Added by: didexit | Karma: 324.22 | Black Hole | 26 June 2012
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On Writing Well
Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those "future archaeologists" most often found "stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization").
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Joe and his friend Blue tackle the preschool basics of circles, rectangles, even trapezoids while sorting through Blue's hints as to where she would like most to see more shapes in "Shape Searchers." If the clues cash register, cart, and food don't add up for you, the kid chorus will help you out. The second episode finds the pair in their backyard making a "portrait of pals," a painting of their many-colored friends. But they only have primary colors, so in order to paint Orange Kitten, for instance, they have to mix red and yellow.
In her fourth book, Bliss does not disappoint her readers. Instructions follow a gallery of full-color photographs showcasing the more than 25 knitted garments. Intended for the experienced stitcher, directions include graphs and charts, plus both British and U.S. knitting measurements and information. The best features of the book are the unexpected twists in design: for instance, a shawl collar placed on an Aran cardigan, a tartan-patterned baby romper, and aboriginal-like motifs used for a warm pullover.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 27 December 2009
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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Roseand, for once, the comparison is apt.
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words?
