THE BATH CHILDREN’S NOVEL AWARD 2016 LONGLIST.
This year, 715 manuscripts were submitted by unsigned writers across the globe. From an incredibly strong field, 26 novels have been longlisted, with a range of settings from 19th century Castile to future wintry worlds via coastal Devon, Texan creeks and a sewage tunnel beneath Buckingham Palace…
I began collecting Authorisms – words, phrases or names created by a writer – more than a decade ago using a number of resources to determine the actual author of a given instance. Most of my word sleuthing took place in the Library of Congress where I consulted many printed and electronic sources. William Shakespeare whose written vocabulary consisted of 17, 245 words included hundreds of authorisms. Some of them, true nonce words, never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others – like bump, hurry, critical, and road — are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. With many other examples to choose from here are my 10 favourites…
Via https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/19/top-10-words-invented-writers-authorisms
Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books we’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their December 2016 recommendations…
Collecting books and not reading them is, shall we say, textbook behavior. At least for some of you, and you know who you are. Suffering from the condition of racking up book purchases of $100, $200 or $1,000 without ever bending a spine? There’s a Japanese word for you…
Via http://www.ozy.com/acumen/theres-a-word-for-buying-books-and-not-reading-them
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what they consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.
Here is their selection…
Via https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/?platform=hootsuite
Personally, I’m down with a long book — I love diving into a story and knowing I’ll get to stick around for a while, spending quality time with the characters I love and the world they live in. But at the same time, I get it: not everyone wants to sit down with all 1049 pages of The Arabian Nights when there are so many other good books to read; ones that require far less significant a time commitment. Some of us have Netflix binges to get back to, after all. But with that said, there are still some especially long books that are definitely worth the time it takes to read them.
Here are 11 of the longest books that are still worth your time…
Do you find yourself using the word ‘good’ to describe just about anything? Surely, it’s convenient and time-efficient to use one word over and over again, but does it really express the exact meaning you’d like to convey?
Via https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/20-creative-writing-terms-good
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