You’ve just finished writing a new poem or a chapter of a story you’re particularly proud of at three in the morning. What do you do next? a) Sleep on it. I’ll revise it in the morning when I’m not tired. b) Go to bed and see if I can get some feedback from people [...]

So, thus far in my previous article, we touched upon the topic of people not reading because they have no time to do so. We also managed to denounce that particular myth. It does however, leave us with a problem. Why don’t people read as much as they used to? Well, fifty years ago there [...]

We are faced with the reality that we do not always like what we read or we do not agree with the material presented in bound form. So, what do we do about it? When discussing fiction, there are probably more good books then bad out there, and with so much good, why waste your [...]

When it comes to Hollywood, most writers are more than happy to let their books become million dollar films, and why not? They earn more money, it becomes a sign that they’ve made it to the top, and more imporantly, their book is shown to a completey new audience who may never have heard of [...]

We all remember book reports from school. Most of us remember the 6 questions we were taught to use to write these reports – who, what, when, where, how and why. And most of us hurried through these boring and sometimes painful reports just to get them done. One page, hand written, scratched out on [...]

Something that is rather inescapable within the world of literature is an underlying hierarchy of pretentiousness. For example, people who read what are considered to be ‘Classics’ are often taken more seriously in academic or literary circles than someone who has just finished a science fiction or fantasy novel. As Mark Twain wrote, however; “A [...]

Review; [n] an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation. Ah, book reviews. Those snippets of writing that can recommend someone to pick up a book or to avoid it like the plague. A review by an ‘acclaimed’ critic, (I’m still not exactly sure what this means. Someone who knows what they’re talking about, [...]

Fills a gap, but without the added nutrition. We’ve all been there. We want a book to read, but we don’t want to have to think too hard whilst we’re on a relaxing holiday. So what kind of thing do we choose? Normally this category of ‘Easy reads’ would fall under ‘Summer books’ or the [...]

You want to be a reviewer. Okay, so what do you want to review? With so much out there that can be reviewed these days, there are tons of people jumping on the reviewing wagon to make a name for themselves. Review writing pays. You can get everything from about $25 starting pay for a [...]

Bound Books – Soon to be obsolete? If there’s one thing any University student can bet they’ll have to pay money for at the start of each term, it’s a pile of new books. Not only do you have to try and find the things to begin with, but then you spend your time hauling [...]