Reading a text critically is very different from reading a novel or newspaper article casually. Critical reading is something that many students learn during their academic years. It is an important skill to have because it allows you to understand and evaluate what...
Writing is difficult and to fully author something interesting and fascinating takes a lot of work, dedication and time. Almost anyone can write an essay that follows a basic structure. So, what truly makes an essay stand out amongst the rest? How do you improve your...
From Wilkie Collins to Kazuo Ishiguro: What Is An Unreliable Narrator? Authors ranging from Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) to Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca) have utilised the literary device of unreliable narration. First coined by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction,...
Whenever I read a new novel, I always ask myself 3 questions that helps me synthesise and pick up the key points in the book. This is called active reading, which means that I am actively trying to summarise and memorise what the book is trying to teach me. Active...
At the start of this week, I gave the first five of my top ten suggestions for great reads this year. Now here are the others… The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway ‘Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and...
Last spring, we took a look at the best books to read in 2020 – from sensation fiction classics such as Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White to newer outings like Sally Rooney’s Bildungsroman, Normal People. A year on, we’re going to pick up where we left off and...
