This is one of my favourite books of all time - it works both as a book to dip into when you have some spare time and as a serious book for anyone who wants to improve their writing. But it's no dry textbook...
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January 9, 2008
The Pronoun Game
The Pronoun game is excruciating fun with a carload of children - great for long journeys. It's much more challenging than you would think and is the best way I know to teach someone what a pronoun is and why they are so important, and have lots of laughs on the way...
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January 11, 2008
On Writing by Stephen King
The bulk of Stephen King’s career has revolved around the horror genre and I read many of these books in school, mainly the lesser known ones like Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Tommyknockers, Skeleton Crew, and the Richard Bachman (King’s pseudonym) book, The Regulators.
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January 14, 2008
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
With Eats, Shoots and Leaves, English author, Lynne Truss, invites us into her stickler world, but she does so with great humour in a very Cranky Old People kind of way.
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