Margaret Atwood likes to challenge her readers with stories that pull the rug from under their feet. She did it in Oryx and Crake (the wonderful and depressing), and she does it perfectly in The Handmaid’s Tale.
After months of hard work, I am proud to present Writer’s Block’s new site. What’s the big deal? What is new? Which bus gets to the central station? All answers in the post below.
Does any film based on a book is necessarily not as good as the original? Are there books that are suitable for the transfer to the big screen and some that should be buried within their cover? And what the hell does Colin Firth has to do with it?
Are you a victim of the disease that has given so many people reading glasses throughout the ages? Test yourself and find out, are you a true bookworm?
In one of the best novels he ever wrote, Neil Gaiman is examining our childhood memories and their darkest secrets in a both touching and eerie way.
Jonathan Ames is trying to be P. G. Wodehouse, but no matter how much he represses it, he is still just a pale shadow of the real thing.
J. K. Rowling proves beyond any doubt that she’s got more than just one trick up her sleeve with a hyper-realistic novel that strikes the sleepy suburbs of the United Kingdom in the guts.
“The Stand” is one of Stephen King’s best works. But you know what they say about his good books, you don’t really want to read them.
As he tours around the remote corners of the United States, Neil Gaiman is presenting his darkest book so far, does so in the special way only he can.
Everybody knows it. Once someone borrows one of your books, you will most likely never see it again. After a couple of weeks, you will forget about it and then it is gone.
On the couch, in bed, at the café, at the bar, while waiting at the doctor’s office, in the small garden by the house. For me, reading is like breathing. Sometimes even more.
It’s been years since I wrote anything, if you don’t consider paychecks to my ex-wife. Writer’s block or plain laziness, the result is all the same. Zilch.
Writer’s block is a condition in which an author loses the ability to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. It can happen to a writer at any point in time, irrespective of their career success. – Wikipedia
