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Most of us know Ann Patchett for her greatest masterpiece, Bel Canto (at least according to popular opinion), but the truth is that so far, she had a very long and eventful literary career, and stretching even further, an eventful life in general. Deciding to share at least some of the wonders she experienced during her time on Earth, Patchett decided to write an autobiographical book, and it is titled This is the Story of a Happy Marriage .

If there is one way of setting a story which has always managed to catch the audience’s attention, it’s when it all (or most of it at least) takes place in a single location, let it be a room, an office, or perhaps even an entire building. Naturally, developing a story without being able to change the setting is more than problematic from a writer’s point of view, which is why so few have managed to successfully pull it off.

Many of us have wondered at one point or another what it would be like to undertake a trip in the insect-infested Amazon forest. Many of us imagine the exotic flora with a number of majestic and vividly-colored animals to be found at every turn. However, most of us do not stop to wonder as to the psychological impact such a trip would have one us, especially considering that we would be in unknown territory with there being hundreds of things out there which can kill us.