Here’s a neat list of online book review sites from Robin Mizell’s Treated and Released. Look for Charlottesville Words under “Opinionated or Personality-Driven.” Hmm, sounds like Robin’s been talking to my therapist…
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It’s from a diet and fitness site, but maybe this article about procrastination will light a fire anywhere it’s needed. I liked this counterintuitive tip: Erase your To-Do List every day or week and start over. Running lists end up with items that stick around too long, sink to the bottom and end up as [...]
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Want to find or start a book group? Need ideas for your reading list? JMRL has two new online resources for you! From my email: There are 2 new websites to help all the “people who love to read” in our area: Readers’ Corner – dedicated to reading and books- includes all the lists you [...]
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You know, this World Wide Web thing might just work out after all. The always interesting Conversational Reading links us to this interview with Aaron Swartz, whose latest initiative is a Web 2.0 project called Open Library: Open Library is a new online tool for finding information about books – even (perhaps especially) for titles [...]
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It pays to check your referrals. I was reviewing today’s stats for Cville Words, and included in the list of today’s referrals was a link to the Google Books entry for The Sheltering Sky. I get quite a few hits on this blog for The Sheltering Sky — maybe it’s something people read in school? [...]
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This summer I’ve been taking a couple of online courses for writers through Piedmont. With each lesson the instructors share a couple of links that might be of interest to the class. Here’s a few I’d like to pass along: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story — A teacher’s workshop from The Annenberg Foundation. [...]
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I love magazines. However, I get very frustrated when I hear about a great article that’s not online and not in a magazine I subscribe to. The selection of magazines in Charlottesville is pretty good, but not fantastic; I don’t often want to buy a magazine just for a single article; sometimes the article I [...]
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Back in March I spotted what I thought was a new eggcorn: I spotted a new one today — at least it isn’t in the Eggcorn Database yet. In a book review on a website that shall remain nameless, the author wrote of “a half-hazard throwing together of material.” A quick Google search shows 644 [...]
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A classic column from Pat Holt of Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do). The list also could be called, “10 COMMON PROBLEMS THAT DISMISS YOU AS AN AMATEUR,” because these mistakes are obvious to literary agents and editors, who may start wording their decline letter by page [...]
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