By Brenda Clough When he tried to plow through Pilgrim’s Progress Huckleberry Finn famously remarked that it was tough. Hah! He never read Boneland, the new novel by Alan Garner. Billed as a third book following the classic Weirdstone of … Continue reading
Daily Archives: June 5, 2013
It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What did you recently finish reading? I just finished reading a book that’s still in manuscript. It’s my second time through it—the first time, I took a red pencil to it … Continue reading
Action and suspense sequences and scenes with high emotional content are among the most easily sabotaged by excess verbal baggage and convoluted sentences. So, too are sentences that are intended as “trump cards” and which are played with a flourish … Continue reading