Tag: writing
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June 17, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
My first contact with Nyota, the "owner" of the OOOS group was when she contacted me to add tags to my reviews. I have to admit that her request kinda irritated me, because race of . . . more
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March 13, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
In The Art of Subtext , Minneapolis novelist Charles Baxter has gone well beyond other books on the writing of prose fiction. Baxter believes that fictional techniques work when they are rooted in basic . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . . more
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . . more
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November 01, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
(3/5 stars)
The farther I got, the more obvious the conclusion that I read this too late in life. Had I read this as a teenager or in college I could have romanticized . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
(3/5 stars)
The next edition the publisher prints could use the tag line: If you loved "The Road" you'll love "The Painted Bird!" . . . more
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October 24, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
The Space Between
He shuts the door with a thud.
His sixteen-year girth and power precede him.
He does few things lightly.
We have chewed the morning’s fat ever so briefly,
Over muffins . . . more
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October 15, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
(4/5 stars)
There are two ways of perceiving Cervantes's "Don Quixote." In the modern interpretation Don Quixote is an idealistic dreamer, . . . more
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October 23, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
(5/5 stars)
There are two words to describe this book: weird and wonderful. You could substitute "quirky" for weird if you want, because . . . more
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October 29, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
(4/5 stars)
This is one of those books that may be a challenge for some readers because the narrative is like . . . more
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April 16, 2008 02:32 AM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials. Today, April 16, is OPEN.
Schedule:
April 23rd: OPEN.
April 30th: GET READY FOR MAY DAY - articles about May Day - Spring OR COMMUNIST May Day may . . . more
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February 23, 2008 01:44 AM EST --
Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Live Today . . . And They're Just Getting Started
Learn more about this book throughout February in the Bright . . . more
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March 02, 2008 12:03 PM EST --
This flash fiction story won first prize in the Write Around the Block Valentine Flash Fiction Contest. The first line was provided and had to be used to begin the story.
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December 03, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
This is another one of those books I'd long heard about and meant to get around to reading at some point. Finally . . . more
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June 11, 2008 12:20 AM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials.
I have not stopped doing author bios/lit reviews, but I am on hiatus for the time being.
Due to the heat, I am opting for something less . . . more
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May 18, 2008 07:38 AM EDT --
You remember Meredith McGuire - the 28-year-old doctoral student in cultural anthropology who won the First Chapters Romance Writing Contest on Gather last fall.
Here is the announcement . . . more
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March 31, 2008 06:52 PM EDT --
Meredith McGuire is a doctoral student and the grand prize winner of the Gather First Chapters Romance Writing Competition that ended last October with her manuscript, The Shadow's . . . more
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October 19, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
(2/5 stars)
Coming from a blue-collar neighborhood, I've never had much tolerance for the Victorian-style books dealing with balls and courting . . . more
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May 11, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
Joan Anderson, author of The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself, kicked off Borders' writing workshops last Thursday, May 8 th , at Borders' Boston's flagship store on School Street . . . more
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