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This book was seriously over-hyped

Funny You Should Ask by Elisa Sussman

July 7, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books I Already Own 15-word review: Chani reunites with actor Gabe, the man she wrote about ten years ago. Sparks fly. Official book summary: Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she’s in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she’s hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker–her forever celebrity crush, the object of her fantasies, the background photo on her phone–who’s also just been cast as the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, dual timelines, Elisa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask, Hollywood, Malin, movie stars, Writers

Malin's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR15 passport, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, dual timelines, Elisa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask, Hollywood, Malin, movie stars, Writers ·
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Am I Too Dumb for this Book?

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

July 21, 2022 by Ale Leave a Comment

Crystalclear listened to the audio version of Mr. Fox and wasn’t sure how she felt about it, but it’s speculative-leaning and maybe reading the actual book would be a different experience, so she suggested it to me. While I do think it was better to read it than to listen to it (Oyeyemi does a lot with fonts, blank space, and paragraph structures that make way more sense looking at it than listening to it), I also am not totally sure how I felt about Mr. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing

Ale's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing ·
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Surprisingly Approachable Writing Information

The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler

June 26, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

In many self-help writing books and seminars, The Writer’s Journey appears again and again as a reference. After reading many dry and analytical structure books, I was pleasantly surprised at how readable this book was. It has a very conversational and relatable style, and I didn’t feel as if I was reading a class lecture or being talked down to. It discusses the various structures and explains how to fulfill each of the twelve steps of the writing “journey.” It includes familiar stages such as […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: christopher Vogler, writer's journey, Writers

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: christopher Vogler, writer's journey, Writers ·
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I always had a soft spot for the ol’ spook

Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? by Jim Gigliotti

January 11, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Once you recommend one book in the Who Was series (Who Was, Who Is, even What Is) you have pretty much said everything you need about them. They are fun, simple, and while might not get “down and dirty” you do find a little dust here and there. I tend to like the books about people over the “things” or events (though the Ice Age was interesting as it showed that we are still learning about it, even though it seems like something that is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: American authors, authors, Baltimore, Boston, E. A. Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Jim Gigliotti, The Raven, Tim Foley, Writers

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: American authors, authors, Baltimore, Boston, E. A. Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Jim Gigliotti, The Raven, Tim Foley, Writers ·
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The Plot of The Plot is a Very Good Plot

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

July 9, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

Who owns a story? A plot? That is the core issue of this novel. Jacob Finch Bonnen is a struggling writer who has fallen into teaching creative writings in MFA programs after publishing two novels. The first was well received and landed him on a list of new and noteworthy authors, and his second basically confirmed his place in the obscurity that can only be experienced by the once-great.  During a low-residency MFA program, he meets a student who changes his life. Evan Parker is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #writing, authors, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Korelitz, MFA, The Plot, Writers

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #writing, authors, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Korelitz, MFA, The Plot, Writers ·
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