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The Bad, Bad Book
Booking Through Thursday Challenge
for November 5, 2009:
“Life is too short to read bad books.” Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?
There are two types of “bad” books to me. The first type is the kind of book where the writing is [...]
The Makings of a Good Autobiography (Hint: A Beginning, Middle and End)
Booking Through Thursday Challenge
for November 5, 2009:
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)?
Ah, the mighty biography. Biographies are by nature difficult creatures. There are hundreds of different ways to tell a good story in fiction, but the biography is a complex beast. For a biography, [...]
Words That Ignite a Book Purchase
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 29, 2009:
What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately?
Irresistible Words:
Broken
Redemption
Haunting
Defies
Fights
Eccentric
Reclaim
Struggle
Book Description that I love:
The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that’s precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us [...]
Uncomfortable Subject Matter
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 22, 2009:
If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be?
Last month, I read and reviewed The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine. I found the book deeply disturbing to say the least. The book [...]
Hurdling Time