Tag: american literature
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Embrace Winter with ‘The Snow Child’: A Heartfelt Review

For the first reading challenge of 2026, I decided to read a book that truly felt like winter. Not just with a significant increase in snowfall, but that gave you a sense of real cold. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey captures that feeling and invokes so many more.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: A Positive Perspective

These stories are a reflection of their time and place. Despite never visiting California and not being alive when these stories were originally written, I did not feel out of place as a reader. Everything on the page comes alive.
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salt. A Positive Perspective

The one thing that poetry in all of its forms has in common is the feeling that it invokes. Poetry makes you feel something. Whether you understand the purpose of the poem or whether you are the audience that connects with it in the strongest way, it still invokes feelings.