Review
Click the cover to see this on Thames and Hudson’s website.
This review was first published in Teach Secondary magazine. I’ve included it here because it meets some of the requirements of the English Programme of Study.
Read MoreApparently, the author of this book took on the gargantuan task of reading through 27,000 Marvel comics (which sounds exactly like the sort of job I’ve been looking for!).
Read MoreThe least sensible thing one can do in circumstance like this is to read stuff which has absolutely no bearing on any it.
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Most press releases are boring. Even worse, some are annoying. And the people who send them can be even more annoying.
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I also started to ponder: why the obsession throughout the book with belladonna?
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On 22 December 2015 I published a review of Help! For Writers, by Roy Peter Clark. I liked the book back then. Do I still like it now?
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Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t pick up the (fictitious) memoir of a 17 year-old girl….
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The stories in Great Adventurers are designed to help the reader believe that they can do it too, backed up by much more substantial evidence than vague and vacuous pronouncements like "You're wonderful, you can do anything."
Read MoreOne of the techniques employed by the Oulipo is known as N+7. This is where you take each noun, and replace it with a word that is seven words on in the dictionary. Of course, results vary according to what dictionary you use. The following article is an N+7 version of my review of the Penguin Book of Oulipo. Enjoy!
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