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Scary Title Alert: The Discipline Of Reading Fiction
Readers get inoculated by “fun” fiction, and no longer approach stories as vehicles of ideas, shown not told. When we as Christians do look for meaning, we are primarily looking for a Christ figure and a picture of redemption. We rarely dig deeper.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Books To Love
I recently talked with a friend about a book I was reading and enjoying. The question came up: why was I enjoying it? What was it about this book that made it a satisfying reading experience?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Preference V. Weakness
Reader differences go far beyond genre or gender. Each person brings his or her own preferences, prejudices, expectations, beliefs, experiences, and assumptions to the story.
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Keanan Brand
Why Aren’t Adults More Inclined To Read Fantasy?
George MacDonald, a contemporary and friend of Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain, wrote fairy tales not only for children, but also for adults, and surprisingly, from our 21st century context, his work sold in the thousands of copies throughout Europe and also here in the U.S.
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Dean Hardy
Reading, Ratings, And Parental Guidance
Rating systems deliver the job of discernment into the hands of someone removed from the consumer. Movie ratings are often used as an example of what works when it comes to a quick and easy assessment of stories. However, I doubt seriously if any person Hollywood charges to rate a movie does so based on a Christian worldview.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Point And Purpose Of Reading Fiction
We frequently discuss whether or not we should expose ourselves to “gritty” stories about the garbage dump of life. Must we wallow in the mud, or can we choose instead to read stories that evoke truth and beauty? A tangential issue that might help with that question is this: are truthful stories beautiful (artistic) simply because of their truth?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Picking Books
More and more, readers are faced with Choice. But how do we filter through the thousands of books to find the ones we actually want to read? Spec Faith does not sell books, so this isn’t one stop shopping. It is, however, the place for readers of Christian speculative fiction. But we need your help.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading? What Christian speculative titles have you read in the last year or two? Have you written a review of those books, either here at Spec Faith as a comment to the title in our library or for one of the online outlets?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Poll Time For Readers
We’ve run some polls from time to time aimed primarily at writers, but this one is for readers (of which writers are a subset — or ought to be.) Where do you get your books?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Not A Waste Of Time
I wasted my childhood. Also the first half of my teenage years. At least, I thought I did. After all, practically all I did for all those years was read fiction.
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Rachel Starr Thomson
Readers And Writers
Special thanks to all those who participated in Spec Faith’s Shredding, Round Two. I couldn’t help but think as I read through what everyone had to say, how vital it is for writers to hear from readers, not just other writers.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Good And Bad Of The Reading Experience
If fiction is a model for life which readers create in collaboration with writers, then it seems to me readers are being transformed by writers into whatever writers believe to be true.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Psychological Study Of Creativity – Or, You Experience What You Read
Stories matter. Any reader can tell you this. We cry because a beloved old yeller dog, which never actually existed, dies. We laugh at the pig’s tail applied to the imaginary greedy Dudley Dursley. We cheer when the fictitious Aslan […]
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Please Stop Writing Fantasy Novels
Andrew Peterson: If I loathe most fantasy, why did I write The Wingfeather Saga?
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Andrew Peterson
What Readers Are Reading
My conclusion in all this is that once again, story proves to trump all. A good story matters more to readers than artistic writing or genre or even the reputation of the author.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
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