An excerpt from "New Year's Eve Letter to Friends"
...Syria's Enana Dance Theater's first U.S. visit is a chance for Metro Detroiters of both Arab and non-Arab heritage to celebrate and learn more about the culture of a rich and vitally important region of the world. The company performs Tuesday night at Orchestra Hall at The Max in Detroit as part of the annual benefit gala to support the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn.
...Metro Detroiters will get a chance to experience New York-style opera from the award-winning series "The Met: Live in HD" on Wednesdays and Thursdays through July.
...Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis; Knopf, 169 pages ($24.95). It would, no doubt, be immensely satisfying to some to ignore the simultaneous 25th anniversary publication of Bret Easton Ellis' “Less Than Zero” and this, Ellis' new novel featuring its characters. Ellis, after all, is among those responsible for the movie “The Informers” (fictionalized here as “The Listeners”), a movie from one of his books so horrible that Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger made no difference.
...Written to educate and entertain, the new Animal Rescue Team series for young readers combines wildlife facts with light-hearted stories.
...Stephanie of Stephanie's Written Word is hosting the Everything Austen challenge again! So excited!!!July 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011Here's the place I'll list what I've read/reviewed...1.2.3.4.5.6.And here are the books I'm considering for this challenge...Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda GrangeEdmund Bertram's Diary by Amanda GrangeEmma and the Vampires by Wayne JosephsonThe Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie JamesPride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the DreadfulsScones and Sensibility by Lindsay ElandPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenMansfeld Park by Jane Austen© Becky Laney of Becky's Book ReviewsIf you're reading this on a site (other than Becky's Book Reviews or Becky's feed, be aware that this post has been stolen and is used without permission.
...Reading Adam and Ken's reviews of Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son piqued my curiosity. Which is why I invited the author to write a guest blog for the Hotlist. And now, to give you a taste of this novel, the good folks at Pyr supplied this extract. For more info about this title: Canada, USA, Europe.Here's the blurb:In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street...
To help promote Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Goes to War, the folks at Tor Books provided this extract for your reading pleasure! For more info about this title: Canada, USA, Europe.Here's the blurb:Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They're killer werewolves—and post traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to ...
“It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.” ~Havelock Ellis
A guest post by Bamboo Forest of Tick Tock Timer
Few things will improve your post like well positioned quotes. Many authors are not only more brilliant than we are, but they’re also superior writers. By taking their brilliance and inserting it in your posts, you’re boosting your arguments credibility and making your articles more interesting to read.
Non-fiction book authors virtually always pull quotes from other authors to give their arguments more power and to increase the overall enjoyment of their work. By doing the same for your blog posts you’re guaranteed to increase the quality of your writing.
For an entire week I read every post from five A-list bloggers to see how many of their posts included quotes. Out of 31 posts, only three did.
There are two implications to take away from this: One, if you’re a blogger and use more quotes you’ll definitely stand out. And two: the reason quotes are seldom used is obvious, it makes writing more...