Please Smell My Words

By Victoria S. 

In reviewing the book, The Way We Write, it is interesting to note that all the contributors are connected to New Hampshire Writers Project (NHWP) in the genres of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.  Their skills in the art of writing has been gathered and offered as an informational aid to help others succeed as writers.   Upon receiving permission from each individual writer the editor, Nicole Escobar, collected these stories into one book in hopes that each reader will find a positive road to creative and acceptable writing. This book presents to the readers the best advice from many writers who have successfully accomplished the rank of a great writer.

This hath not a title

By Jake M.

Walter Dean Myers book on writing was something interesting and unexpected for me. The book was called "just write here's how". The book was meant to teach the younger minds of this generation about how to write and fix your problems when it comes to writing stories or basically anything for that matter. The book helps people come up with ideas or fix ideas in their stories. This story is not just for kids, it is for anyone who wants to further their writing skills and creative ideas.

Making your Point

By Anubhav D.

Making your Point is a writing book that was written by Robert E. Dunbar who was an author that was wrote 15 books. The book talks about concise lessons on how to acquire the skill of speaking and writing persuasively.  It gives useful tips to anyone that wants to dispute a point of view in public speaking, poetry and compositions, term papers, and formal and informal debates. Robert E. Dunbar uses three elements which help speaking and writing: Facts, logic, and language. These three elements are the basic tools of enticement, and can be used in writing, speaking, or debating.

The True Story Behind Gary Paulsen

The True Story Behind Gary Paulsen

By Nathan H.

Guts was written by Gary Paulsen. Guts is a book about Gary Paulsen writing about his other books such as the Hatchet and The River. He talks about the true stories behind all of his famous books. Gary Paulsen also says that most of the adventures he went on and the things that happened to him on those adventures are in his books.

Will the Nazis be Defeated

By Logan M.

War Within These Walls by Aline Sax and Caryl Strzelecki, is a story about a boy named Misha and his family being trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto. The War Within These Walls is fiction and Aline Sax's most famous book. This book has won The National Jewish Book Award and won second place of the Sydney Taylor Book award.

The Artist's Way

By SierraS.

The Artist's Way, published in 1992 by Penguin Group, was written by an American author, Julia Cameron. J. Cameron's intentions are to open up your mind and guide you through a path of spiritual creativity when writing. The Artist's Way teaches techniques to help the reader gain creative talents and skills.

How To Write Fiction

By Logan M.

Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway is about all the key elements on how to write narratives and other fiction pieces. Janet Burroway awarded the Florida Humanities Council's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing because of this book. Two main points in Writing Fiction are Structure and writing process.

This is a lame title for a book review

By Nathan H.

Guts was written by Gary Paulsen. Guts is a book about Gary Paulsen writing about his other books such as the Hatchet and The River. He talks about the true stories behind all of his famous books. Gary Paulsen also says that most of the adventures he went on and the things that happened to him on those adventures are in his books.

Travel Team

Travel Team

By Jared V.

Travel Team was a sports novel written by award winning author Mike Lupica. It is about a young boy named Danny Walker who is cut from his travel basketball team because he is short. So in response to this he forms his own team out of the other rejects from the basketball team. This book was actually based off the author's own experiences of his son being rejected from his home team. The author Mike Lupica, wrote many other books than this one that have received many rewards and have became best sellers. He started out as an columnist who wrote reviews for stories and books. But later on he started to write sports novels and write for many sports magazines such as ESPN the magazine.

How to Write or How to Live?

By Ava T.

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland is a guide to learning how to write.  The author covers topics having to do with originality, creativity and truthfulness.  She claims everyone can write and she'll show you how to do it.

A reader learns to read (but not title a book review)

By Prathyush K.



The Body of Christopher Creed is the sort of book I'd normally never
pick up out of pure curiousity. Normally, I'd pick up a good high
fantasy or sword and sorcery novel, but a psychological thriller that
deals with the effects of bullying? Not exactly my cup of tea.
However, I have to say, I am certainly glad that I read this book.

This does not have a title

By Sam C.

Over the past month or so, I've had the pleasure of reading a Kurt Vonnegut classic, Player Piano. The characters weren't meant to jump off the page, but rather adapt to the dilemmas they faced over the course of a long period of time. My favorite character was obviously Paul Proteus because of how he handled his situation given the circumstances, but the most underrated has to be Reverend James J. Lasher simply because of how subtle his importance is to the story. Overall, the few characters in the story manage to make the story interesting without detracting from its edge. I also admire the title of the story, "Player Piano". It is a highly appropriate metaphor for how things once done by human are now being done by machines.

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The Situation and the Story

By Sonia Gauvin

This book is about teaching writers who are already experienced with narrative writing, how to expand their skill. One line that really stand out to me when describing this book is "How do you turn the boring truth of your life into a story worth telling?" That quote is the first line on the back of the book. This book is about showing the audience a narrative story and not just telling it because this skill is what defines an amateur writer and an experienced writer. The author, Vivian Gornick doesn't try to cover a lot of ground superficially,but lays out one main idea and goes into it in depth by using a wide variety of examples to illustrate her ideas.  You can tell that this writing tool is based on Vivian's  many years of teaching creative writing because it focuses on ways of making narratives interesting and not about being obsessed with yourself.

I guess this says it all

By Tiera M

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ON MY LIFE--- I MEAN… ON WRITING

By Megan V.

Just Write: Here's How by Walter Dean Myers is a rather interesting book about writing. While it has it's high points and very informative lessons, the majority of the book spends time talking about Myers' personal life along with his experiences with a teenage boy named Ross with whom he collaborated on a book. At times this novel took on more of a biography-esque nature, discussing in detail aspects of the writer's teenage years, when he was growing up in the city with a foster family, instead of his writing process. While the connection is made between his upbringing and how this has influenced his writing style, it is almost too much. We learn less about how he writes and more about why he writes what he does. Parts of the book even discuss things he's written, but not through the eyes of his process and instead what the books are about and how they relate to him. This makes parts of the book come off as more of a self promotion and less as an informative example of writing craft.

From Carrie to Revival and Everywhere in Between

By: Madison C.

Stephen King is no Shakespeare, and he'll be the first to tell you that. But he is the wealthiest sonuvabitch ever to make a living from the written word, and though those who make their living don't like to admit it, that counts. From word one of Carrie thirty years ago to the upcoming Dreamcatcher, King has scared so many bejeezuses out of so many of us that we cannot ignore his impact on our culture or on his profession. Moby-Dick and The Red Badge of Courage may be what we're supposed to read, but Salem's Lot and Misery are what we do read, and that counts too.

You is kind, You is smart, You is important

By: Madison C.

Lush, original, and poignant, Kathryn Stockett has written a wondrous novel set in the deep south told through the authentic voices of Aibileen, Minnie, and Skeeter, three unforgettable women whose lives and points of view intersect vividly against a landscape of hopeful change in America. While reading The Help you will be swept away as they work, play, and love during a time when possibilities for women were few but their dreams of the future were limitless.

This has a horrible title

By Abby K.

The Graduate by Charles Webb focuses on 20-year old Ben Braddock, a college graduate who has an affair with his father's friend's wife/neighbor, Mrs.Robinson. Ben is confused about his direction in life, and constantly worries about his future, while his parents breathe down his neck pestering him about continuing his career. Ben continues this self destructive path until Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, comes home from school. Ben is forced by his parents to go on a date with her, and he immediately falls in love with her. Elaine, however, isn't so sure about Ben. She also doesn't know about Ben's relations with her mother. When Elaine finds out, she goes off to marry another man. Ben, desperate to marry Elaine, crashes the wedding. Elaine and Ben decide that they really do want a future together, and they run out of the church and onto a city bus.

Writing to the Bone

By: Veronica B.

                Natalie Goldberg is a teacher from New Mexico and that's where a lot of her inspiration comes from. She wrote her first book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, in 1986 and has written nine since then. Most of her books revolve around teaching others how to do things, such as writing or painting, while connecting it to spirituality.  She uses insightful, witty, and practical advice to encourage people to dig within and find the right words to use. Writing Down the Bones is a book that is best read in segments, rather than just sitting down and forcing yourself through the whole thing.

The Breath of Writing

By Alyssa G.

In "Writing Begins with the Breath", Laraine Herring shows us how to transfer our emotions from our body's onto paper.  Her goal by writing this story was to teach us that writing should connect our emotions and full being to our works instead of having it just be an intellectual exercise.  This book opened up a creative outlet to the writing world and also teaches the reader about the basics everyone needs to know to be a writer.

Breakfast Served NEVER

By Rebecca H.

            In my sixteen years, I had read and loved many books. Never once had I absolutely despised a novel so much. I had recently read a self-published novel titled Stones to Abbigale. Truthfully, it could have been better, but the plot line was followed with ease. Breakfast Served Anytime, however, was nearly impossible to read.

The Proper Way To Write

By the Anonymous Author

The Book On Writing by Paula LaRocque is explained by the title. It teaches you how to write to the best of your ability. It teaches you most of the stuff that Mr.Greene teaches in our class. It also has many topics that Mr.Greene never fully went over, such as getting straight to the point,  cutting prepositions, using active voice, and more. The genre of the book is self help, and it is a good one at that. It immediately gets to the point, and starts teaching you from the get go.

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                         By Matt C

     For my final book review I decided to pick up one of the most popular books about writing. I decided to read "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. This book focuses on teaching the art of writing nonfiction. William Zinsser is a fantastic writer who is often used as a reference by many other writers. His out of the ordinary approach to writing, and his unique technique is what makes this book so useful for striving writers. In this book he goes over the basics of the writing craft as a whole, as well as specific tools you can use while writing nonfiction.

Finding Time to Write

By Jenna G.

Robert J. Ray's book The Weekend Novelist is a timeless linguistic book that delves deep into the works of how to write a real novel. Ray uses his experience in the craft to write a book teaching techniques to aspiring novelists. He has an encapturing way of writing that instructs the reader of the different ways of creating novels like character building and plot construction.

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A Solo Journey of a Lifetime

By Alexi D.

Going Solo by Roald Dahl is a biography on his life. This book tells us all about Dahl's crazy and very unique adventures. These adventures range from ship rides to being in World War two. He meets some very strange and amazing people that change his view on many different things. This shaped the way he wrote and to be the great writer he was.

Writing?

by: Manasa J/

   

The book "On Writing Well" written by William Zinsser is an enlightening novel that gives writers some great tips about writing nonfiction stories. I can ensure you that with zinsser's humor you will not put this book down.

First Book Review -- Which was due third quarter

The Fault In Our Stars

By Mavis D.

The Fault In Our Stars is not like every teen romance novel. The book also includes the struggle of a girl and a boy with cancer and everything they've had to go through. This book basically tells teenagers that no matter how much you may go through, that doesn't stop you from living your life. The story is about a girl named Hazel who has cancer that spread to her lungs. She wears a breathing tube and has to go to support groups. While in the support group she meets a man named Augustus Waters

Second Book Review

By The Anonymous Stranger

Of Mice and Men is about two field workers in California during the Great Depression. There's George Milton and Lennie Small, Lennie also has a mental illness. They both had a dream of living on their own land. In Lennie's part of the dream he wants to touch soft rabbits on the farm, he loves touching things that are soft. Lennie loves it when George tells the story about the farm. The boss's son, Curley, hates large men which made Lennie a target. Curley's wife tries to flirt with all the workers because she's lonely.

Curley started a fight with Lennie, where Lennie ended up crushing and breaking his hand. In the story, Lenne played with the puppy in the barn. While stroking the puppy, Lennie ended up killing it by being too rough. After Lennie killed the puppy, Curley's wife came into the barn talking about Lonely she was and her dreams of being a movie star. After finding out that he likes to pet soft things, she offered to let him stroke her hair. He became rough and she started yell and he panicked then snapped her neck. After all of that happened, Curley was looking around to have him lynched.

George took Lennie out next to a lake, he started telling the story about the farm then shot Lennie in the back of the head.

The story was really emotional at some points and had a lot of foreshadowing. I'm not really into old stories, but this one kind of interested me. I recommend this book to people who are into historical fiction and drama. This one definitely has a lot of twist.

This book was probably a little young for you

By Mavis D.

Island Of The Blue Dolphins is about a girl named Karana. Her people lived in a village called Ghalas-at. One day, a ship of Aleuts led by a Russian named Captain Orlov arrive and persuade the natives to let them hunt sea otter in return for other goods. The Aleuts try to trick the tribe and leave without paying. A war breaks out people died on each side. Now there's only a few natives of the tribe left and the Aleuts leave the island. A lot of men including Karana's father die during the battle. The replacement Chief leaves the island to find new land on the east. After waiting, a boat finally comes back and picks up the rest of the tribe, but Karana's brother runs off the ship to go grab his spear. Karana tried to get the boat to wait for her brother, but they needed to leave before a storm approaches. She got off the boat to go get her brother and they ended up leaving without her. Her and her brother we're alone on the island, but her brother was eventually killed by a pack of wolves. Karana was left to do all the "man's" work and at the same time she tried to get revenge by killing off the pack of wolves. In that process she ended up being friends with one of them and training him to be her pet. She also trained birds, otters, and other animals to help her survive on the island. Later on a ship landed on the island looking for Natives. She hid in a cave from the people but eventually met one of them. She chose to stay on the island.

Do You Have a Story?

By Samantha M.

What's Your Story?; A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction by Marion Dane Bauer is an informative and simple guide, that helps out first time writers. Step by step, Bauer tells how to create a short story by using easy to follow explanations and understandable language. Also, she provides reassuring advice throughout each step, giving you a sense of confidence as you work your way through writing your first short story.

The Writer Within

The Writer Within

By Madelaine D.

Writing Down the Bones by Judith Guest is a nonfiction book in which the author takes a different approach to teach everyone how they can become a better writer. Guest does this by showing multiple ways to think outside the box, and reminds readers they do not have follow the rules of writing all the time. She writes about all of the places that are most comfortable to write in, the types of notebooks and pens that are best to use, and all of the different ways you can train your mind into one of a writer.

stay gold ponyboy

By Someone Who Will Not Get Credit

The outsiders is a novel written by S.E Hinton. This novel was a very well written novel about a couple groups of boys. The poorer and more broken part of the towns group were called the greasers. On the other side of town where the richer more fancy part of town there's a group called the soches and these two groups are like rivals they completely hate each other. While reading this book you will notice that this book is a very powerful book. The main character pony boy lives a life without parents and only has his two older brothers and ponyboy really looks up to them and wants to be like them. Another member of the greasers is johnyboy and he also lives in a bad home. Johnny Boys lives with his dad and his dad is a drunk and beats on johny like has if he is a rag doll. These two characters are very important in this book so if you read it look at their lives and compare them with yours it could change your look on your life.

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By Anubhav D.

Making your Point is a writing book that was written by Robert E. Dunbar who was an author that was wrote 15 books. The book talks about concise lessons on how to acquire the skill of speaking and writing persuasively.  It gives useful tips to anyone that wants to dispute a point of view in public speaking, poetry and compositions, term papers, and formal and informal debates. Robert E. Dunbar uses three elements which help speaking and writing: Facts, logic, and language. These three elements are the basic tools of enticement, and can be used in writing, speaking, or debating.

All Across These Roads We Go

By Thomas Y.

The book On The Road, by Jack Kerouac, is an adventure novel portraying the adventures of Sal Paradise and his friend Dean Moriarty. On The Road shows writer Sal in a depressed and slump like time, where he meets the reckless Dean. Thinking Dean has an active attribute he is lacking, Sal follows Dean on a three-year journey across the country. On this adventure is plenty of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other potentially dangerous situations. Also along the trip there are several settings, dramas\, characters, and moments of development.

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Book Review #3- House of Dolls

By Sonia G.

This novella is written by Ka-tzenik. Joy Divisions were special camps within bigger camps that Nazi officers would send young, Jewish women and live there solely to sexually pleasure Nazi soldiers. This book is no longer in print due to the unpopularity of the graphic content.It is unknown if the story is fiction that's based on a diary kept by a young Jewish girl who was captured in Poland when she was fourteen years old and forced into sexual slavery in a Nazi labor camp or if it's nonfiction about Ka-tznik's sister. The book is specifically about a brothel in Auschwitz. The post-punk band, Joy Division got their name from these brothels and this book.