A little-known fact about your humble blogger (though becoming more known as I seem to be publicly embracing it of late) is that I like birds. A lot. And I don’t just mean that I’m into all this bird jewellery that’s fashionable at the moment, but that I feel a particular affiliation and have a [...]
Archive for the ‘non-fiction’ Category
A Book That is Nice Just to Have
Posted in Books, illustrative, non-fiction, P'o'B babble, Science, tagged borrowing books, old books, postaweek2011, tweety bird on 25 July, 2011 | 2 Comments »
E is for Editing
Posted in book editing, Books, Carol Fisher Saller, non-fiction, Publishing, Reading, tagged reading books about your job, things editors get worked up about on 6 June, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Chicago is some folks’ kind of town (the Blues, Obama, deep dish pizza…) and The Chicago is my kind of style guide* – there’s some swot editorial dagginess for you. Trust me, book editors everywhere are sniggering over their cappuccinos right now. I warn you that posting on our ‘E’ book, The Subversive Copyeditor: Advice from Chicago by Carol Fisher Saller, may [...]
Book 28: Writing Home by Alan Bennett
Posted in Alan Bennett, Books, diaries, non-fiction on 14 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not very experienced in reading diaries, unless you include Robin Klein’s Penny Pollard works and Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series when I was a young one. But I’m fascinated by what makes someone decide (or be convinced to) publish their diaries and what makes us, the reading public, want to read them. In saying [...]
