"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of Sleep Before Evening, The Art of Assessment, Quark Soup, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Cherished Pulse and She Wore Emerald Then. She runs a monthly radio program podcast The Compulsive Reader Talks.
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With innovative, fast pace plotting, and plenty of humor, an ideal option for lovers of comics.
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Book Review: Composition - A Fiction Writer's Guide for the 21st Century by Linda Lavid
A useful starting point and a reference you’ll find yourself going back to along the way.
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Book Review: Sunny Side Up by Marion Roberts
A lovely, positive, first novel with great appeal for young teens.
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Book Review: Kafka's Soup - A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick
A cute gift book for bibliophiles, if not food for thought.
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Book Review: Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Clever, funny, lighthearted and serious at the same time, this is a stylistic departure for Paul Auster which nonetheless makes full use of his gifts.
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Book Review: Anybody Any Minute by Julie Mars
A novel full of humour, introspection, and powerful characterisation.
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Book Review: Tremolo - Cry of the Loon by Aaron Paul Lazar
Lazar's book cuts through genre distinctions to the heart of what matters in life.
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What’s So Funny ‘Bout Fiction?: The Question Of The 'Fake' Memoir
There are many different kinds of truth.
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Book Review: Gleaner or Gladiator: the struggle to create by Lyne Marshall
An important addition to the aesthetic canon.
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Audio Book Review: 3rd i by Basil Eliades
A turbulence to dive for: poetry and music as performance art.
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