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About Books Sold Here

On this first day of a New Year, I'm letting you know more about the select, hand-picked books in the Books and Bread store and my side-bar lists from Amazon.com here. 

You might visit out of curiosity about what's new or to buy once or again. The book sales include all of Amazon's assurances about deliveries, tracking, and such.

The books fit one or more of the following categories:

• Books I have read and liked a lot

• Books recommended to me, but I've not yet read them

• Books published this year, last year, or a few or many years before

• Books I am adding every week 

• Book selections intentionally limited with links to goodies that allow expanding your searches for authors, titles, soap, or any other Amazon-related product. 

My selection is hand-picked, so you might discover books you've not heard of, yet with stories you'd value, while at the same time getting to Amazon. 

When I add one or more titles every week to each category, I put the latest addition in the front positions so you can immediately see what has been added. 

If you find what you want here and buy through my links, you add a little bit to the coffers that help here and elsewhere online. I appreciate that! 

Wishing you a wonderful year of reading, whether you get Books and Bread books or books from your public library, local bookshop, or on loan from a friend.

Enjoy!

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Personal Narrative is personal and First-person Narrative is fictionally so

There is a need to clear up any confusion about the difference between a personal narrative and a first-person narrative.

     Personal narrative usually refers to a true story or recounting of events, giving form and interpretation about one's personal experience and perspectives on it. Personal narratives are nonfiction, also called memoir or autobiography (when the story covers the life, not one central time of life).  The one who experienced the events is telling the story, a personal story of immense personal proportions, enough to push the writer to tell it. One of my favorites is the very experienced and illustrious writer, now deceased, Eudora Welty, whose works are a remarkable legacy. Her personal narrative is her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings.

     First-person narrative usually refers to the perspective of the teller of a story told as fiction. The observer and/or participant of the novel, for example, is telling the story. The Sense of an Ending is fiction written in first person. I cannot comment further, not having read it. Maybe I will soon. You can read about in on Amazon.com, where there are numerous reviews. 

     Otherwise, fiction requires a straight narrative told by  the "hidden" speaker, the writer. One follows words to follow multiple characters and events. Unlike the first-person, there are few limitations on time and place and characters involved.

     Some fiction writers show the main character's perspective in straight narrative, telling the character's thoughts and impressions. After all, the writer knows the character. Other character perspectives can be shown, in one book or story, usually in separate chapters or sections.

Copyright (c)2011 Jean Purcell and Opinari Writers. Permission to quote or use with attribution.






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