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The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

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I’ve had The View from the Cheap Seats on my TBR for a long time. For once, the university library had a book I actually wanted to read, so I checked it out while waiting for my local library request to come in. Gaiman’s collected nonfiction rides the gamut from his introductions to many novels, to speeches given at award ceremonies and conventions and interviews from his career as a journalist, as well as musings on writing and recollections on the people and books that have […]

Frustrating.

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

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Best for: Those who like to collect books of speeches. In a nutshell: Collection of Thunberg’s speeches, delivered throughout 2018 and 2019 Worth quoting: “You can’t simply make up your own facts, just because you don’t like what you hear.” “Every time we make a decision we should ask ourselves: how will this decision affect that [emission] curve?” Why I chose it: I recently subscribed to the Books That Matter box, and this was included in November’s delivery. Review: How does one review a collection […]

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life

At the Same Time by Susan Sontag

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Before I read this book I had a lot of name recognition for Susan Sontag (thank you liberal arts degree) but wasn’t that familiar with her actual writing.  At the Same Time is a collection of her essays and speeches, published posthumously in 2007, and comprising three categories: 1) essays about obscure literature; 2) essays about 9/11; and 3) speeches Sontag gave on varied themes (literature, courage, etc.). Given that the major unifying thread for this collection is loose- essay or speech- my opinions on […]

You make the art that only you can make. You tell the stories only you can tell.

The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman just gets it, man. This collection of miscellaneous non-fiction writings consists of various speeches, articles, essays, and introductions, and what it turns out to be is sort of a hodge-podge portrait of Gaiman as a writer and reader. Not every essay was of interest to me, and I did skip some of them that covered books I’d never read (and didn’t want spoiled . . . also, the one about Dogsbody Neil tells the reader to skip straight up and then come back […]



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