Post by account_disabled on Dec 25, 2023 4:29:26 GMT
Appointment with what I consider the best of the blog for the past month. This time I selected seven items, but I would have liked to include more. They are almost all articles about writing, except a couple about books. I haven't posted any stories this month, even though I'm posting them on Sundays. Don't make up words Many writers and columnists have a tendency to invent new words, even if they were members of the Accademia della Crusca. The not too poetic license is inserted in quotation marks, to warn the reader that there exists an uncommon term in the Italian language. Continue reading Don't make up words .
Taboo books Have you ever bought a book and aroused wonder in those around you? Or having a book at home and having received criticism from those who have seen it? Or that you told someone you read a certain book and were criticized? Continue reading Taboo Books . Writing is also inventing This article is an anecdote that dates back a long time ago, when I went to Special Data high school, to classical high school. My essays have always been a mess. The common characteristic was being skinny and stretched. And the average rating was 4. Continue reading Writing is also inventing . The caste of books I spoke some time ago about the secret code of books, that sort of virus that infected writers and publishers, causing dozens of encoded books to explode in bookshops.
From The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown to The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw which has yet to be released, a review of 50 books that talk about this or that code. Continue reading The Book Caste . The first writer in history It is not clear who the first writer in history was. In the 19th century, twelve Shin-eqi-unninni tablets, on the Epic of Gilgamesh, in Akkadian cuneiform script, were found by Austen Henry Layard. The tablets were found damaged in the ruins of the library of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria (669-633 BC), which was destroyed by the Persians in 612 BC Continue reading The first writer in history . Frankenstein and Dracula A famous gothic novel, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which, together with Bram Stoker's Dracula, represents a cornerstone of horror and gothic literature.
Taboo books Have you ever bought a book and aroused wonder in those around you? Or having a book at home and having received criticism from those who have seen it? Or that you told someone you read a certain book and were criticized? Continue reading Taboo Books . Writing is also inventing This article is an anecdote that dates back a long time ago, when I went to Special Data high school, to classical high school. My essays have always been a mess. The common characteristic was being skinny and stretched. And the average rating was 4. Continue reading Writing is also inventing . The caste of books I spoke some time ago about the secret code of books, that sort of virus that infected writers and publishers, causing dozens of encoded books to explode in bookshops.
From The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown to The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw which has yet to be released, a review of 50 books that talk about this or that code. Continue reading The Book Caste . The first writer in history It is not clear who the first writer in history was. In the 19th century, twelve Shin-eqi-unninni tablets, on the Epic of Gilgamesh, in Akkadian cuneiform script, were found by Austen Henry Layard. The tablets were found damaged in the ruins of the library of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria (669-633 BC), which was destroyed by the Persians in 612 BC Continue reading The first writer in history . Frankenstein and Dracula A famous gothic novel, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which, together with Bram Stoker's Dracula, represents a cornerstone of horror and gothic literature.