20210107 - "How to Speak and Write Correctly"

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The fundamental/ tools, available to all,/ style of the masters.

("How to Speak and Write Correctly")

Hello goodreaders,

This is the final review for 2020's #MyYearInBooks, thanks for partaking in this with me, these poems will be part of a future HaikuPrajna Collection. Today's book is "How to Speak and Write Correctly" by Joseph Devlin. Writing is a solace which borders both religion and philosophy, so it always pays off reviewing the fundamentals, no matter how well-versed you may be. This book accompanies other "cliche" books on writing, like "The Elements of Style", which I wholeheartedly believe are indispensable tools for any writer.

Stay tuned for an update to cap off my 2020 Goodreads!

Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here:  https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html

While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html

Poetry on, and the first draft of "Spear-thrower" can be read here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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20210106 - "Ubik"

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As the half-life of/ the deceased, so the "real" world./ One-thing; miracles.

("Ubik")

Hello goodreaders,

The penultimate review from #MyYearInBooks 2020 is "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick. Philip experiments with the consequences of duality through the suspended half-life of his dying cast of characters in a setting that revolves around a non-physical world within a cold-storage system for people who have died, and their loved ones who live in the physical world and who visit the cold-pac to talk to the deceased. Those in the "half-life" experience their world as a reconstruction of the "real" world, however the half-lifers require the help of their "real" allies in order to overcome the force of entropy as it attempts to quantize the half-life world for its inhabitants. And while the real world helps the half-lifers, both come to understand that the "real" world is just as influenced by the half-life of cold-pac, as the half-life is by the "real" world. 

Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here:  https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html

While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html

Poetry on, and the first draft of "Spear-thrower" can be read here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

Please follow this blog via email by clicking the "Subscribe" button at the top of the page (or like us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram) to see more of these bite-sized insights, AND so that you can read these projects as they are being produced!

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