http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/22/five-minutes-a-day/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/22/five-minutes-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » The Blog Entry That Was His Final Word on the Subject Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:01:39 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=338#comment-270 [...] I like clean writing. And I try to write cleanly. (In fact, my current five-minutes-a-day book is William Zinsser’s indispensable On Writing Well, which we should all reread from time to time–it instructs us to eliminate cliches such as “from time to time.”) And I believe that, in almost every instance, the writer or speaker would be better served by a less grandiose arrangement: [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/22/five-minutes-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Sweet Home Chicago, Part Deux Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:49:23 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=338#comment-193 [...] I often write about the more intellectual and esoteric concerns of book reviewing, but there are practical ones, too. (I’m not talking about financial compensation-in the world of book reviewing, that’s practically theoretical.) Books are heavy. As I noted in my post, “Five Minutes a Day,” there were a couple of glossy-papered books that I couldn’t take with me to New Orleans. I wouldn’t have taken them to St. Paul, either, except that the reviews are due tomorrow and I didn’t want to make them up. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/22/five-minutes-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-155 BIll Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=338#comment-155 Hmm . . . sounds like the three-martini-a-day family leave. Sounds good to me.

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