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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.”

Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

January 15, 2021 by sabian30 1 Comment

While a lot of writing self-help books are about the basic mechanics and rules of good writing, Mr. Bradbury’s Essays on Creativity are more inspirational. He discusses what he has learned in his fifty years of writing and kindly shares it with us. He doesn’t promote so much as show you the path he’s taken. Of course, since his writing is so stellar, it only makes sense that his How To book would also be well-written and interesting. While he doesn’t make checklists, I do, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, books about writing, Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Writing Fiction

sabian30's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, books about writing, Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Writing Fiction ·
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Nothing Slow About It

The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo

January 1, 2021 by sabian30 5 Comments

THE ART OF SLOW WRITING – Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity by Louise DeSalvo Of all the writing self-help books I’ve ingested recently, this one is probably the most helpful but the most badly named. It’s not about writing slowly at all. It’s about the tools a writer should be familiar with and possibly use to improve their craft. Nowhere does slowness enter into it unless it’s during the editing process at the end. I appreciate these writing books where the author is trying […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, DeSalvo, Louise DeSalvo, Self-help

sabian30's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, DeSalvo, Louise DeSalvo, Self-help ·
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“While I was killing him, I had to wipe my mouth with my sleeve every now and then because I couldn’t stop salivating.”

Mars by Asja Bakić

October 25, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Anything can become normal, if you continue to stick through it. War, murder, cults, doppelgängers, being deported to Mars- whatever world you are dropped into becomes your world. Asja Bakić is a master of normalcy in abnormal times and places. Her short story collection, Mars, is filled to the gills with the weird becoming common place. I was originally drawn to this collection for less than academic reasons: it is short and it has a pretty corner! I was looking to race through my Bingo card, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Asja Bakić, bosnia, Creepy, croatia, dark humor, dystopia, Green, International, jennifer zoble, magical realism, refugee experience, short read, the feminist press, translated lit, war

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:111 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #writing, Asja Bakić, bosnia, Creepy, croatia, dark humor, dystopia, Green, International, jennifer zoble, magical realism, refugee experience, short read, the feminist press, translated lit, war ·
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“There’s a particular feeling in your body when something goes right after a long time of things going wrong. It feels warm and sweet and loose.”

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

May 3, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Lily King is a magician. She takes an unassuming title like Writers and Lovers and crafts something beautiful, messy, and utterly captivating. Her last novel, 2014’s Euphoria, was my favorite read of the last decade- I have to admit that I was initially disappointed when Writers and Lovers was announced after the evocative fever of Euphoria.  A 30-something woman navigates creative struggle, debt, grief, and relationships? All I have to do is shout out of my front door and a line of people that fit the description […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Anxiety, Boston, creativity, criticism, debt, euphoria, grief, heartbreak, lily king, loss, Love, lust, service industry, success

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #writing, Anxiety, Boston, creativity, criticism, debt, euphoria, grief, heartbreak, lily king, loss, Love, lust, service industry, success ·
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Don’t Nix this one from your to read pile. #obviouspun

The Nix by Nathan Hill

April 14, 2020 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

As I saw the saw my Goodreads Reading challenge accusatorily tell me how many books I am behind right now (6!!) I panic searched for something I could do via audio while going on my many social distancing walks. This came up on my local library app as “available now” and a cursory search showed me that folks I like had it in their to read piles, so on I went. Once again, I found myself unknowingly entering a book set in Chicago (where I […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: #writing, audiobook, Nathan Hill, politics, The Nix

ardaigle's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: #writing, audiobook, Nathan Hill, politics, The Nix ·
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