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“Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence-especially if it occurs toward the end- or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of  ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.” -Truman Capote

“Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence-especially if it occurs toward the end- or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of  ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.”

-Truman Capote

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New Book Boyfriend Review up! This is “Children of the Arbat” one of the greatest novels in Russian Lit history that freaking no one in America knows about. It’s is a crime! This is a picture of “Children of the Arbat,” appropriately, in Siberia IT’S NOT THE BACK OF MY WASHING MACHINE AND A WHITE TOWEL IT’S SIBERIA, JUST BELIEVE YOU GUYS. Full review at www.booksaremyboyfriends.wordpress.com

New Book Boyfriend Review up! This is “Children of the Arbat” one of the greatest novels in Russian Lit history that freaking no one in America knows about. It’s is a crime! This is a picture of “Children of the Arbat,” appropriately, in Siberia IT’S NOT THE BACK OF MY WASHING MACHINE AND A WHITE TOWEL IT’S SIBERIA, JUST BELIEVE YOU GUYS.

Full review at www.booksaremyboyfriends.wordpress.com

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New “Books are my Boyfriends” blog, reviewing “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from an Unfinished War” by Tony Horwitz a book about modern-day confederates and Civil War re-enactors. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! http://booksaremyboyfriends.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/confederates-in-the-attic-by-tony-horwitz-is-my-boyfriend/ (You can also just click through the pic to get to blog)

New “Books are my Boyfriends” blog, reviewing “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from an Unfinished War” by Tony Horwitz a book about modern-day confederates and Civil War re-enactors. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!

http://booksaremyboyfriends.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/confederates-in-the-attic-by-tony-horwitz-is-my-boyfriend/

(You can also just click through the pic to get to blog)

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