes with a lion in a zoo sharing his experiences. The read was marvelous.
In this collection,ย James McBrideโa musician and National Book Award Winnerโdemonstrates an impressive craftsmanship so thatย Five Karat Soulย presents an entertaining and easy read, plus an education in how to write fine fiction. I learned a few things.
We are all completely beside ourselves
- Fowler has a substantial vocabulary, essential for writers. And she uses these head-scratcher, uncommon words [considered a no-no] while holding the reader, as with ‘tule fog’ in theย sample text.
- Fowler also time travels a lot, sometimes leaping decades on the same page. Seeing how she handles these transitions, sliding readers from her college years, to childhood to later life proves jumps back and forth in time can be done without confusing or losing readers.
The Guardianย wrote, โMany a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin’s lament about what mums and dads do to their kids. But if any other book has done it as exhilaratingly as the achingly funny, deeply serious heart-breaker that is Fowler’s 10th novel, and made it ring true for the whole of mankind, I’ve yet to read it. This is a moral comedy to shout about from the treetops.โย Full Review
An Unwanted Guest
When I chose Shari Lapenฬaโsย book at the library, the title intrigued, but I didnโt read summary. Didnโt know what to expect. The opening lines showed how important the description of setting is in establishing the storyโs tone and โforeshadowingโ whatโs to come. [see sample text]
I also enjoyed the novelโs Agatha Christie quality, evoking her ย Murder on the Orient Expressย andย Ten Little Indians.The who-dunnit reveal is delicious.
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