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Ruth Seeley and 1 other person liked Michael Perry's blog post: On Editors and Copyeditors
"Just recently my editor taught me when to use "elder daughter" instead of "eldest." Today my copyeditor taught me that these {} are called French braces. Sometimes I get questions "   ...read it »
"Andrew that's just wonderful! 5/5 in ALL categories. You must be especially gratified by the cover design category, given the way the cover changed so...more"
"'Edith's War' has been recognized by the 19th Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards as an Excellent Entry. The historic novel, set for the most part during World War II in England, was given top "   ...read it »
Rabbit Angstrom  by John Updike
" After a particularly unengaging two years of study I promised myself an extravagance – a big novel, for no reason. Something that I had been meaning to read for ten years or so, something american now. (Living in a colony, most of my novels have been... "
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"Still glad I read it though, Scott. My concept of my own fairness involves not dismissing things out of hand. And as I said in one of my comments abov...more"
Ruth Seeley gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Innocent Cities by Jack Hodgins
Innocent Cities
by Jack Hodgins
read in February, 2012
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That it took me five months to finish this novel and yet it didn't seem to suffer from being put down for 20 or so other novels says something about it - I'm just not sure what. Of Jack Hodgins' fabulous Vancouver Island narratives that began with Th...more
Ruth Seeley gave 3 of 5 stars to:
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
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I seem to be alone in not having much liked House of Sand and Fog. I found its prose tedious, but was interested enough in seeing what they'd done with the movie to watch it - and was blown away by the movie. Found the prose in this one much improved...more
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40127 Atomic Fez Publishing — 42 members — last activity Jul 13, 2011 09:08am
Small Press Publisher who is also a bit small himself.
42692 ScienceOnline — 54 members — last activity Feb 13, 2012 06:46pm
Virtual book club for ScienceOnline, an initiative created by Bora Zivcovik and Anton Zuiker. Group will be fairly freeform, allowing members to discu...more
44031 Q&A with Livia Blackburne on Neuroscience of Reading and Writing — 146 members — last activity Apr 03, 2011 12:12pm
What is it that transforms a page of words into something that moves us and leaves us changed? From February 13, 2011 to March 15, 2011, Livia Blackb...more
33330 Historical Fiction Books — 148 members — last activity Dec 22, 2011 01:06pm
This network is for authors, publishers and readers of historical fiction books only. The books can be any genre of historical fiction - mystery, roma...more
40089 CBC Books — 615 members — last activity 12 hours, 8 min ago
Where to find all the books and literary goodness on CBC! Come and join the community and get involved in the discussions.


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