🇺🇸-born, 🇬🇧-based, novelist. New Novel Coming Soon: "Capture The Cause."
How about history? The internal combustion engine on which we now rely simply cannot be viewed in isolation without any thought given to what had been before it. It is not as if it had not existed we would all dwell in immaculate urban pedestrianized New Yorker-style cartoon locales where everyone is cycling and doing yoga and going to therapy.
By the way, I swear if you ever publish or "mine" from one of my emails here, I will murder you...
How I do wish we could just say to that type: "You know, please don't read my books, because they are too difficult for you..."
Nothing in that "interview" with the duchess was more upsetting, I felt, really, than her stating she had wished not to live any longer.
Well, here we are again at the crossroads of life.
If you support him, I apologize. But this is my considered opinion after four years of him. I do not write this lightly.
I have not been this depressed since the afternoon of September 11, 2001; and I know I am not alone in that.
Endings are, uh, I think, reasonably important to us as readers. I am of course interested in what will happen (or why would I be reading the book in the first place?), but I don't really want to know how a book ends... until I get to the end.
Occasionally the American featured celebrity tracing his/her family tree comes across as - much as I hate to say this - worryingly clueless about wider history and lives lived prior to the present.
Back to the actual point to the day: Kids having access to books. A love of reading is one of the best habits one can instill in a child. I saw my parents regularly reading for relaxation.
Recently I turned down an interview request from a US podcaster because I felt that I could not do full justice to her suggested main subject. I didn't think it would be fair talking with her merely for the sake of just talking - even if doing that might in some ways perhaps have been usefully self-promotional.
I advise anyone now to be cautious, very cautious, on Twitter. The only reason I have not deleted my account is because I do like engaging carefully with decent people when possible. And many readers now expect authors to have Twitter accounts.
If you have had experiences such as my family has had (and yours may have had too), you learn that there are those times that nothing can be done by others to stop self-destruction.
It is no secret that this US president evokes wildly negative feelings in many. [Full disclosure: I did not vote for him.]
R. J. Nello 