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Reading, writing, and other things

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  • The problem of simile

    Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose”. Similes are useful as a descriptive shortcut. They rely on…

  • Thoughts on reading: The Turn of the Screw

    Last year, there was a television adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and thus there followed much discussion of its horror and psychological twists. Well, what…

  • Thoughts on reading: A Game of Thrones

    A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin is book one of A Song of Ice and Fire which features in my top ten favourite books of all time. This is…

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