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The Art of Gifting Good Books

Placing a good book into a book lover’s hands reaches them in a way no other gift can. Gifting books, if done with a little thought and preparation, can be a rewarding mutual experience. But short of asking the person you are buying for what the most important books in their lives are, or what subjects interest them, buying books for someone else can be a complex undertaking, especially when talking about non-fiction and special interest subjects.

Six Tips: Revising for Style and Economy

Hemingway once wrote, in A Moveable Feast, that all he expected of himself on any given day, was one true and perfect sentence. This is, in my opinion, one of his finest books, and one of the finest examples of descriptive language there is in modern auto-biographical writing. The man made a habit of crafting amazing prose; deep, rich textures and visceral experience with very few words.