The Art of X-Ray Reading : How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (Hardcover)

from JennysBookBag.com

I'm a voracious reader, but this book made me feel like I've never truly read a book. I mean that in the most complimentary way. I didn't realize how much I was missing when I read, until I read this book. It's a very eye-opening experience that lead to many aha moments and a ton of "OMG, I can't...

from hardlyhardy

You can teach writing by teaching reading. With that sound philosophy, writing coach Roy Peter Clark, author of such books as "Writing Tools" and "How to Write Short," gives us "The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing" (2016). Those "25 ...

from booktsunami

I must admit that Roy Peter Clark got me hooked very early in the piece. In fact, his first example of x-ray analysis of the Great Gatsby. I had seen the movie but never read the book. He got me so hooked that I went out and bought Gatsby and read it very fast. And, found it ....more or less as C...

from mykl-s

This is a useful book for us readers as well as for writers. Roy Peter Clark gives examples, advice, some suggestions and rules on what to look for beyond the text and plot, into the heart and soul of a book.The examples are well chosen and explained well. He writes for journalists, novelists and...

from tjsjohanna

This was such an helpful book in terms of pointing out some of the pretty amazing things really good writers do with their writing - and how I can use those same techniques in my own writing. For anyone who is working on the craft of writing the ideas here are so valuable.