Thursday, October 2, 2025

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“The Devil You Know” (1) by Freida McFadden: Her first novel, which was based on her experience as a practicing medical doctor before she be...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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“My Friends” (post 1) by Fredrik Backman: Teenage Protagonist Louisa’s Two Personalities Share Her Brain “Louisa is a teenager, the best kin...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

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“Broken Country” by Clare Leslie Hall: Author’s Creative Mind Since Childhood “How quick I have become used to my double life” (1, p. 195). ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

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“Magic Hour” by Kristin Hannah: Author thinks in terms of Multiple Personality “She needed to force a confrontation between the two Alices—t...
Monday, September 15, 2025

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“The Vegetarian” by Han Kang, winner of both Booker and Nobel Prizes Introduction: This very short novel didn’t hold my interest, so I’ll j...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

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“The Forrest for the Trees: an Editor’s Advice to Writers” (1, 2) by Betsy Lerner “Most writers appear neurotic; the truth is, we don’t know...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

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“Fox” (post 1) a novel by Joyce Carol Oates: Engaging Vocabulary Front Flap (1): “beguiles” “hypnotic” “magnetically diabolical” “multiple p...
Monday, September 8, 2025

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“Manhattan Beach” by Jennifer Egan: Protagonist gets advice in the form of an italicized voice in her head “Have you any brothers?” Tabatha ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

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“The Seducer’s Diary” by Søren Kierkegaard: In the Foreword, Novelist John Updike cites a psychological cause for Kierkegaard’s Multiple Per...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

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Q. What makes Finnegans Wake (1) , the novel by James Joyce, difficult to read (1,Wikipedia)? A. “In this journal article (2), I propose a c...
Monday, September 1, 2025

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Both Helen Oyeyemi (yesterday’s post) and Joyce Carol Oates (1) have   complex multiplicity                                                 ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

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  “A New New Me” by Helen Oyeyemi: “She Has 7 Selves, and They All Have a Story” (1) Comment: Now, even The New York Times has noticed that ...
Monday, August 25, 2025

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“Altered” Book 1 of 6 in the Justin Wright Suspense Series by Rob Kaufman Frank is a new patient of psychiatrist Justin Wright, who asks Fra...
Friday, August 22, 2025

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“The Little Paris Bookshop” (post 2) by Nina George (1) Letters are miniature books. A letter to a man from his lover would surely be read i...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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“The Little Paris Bookshop” a novel by Nina George (post 1): Who said or thought the novel’s first line, wrote it in italics, and what did t...

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Hello blog visitor : Thousands of people from many countries have visited this blog since 2013, because they, too, wondered if novelists “c...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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" Missing Pieces” by Joy Fielding: Mirror Symptom of Multiple Personality “Actually I surprise myself sometimes. I’ll be all dressed up...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

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Wisdom for Writers by Isabel Allende “When you feel the story is beginning to pick up rhythm—the characters are shaping up, you can see them...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

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  AI Overview of the use of the term “Twisty” “The term "twisty" has become a popular marketing buzzword, particularly in the thri...