Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 6 August 2011
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Gardner's sympathetic On Becoming a Novelist is the novelist's ultimate comfort food--better than macaroni and cheese, better than chocolate. Gardner, a fiction writer himself (Grendel), knows in his bones the desperate questioning of a writer who's not sure he's up to the task. He recognizes the validation that comes with being published, just as he believes that "for a true novel there is generally no substitute for slow, slow baking."
A second legal thriller featuring female attorney Nina Reilly, who finds herself with private and family traumas, as well as becoming involved with the defence of a person who she is almost certain committed dreadful crimes.
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl—a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his empire and forever shape the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international power struggle that led to this world-changing event, illuminating an era that has long been overshadowed by myth.
Small enough to take anywhere, yet packed with more than 300 brain-bending challenges! Pit your wits against logic-teasers, matchstick quizzes, number problems, riddles, geometry puzzles, visual conundrums, word wonders, picture problems, mazes, and much more. Test your memory, imagination, math skills, powers of observation and deductive reasoning, and other mental talents by becoming a detective, a magician, an architect, and a creative thinker. Play with dominoes, unscramble letters, uncover inconsistencies, and solve mysteries. Plenty of amusing illustrations add to the fun.
The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end."Fiction Writer's Workshop, 2nd Edition" is designed to help writers foster a strong sense of independence, of being and thinking on their own, of becoming both disciplined and self-evaluative (not self-critical) in order to accomplish for themselves what others seek out in classroom groups.
