1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
Taken from George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language†(1946).
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Now post a link here to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.
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What good fortune to be first!
Looking forward to many other good links.
Jeanne
I posted my thoughts after finishing Jane Eyre.
I got the title in this time!
When “classic” historical fiction doesn’t connect, what is a beleaguered reader to do?
It’s Charles Dickens for me this week!
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IMy “kids’ picks” links are posts with a list of the books we’ve read so far this year, with my kids’ ratings or comments.
My daughter is in 8th grade; my boys are in 5th and advanced 2nd grade.
(If not okay, Sherry, feel free to delete.)
Jeanne
Dickens for me, too. He’s pretty good.
The Virgin’s Lover is a historical novel about Elizabeth I.
Got this review in just in time, after a reviewless week. Thanks for giving me the incentive to get writing!
Thanks for the Saturday Review, Sherry!
Here’s our conversation about “The Not-So-Only Child”, a book about traditional and non-traditional families. In this book discussion, I jumped all over one of Mark’s comments — jokes on me though because the author left us a comment telling us that Mark was right, and I was wrong. D’oh!!
Enjoy!
Andrea
Enjoy
Sorry about that last link above. I thought I was getting into the comments area. Yes, I am quite easily confused! 😀
I wanted to say thank you for the link to my Rumer Godden post and also to leave another link in which the Anglican versus Catholic question is laid to rest, pending any further evidence to the contrary.
I can’t believe I haven’t come across your blog before but, rest assured I will be visiting often. Cheers!
And then I forgot to leave the link. *sigh*
http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-this-house-of-brede-anglican-or.html
Thanks so much Sherry! I will gladly most my book reviews when I write them! This is such a great idea!
Hope you had a great weekend!