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Vook is made for the iPad
I just bought Alice in Wonderland from Vook, a website that sells multimedia books (price: $2.99). When you view a “vook”, you don’t just read text as you would on a Kindle, you get video on the side...
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Why writers don’t always need to please their readers
“Writing, before it is anything else, is a way of clarifying one’s thoughts. This is obviously true of forms such as the diary, which are inherently solitary. But even those of us who write for...
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Eat Pray Love travel guides to Bali, Rome and Naples
I have just posted a series of travel guides to Bali, Rome and Naples, following the footsteps of Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love”, now showing in the cinemas with Julia Roberts in the...
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Mixed feelings, mostly despair, on the closing of Borders bookstores in San...
Borders is closing all of its downtown San Francisco stores as part of its reorganization (in bankruptcy). They had already closed the store here in south of Market (SOMA) last year, and now with the...
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Short story: The Animal Mummies Wish To Thank The Following
A clever, funny short story by Ramona Ausubel begins like this: “For generous donations in support of their preservation, the animal mummies wish to thank the Institute for Unforbidden Geology, the...
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Jason Fried on editing well
Jason Fried says in his post The Class I’d Like To Teach: It would be a writing course. Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph...
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Hemingway on the horror and futility of war
Ernest Hemingway was wounded while serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in 1918 in Italy. (Photo: Corbis) Veterans’ Day in the United States is used by politicians, most of whom have never seen...
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Crows on a tree against a winter sky
Bleak though the winter be A gathering of crows on a tree Against the pale winter sky Preparing their wings to fly.Filed under: Books and Writing
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What I learned writing a novel in 27 days (NaNoWriMo)
I participated in National Novel Writing Month (called NaNoWriMo) which is held every year in November. The goal of NaNoWriMo participants is to write a novel containing a minimum of 50,000 words. To...
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Best books 2014
Here are the best books I read last year (2014): 1) The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (2) Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (3) The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampedusa (4) The...
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The Secret of Angat: a supernatural tale set in the Philippines
My book, The Secret of Angat, is available now in the Amazon Kindle Store. Here’s a synopsis: March 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army is retreating from Manila to the northern provinces of the...
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