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Consistency matters
While researching a master’s in creative writing, I’ve discovered a major inconsistency on a university website. In two places I’ve found this paragraph: Graduate Assistants employed full-time will...
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Your vocabulary helps feed the hungry
If you haven’t yet spent a few minutes (or a few hours!) on FreeRice, you’re missing out. This site launched in October, and it’s growing like gangbusters (where did that word come from?). It’s fun,...
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‘Vendors of words’
I’ve just barely begun Malcolm Muggeridge’s autobiography, Chronicles of Wasted Time, and I made myself set it down. I needed to write this down before I moved on, since by moving on I would have...
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Quick Reads
Via Shelf Awareness: Quick Reads, a program designed for adults with literacy problems “is improving reading and boosting self-esteem,” according to the Guardian. Nine out of 10 of the people who have...
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Nightbird books
A local independent book store is featured extensively in today’s Shelf Awareness. On March 26, husband-and-wife writing duo Jon and Pamela Voelkel will participate in Nightbird‘s monthly book club for...
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Released today: The Translator
From Shelf Awareness: Book Review: The Translator The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari (Random House, $23, 9781400067442/1400067448/, March 18, 2008) Daoud Hari’s wrenching...
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How to spell or, word pet peeve
This website made me laugh. It would seem that someone has such a strong aversion to definitely being misspelled that he or she created an entire, albeit simple, website dedicated to educating people...
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Word: trow
The last few chapters of the book I’m reading now have been laden with a verb I had to look up. Trow: to believe, think, or suppose. I guess I don’t feel too bad about not knowing beforehand, since...
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Avid readers’ ways of operating and more
A short collection of items for your perusal and enjoyment: • How do avid readers find their next book? At So Many Books, Stefanie wrote about an academic study that confirms much of what we readers...
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