In one word: Eye-opening Cannonball Read Bingo: Bird I’M DOING IT. FINISHING MY CANNONBALL BINGO CARD, WITH MERE MINUTES TO SPARE, AND NOT A MOMENT TO WASTE. This book gets the bird bingo card and not just because it’s my last one (YAY) but because it is an albatross for me to read. Though I know that reading makes one a better writer, I have largely skirted reading books specifically for and about writing because then I have to actually admit that I want to […]
“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
