First, third, or anywhere in between. Every story has a perspective. Several of the novels I’ve recently read got me thinking about perspective as a whole and why authors choose which to use. There appears to be a trend for recent authors to try their hand at the story-within-a-story narrative. Name of the Wind, Blood Song, and…
Best of the Year, 2013
Mein Gott, a post! Boy, I haven’t posted in a damn long time. Somewhere over the past month and a half I seem to have lost my drive. I still love to read, just not at the voracious (not as voracious as many of you) pace that I had before. Maybe I started too hard or…
On Literature, Ratings, and Reviews
Literature, as a whole, is a very interesting entity. Pick a book on any site, be it Amazon or Goodreads or wherever else – you’ll see part of the spectrum that forms people’s varying opinions on said book. It could have very average, mediocre ratings – say a 3 or a 3.5 star rating on…