Tag Archives: nonfiction

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Heather

Recommended Read Bartlett, Allison Hoover. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009. [ISBN-13: 978-0-14-3116824-9] The Man Who Loved Books Too Much is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommended Reads | Tagged Allison Hoover Bartlett, bibliomania, book collectors, book crimes, books, mysteries, nonfiction, rare books, words about words | 2 Comments

The Materiality of Digital Words

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Heather

Guest Post This post was contributed by Martin French. Ever since William Gibson described cyberspace as a “consensual hallucination,” a “graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system,” it has been possible to … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Posts | Tagged cyberspace, digital publishing, digital words, internet, nonfiction, science of language, search engines, search terms, words about words | 2 Comments

Txtng: The gr8 db8

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Heather

Recommended Read Crystal, David. Txtng: The gr8 db8. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008. [ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957133-8] One of the most notable things about texting is the impressive furor that has accompanied its meteoric rise in popularity over the past ten years … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommended Reads | Tagged abbreviations, definitions, history, literacy, nonfiction, reading, rebuses, short forms, sms, spelling, textese, texting, words about words | 4 Comments

Reading Like a Writer

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Heather

Recommended Read Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them New York: Harper Perennial, 2007. [ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077705-0] Seeing Francine Prose speak last week galvanized me into finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommended Reads | Tagged books, close reading, Francine Prose, nonfiction, reading, words about words, writing | 2 Comments

Outwitting History

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Heather

Recommended Read Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2004. [ISBN-13: 978-1565124295] It stands to reason that the books reviewed on the Word Blog should be about … Continue reading →

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