novels

I adore a good historical mystery. There’s something intriguing about pondering alternative possibilities of long ago events. For like minded bibliophilic sleuths, here are five of Christian Pelusi’s favorites.

Please do share your favorite unsolved puzzle novels if you got ‘em; I’m always looking.

What's it like to find yourself used as a character in someone else's novel? It’s a bit of a tricky situation, and the best thing to do, says David Jenkins—to whom it has now happened twice—is to not make friends with writers. But if you do, there are steps you can take, as these others have.

Readers want novels, so short story writers become novelists. Then along comes the movement to save the short story. But with the short story writers becoming novelists, the novel becomes an enormous short story, or a series of organized, interrelated short stories. So perhaps it’s the traditional novel that’s in danger here.

Charles Dickens none could rival him in prodigious output except for Hawthorne, of course. This site lists each chapter of the book all claim to have read but none, seriously, has. Take your time, read on line.

Anthony Burgess claimed that novels can be placed in one of two categories. The first concern themselves with literary conventions of plot and character, while the second focus on form and narrative. Can we really pigeonhole novels into one of these two highly confining categories? I think not.

hello everyone! If you enjoy thrillers, then you will enjoy my latest novel 'BLUE." An excerpt from it can be found at www.elaineballiet.com

if you enjoy it please spread the word!

read on and have a great day! elaine :)

A round-up of blog posts from bloggers around the world, on novels of a variety of genres.

In his new collection, Milan Kundera argues that the special virtue of the novel lays in its ability to part the "magic curtain, woven of legends" that hangs between us and the ordinary world.