Is it fair to write a review about a book on writing reviews? Perhaps not, but I will attempt the feat nonetheless. In this work, British author Celia Brayfield offers her readers wisdom and experiences from her career of writing arts reviews for periodicals. (She has since moved on to writing full books.) She spends first eight of the ten chapters sharing the rules of the road for writing arts reviews. She fills in these…
by Mayra Calvani and Anne K. EdwardsTwilight Times BooksCopyright (c) 2008ISBN13: 9781933353227Page Count: 190 pagesGenre: Non-fiction, reference Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of quality of book reviews on Amazon.com? So many “love it” or “hate it” comments, but so little who tell you why this book meant so much to them… I desire to change that in my writing, so I bought this book to learn to write book reviews better. Mayra…
How To Write a Simple Book Review: It’s easier than you think by Allyson R. Abbott My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked up this book in an attempt to master the art of writing book reviews further. This is a hobby of mine, and I like to practice it in combination with my “day job” of computer programming. This “indie” author provides an introduction to book reviewing. It reads conversationally – in a…
You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins My rating: 0 of 5 stars This book is a short introduction into the mindset and practices that writers today can succeed with. It places a principle that writers are mainly designed to write. Nonetheless, there are also other marketing, technology, and networking skills that can help writers, like me, to succeed financially in their ventures. Goins takes the position opposite of Hemingway and stereotype that writers ought…
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway My rating: 0 of 5 stars This memoir, published posthumously, covers Hemingway’s early days in Paris, right after he decided to leave journalism to become a writer of fiction. He was married, a father, constantly writing, friends with some very intelligent and very successful writers (Gertrude Stein and Scott Fitzgerald), and – to use his words – “very poor and very happy.” In this series of short essays, he…
by Gerald M. WeinbergCopyright (c) 2011 Gerry Weinberg has a PhD in communications and has written around 60 books on various topics, mostly having to do with computer programming. As a glorified computer programmer and an aspiring writer, this Weinberg book on his methodology for writing seems appealing. His basic take runs through writing from the heart. He uses the analogy for nineteen of twenty chapters in this book of craftsperson building a wall with…