August Reviews: part 2

And I returneth with a small number of book reviews. I hadn’t planned to post this set of reviews yet but I managed to read two fairly long books yesterday and thought it would be sensible to post them rather than waiting ten days.
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30 Days of Creative Writing:Day 21

Today’s exercise is about humour in writing, specifically parody. We’re going to parody a dictionary. I’ve been given a list of words and have to define them a la Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.

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Criminally good books

I’ve just finished reading a couple of good books:

Silent Witnesses

Nigel McCrery

and

The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton

And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press

Jeremy Clay

 

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