![]() ![]() Ignore the glut of grammar books out there, pick this one. Whether heard one time for its general principles, or again and again as a learning tool, this accessible, keenly observed, and, in fact, witty and entertaining discourse on how we use our language will be an unexpected pleasure for many.- AudioFile Pinker is a gifted proponent of the “classic style” of writing he is trying to teach… and lucid writing is an excellent advertisement for its effectiveness.This is an absorbing book, and a helpful one.–Tom Chivers, Times Literary Supplement ![]() …The wit and insight and clarity he brings to that simple formula is what makes this book such a gem."-Mike Lemonick, Time Pinker dives deep into the neuroscience of language to explain why some writing is clear, some murky and some sublime. "Charming and erudite….While The Sense of Style is very much a practical guide to clear and compelling writing, it’s also far more. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In lean but rich prose, characters come to life against a backdrop of peach orchards, roadside produce stands and languid summer afternoons." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A moving portrait of the extended black family in a rural setting. "Sanders sews these family scenes together like a fine quilt maker, delicately fashioning scenes that include distant relatives and old friends with all their peculiarities and local customs." -The Washington Post Book World ![]() Clover is very much the genuine item." -The New York Times Book Review ![]() The author has staked out an impressive new territory here, replete with peach farmers, textile workers, drunks and crazy people, with the newly middle class as well as the terminally poor. Clover, a 10-year-old black girl from a small town in South Carolina, chronicles her bewildering but gradually deepening relationship with her white stepmother following her father's tragic death only hours after the marriage. ![]() ![]() Defoe, however, although did he live in London at the time, was born in 1660, and was therefore only five years old when the Hand of Death fell upon the city of London.ĭefoe creates a convincing persona by making his narrator a stolid burgher who fears his God, respects his fellow Londoners, and admires his city, an unimaginative man who above all reverences reliable testimony and verifiable facts. ![]() Perhaps the most impressive thing about “A Journal of the Plague Year" is that it is an extraordinarily convincing account narrated by the voice of a mature, solid citizen-thoroughly respectable and reliable-who has personally witnessed the extraordinary and often horrific incidents he describes. A brief study of Daniel Defoe's book on the London plague of 1665-1666 illustrates this principle. A person's strengths and weaknesses are often two sides of the same coin-the sympathetic character is often permissive, the assertive unreasonable, the ardent rash-and the same thing can be said of an author's beauties and his faults. Because writing is an expression of human character, what is true of one's character is true of one's writing as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She loves the book and she wants to play the part, so that is very exciting. Variety reported November 12 that New Line Cinema would make the film, but Myron said Streep “will make it with us no matter which studio we go with. “I know that Pam Gray is going to follow me around for a couple of weeks and I have a feeling Meryl Streep is probably going to want to follow me around for awhile,” Myron told the Reporter. Pamela Gray, who scripted Streep’s 1999 film Music of the Heart, will adapt the book. They’re buying the option to make the movie and Meryl Streep will be playing me.” “Somebody leaked it to the press, but we’re working with New Line Cinema. ![]() “No contracts are signed yet,” Myron said in the November 14 Spencer Daily Reporter. The news came as Dewey topped the New York Times bestseller list for the second week in a row. Streep would portray Spencer (Iowa) Public Library Director Vicki Myron, who wrote the bestseller, along with Bret Witter, about the kitten that was adopted by the library staff after being abandoned in the book drop. Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep is reportedly slated to star in the big-screen adaptation of Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. Meryl Streep Set to Play Librarian in Dewey Film ![]() |