Booking Through Thursday: Grammar

  • Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books, dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library?
    - Booking Through Thursday

Ah, I have quite a few wordy type books, although nothing to improve my grammar as such. Three or dictionary type one and the fourth is about structure and such in novels. They are...

The Oxford Popular English Dictionary & Thesaurus
(Old dependable, everyone has one of these, right?)

Foyle's Philavery
(This is great, lovely book full of random strange and under-used words)

Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
(lots of usages and spellings, people and places)

How Novels Work - John Mullan
(Structure, style and devices, mainly.)

8.5.08 17:43
 


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glowboy / Website (9.5.08 15:40)
I could be doing with some of those, sometimes (can't find strike-through) often!

Wow!

Two surprises in thirty minutes - at my age!
I just logged in and am overwhelmed by the brightness of it all. Looks good. Does this mean that even glowboy will have to have a makeover?

At 15.00 hours, just, I was exercising my rights, as a Scot to roam freely by cycling through the Laird's private gardens, next to his castle, here in the Spring-struck Hebrides.

There am I looking at the rhododendron collection, gathered in Victorian times and still blossoming and flowering today when, just over the castle tower, at no more than 1000', engine not thrumming but whining in perfect mechanical harmony, rounded wings banked and cutting through the light wisps of a mediterraneanly-humid West Coast barely blue firmament streaks - a Spitfire.

I decided to comment you, thinking that this was indeed a moment for amillion.

glowboy


amillionpieces / Website (10.5.08 13:01)
Hi Glowboy - I love that The Hebs still have Laird's. I remember going to a castle once and I was most alarmed when the Laird himself was taking money at the front desk (how the might had fallen!) The spitfire sounds awesome though, must have been great to see one in such surrondings.


Georgia (14.5.08 12:44)
Dont forget my grammar sheet! Very important (I'm sure I posted this before!)


amillionpieces / Website (14.5.08 12:54)
Ah, grammar sheet, yes, Georgia's very important grammar sheet. (And lessons on the words its and it's)

p.s - I lost friday comments - if it was then?

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