Polly Becker

Working on the novel. London by way of Chicago. Always reading and always writing. #WritingCommunity #Writing 📚 🇺🇦

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Three books, one rabbit hole: Death of an Airman, Studies in a Dying Culture and Homage to Catalonia. Just do not expect to stop there.
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A hundred years on, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd still feels audacious. Christie does not just hide the truth. She uses the reader’s assumptions against them. https://t.co/aXZFHX3V8q

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Messy female characters do not need to be redeemed, softened or explained. Sometimes they simply need to be read properly. https://t.co/i0DZAJb3J0

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Campus novels are rarely about education. They are about ambition, reinvention, class anxiety and badly behaved clever people. https://t.co/rpVswfY2EM

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The literary internet has changed how readers discover books, but it has also changed how they perform being readers. https://t.co/6ONXYdNtNg

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

The literary internet has changed how readers discover books, but it has also changed how they perform being readers. https://t.co/6ONXYdNtNg

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Sentences in popular books may be getting shorter, but that does not mean fiction is getting worse? depth. https://t.co/yRUnjHfYg7

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Sentences in popular books may be getting shorter, but that does not mean fiction is getting worse? depth. https://t.co/yRUnjHfYg7

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This post explores why *A Little Life* continues to divide readers, from its emotional intensity to the question of whether its bleakness feels profound, excessive or both.
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Why are unlikeable characters often the most compelling in fiction? From Yesteryear to Yellowface, a look at the messy, difficult people we cannot quite stop reading. https://t.co/JUKPGtQTJ9

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

Why are unlikeable characters often the most compelling in fiction? From Yesteryear to Yellowface, a look at the messy, difficult people we cannot quite stop reading. https://t.co/JUKPGtQTJ9

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

For anyone curious about where to go after Dostoevsky’s shorter works that have been big on BookToK, these are the top five Russian novels that matter most. https://t.co/SUxDK1ko8V

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From BookTok to blogs to Goodreads, the reader is back as tastemaker, but what happens when readers help decide which books rise, last, and matter. https://t.co/wE8PO80Zw8

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

From BookTok to blogs to Goodreads, the reader is back as tastemaker, but what happens when readers help decide which books rise, last, and matter. https://t.co/wE8PO80Zw8

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

Joan Didion is one of those writers people quote constantly, but the best lines do more than sound good. They reveal how she thought about place, memory, narrative, and survival. https://t.co/kZaMcpq791

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In a culture built on speed and skim-reading, serious fiction can feel less like a challenge and more like a relief. I’ve been thinking about that through Small Things Like These, Prophet Song, Orbital, and Gilead. https://t.co/QHHtbqrtBh

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

In a culture built on speed and skim-reading, serious fiction can feel less like a challenge and more like a relief. I’ve been thinking about that through Small Things Like These, Prophet Song, Orbital, and Gilead. https://t.co/QHHtbqrtBh

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Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally within a line.
But what makes a distinctive sentence in fiction?https://t.co/GZAFRrOVCA

[Polly Becker @PollyEBecker]

Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally within a line.
But what makes a distinctive sentence in fiction?https://t.co/GZAFRrOVCA

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Rereading isn’t laziness. It’s emotional intelligence in paperback form. The books we return to are little weather reports about what we need. New post: [link] #ComfortReads #Reading https://t.co/BAppCzkbWs