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Loading... Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who… (2006)by Francine Prose
  
Bibliomemoirs (4) Books Read in 2015 (1,547) » 6 more No current Talk conversations about this book.  streamsong | Dec 14, 2022 |  pretty good book, boring at times, engaging at others. gave me a few good ideas. (  ) AceVonS | Jul 14, 2022 | I read this recently and liked it, but as so often with "how to write" books, it seems that Prose doesn't actually understand very deeply the relation of her reading to her writing. Which is fine. It likely isn't subsumable in words. This is a noble effort. ( ) AnnKlefstad | Feb 4, 2022 | For those who aspire to write fiction, Francine Prose offers insights into writing styles and devices used by classic authors as well as some modern ones. Some of the quoted passages went on and on. It offers little in the way of advice for those whose writing interest lies in non-fiction. Perhaps the best feature of the book is the bibliography of what you should read now. (  ) thornton37814 | Nov 15, 2021 | examples of good writing ritaer | Aug 7, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. 
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This book begins at the very beginning with choosing the correct word. Oh my gosh, I thought in reading the first chapter heading, that I would never improve my writing if I had to consider each word!
But the book progressed, through sentences, paragraphs, and subjects you didn’t get in your standard writing class and finally – trusting yourself and breaking all the rules.
I found this book highly readable and very inspirational. I enjoyed it enough that I would like to have a copy in my home library – not least of all for the pages of Books to be Read Immediately at the end. (