A Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin': Reading Like A Writer

Monday, August 10, 2009

Reading Like A Writer:

A Guide For People Who Love Books

and For Those Who Want To Write Them

by Francine Prose

(4 Scoops)

Book Reviews

I have devised a rating system that connects my love of books to another love: ice cream.

5 scoops= perfection

You must read this book or your

life will not be complete.

4 scoops= great

You should totally put this book

on the top of your reading list.

3 scoops= good

You should add this book

to your reading list.

2 scoops= okay

Read it if you have

nothing better to do.

1 scoop= bad

there is no reason to Tead this book

empty bowl= atrocious

Do not read this book.

Boycott this book.

Run away from this book.

Some Fabulous Sentences I've Stumbled Upon...

From "A Word From the Nearly Distant Past" by David Levithan: We watch Erik Johnson as he lays the clothes on his bed, creating an outline of the person he's going to be tonight.
From "Night Life" by Bruce Holland Rogers: She woke while it was still dark except for under the table where the night light glowed, and she heard the mousy sounds of the sleeping house and the whisper of trees moving against the moon.
From "How to Talk to Your Mother" by Lorrie Moore: He plants kisses on the sloping ramp of your neck, and you fall asleep against him, your underpants peeled and rolled around one thigh like a bride’s garter.

A Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin'