Noir fans, like me, have endless theories and stances and opinions about the genre, enough to make me wonder if noir fiction isn’t unique the nebulousness of its definition. (Fitting, no?)
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If you think you don’t like horror novels and short stories, you may not have the full perspective on horror fiction. Hear me out—especially if you like thriller and suspense books.
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If many countries have a holiday to honor laborers, why isn’t it an international holiday celebrated on the same day?
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Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m a huge book nerd who also writes fiction. Whether or not you write, if you love reading, you’ll love these podcasts.
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A way for bookstores to build an additional revenue stream, increase and reinforce their customer bases, and attract customers and other members of the community more often.
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Frankly, we really should apply the principles of healthy eating—what we put into our bodies—to what we put on our bodies.
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While bad people make mistakes, good people make them, too. Treating good people like bad people in the face of an error harms them (and us).
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While people and organizations have aimed to reduce life friction as much as possible, we might just want to add back in some of it for our own health and wellbeing.
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SAD or just the season? it seems unreasonable to assume that seasons don’t affect humans when they affect everything else. We live in the atmosphere, after all. Even when we sometimes wish we did not.
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Attentively warding off any tendencies toward creeping bad eating habits and keeping an eye out for “alone” turning into “lonely” mean, in my thinking, that eating alone has far greater benefits than it does risks.
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Seeking French and Swiss monsters? I went on a creature quest and uncovered one good mythical monster story from France and one from Switzerland. And I’m on the hunt for more!
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As the years pass, I’ve grown increasingly wary of people who tell me they never read fiction. And studies back me up as to the reasons why.
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I’ve noticed an interesting confluence of holidays celebrating their nation’s founding over the three countries where I focus most of my energy these days: France, Switzerland, and the United States.
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You’ll find all types of people in France, as you will in all countries and cultures. As blanket stereotypes, though, these haven’t proven true in my experience.
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I’ve done a bit of thinking recently on rituals and routines. The differences between the two, and the positives and negatives of both.
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Even the suggestion that you should not spend your time and energy on something without monetizing it significantly reduces the value of the activity.
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If you say “yes and” to everything presented, including projects and ideas and even opinions, you don’t protect your own values and wants and projects and visions.
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I want to read more novels about people who’ve gone through the stages after childhood, youth, and the twenties into full-on adulthood.
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