bad reviews
July 22, 2009
- Views, Reviews and Weird News So what have I got to offer you in this weeks "Views, Reviews and Weird News?Some fresh reviews at various blogs, a radio appearance or two and history coming back to lifeVIEWS and REVIEWS:GOODREADS ****I do not typically read books that are geared towards younger readers or young adults, but I am very glad that I decided to try this book. It is very well ...
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June 30, 2009
- Writing is a masochistic art: essentially, you put the (ouch!) most sensitive parts of your anatomy on an anvil... and hand out hammers. It's a risky business, indeed.Alice Hoffman recently felt the sledge-hammer strokes --in, we're told, a "mildly negative review"-- and decided to swing back... by asking her legions of fans to take up the pitchforks and torches. (See news story ...
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June 29, 2009
- Dear Reader,I am a huge fan of Alice Hoffman's novels. Like the critic Roberta Silman, who recently reviewed Ms. Hoffman's latest novel, The Story Sisters, in the Boston Globe, I came to love Ms. Hoffman's books first by reading Illumination Night, which I admired as much for the writing as for the tale. Nothing about the latest Twitter scandal, in which Ms. Hoffman supposedly ranted at Ms. ...
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June 21, 2009
- "A bit disappointing. The story ambled along for ages, giving no indication of where it was going, with lots of rather pointless looks at the main character's youth. There's also the mysterious letters that have no purpose in the story until the very end, when the reason for them is revealed totally out of the blue."Is that true? Is my book disappointing and rather pointless?"The ...
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September 19, 2008
- Most of us, if we're lucky I suppose -- especially we poets -- get book reviews. Could be large national magazines, or literary reviews, or various newspapers -- all sorts of places. And that's great, right? However, while hopefully you have received mostly positive reviews for your books, do any negative reviews stick out in your mind? What's your worst book review ever?I'll be honest ...
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September 5, 2008
- Last February I was on a 'virtual' book tour that included eighteen 'stops', consisting of reviews, interviews, and guest blog posts. Despite the fact that I never had to leave my home, the tour was surprisingly hard work, time consuming, and a lot of fun.On Monday, I started a second tour, this one much less work than the first. Only one interview and ten stops are scheduled, all of them ...
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July 9, 2008
- I teach during the school year. I have two free months during the summer, and I always mean to write, write, write every day of those two months. But I find myself, when I go onto the internet to do "research," just messing around online for hours. I have decided to at least be a bit more productive by channeling my tendency to procrastinate into Red Room articles. So two of the ...
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