Showing posts with label Ursula Le Guin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ursula Le Guin. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

The literary echo chamber: Are we reading in circles?

The Literary Echo Chamber: Are We All Reading the Same Books?
I love a good book recommendation. Who doesn’t? But lately, I’ve started to wonder: are we all reading the same five novels, over and over again?


Log on to BookTok and you’ll find Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing, Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo passed around like holy scripture. 


Over on Bookstagram, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow or Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library are often perched artfully next to a flat white and some autumnal leaves. If you’re deep into literary fiction, chances are someone has handed you Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, or the ever-expanding crop of novels compared to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

Friday, 7 February 2025

7 books that will help you write your novel


When I started writing, I honestly didn’t believe I could learn anything. I just sat down at my laptop, put words on the page, and wrote. No courses, advice or anything. 

In retrospect, that sounds crazy; why would you start a new project without reading about it?