what I’ve been reading | whiskey drink studio For anyone wanting some books to read here is what I was reading the last bit of 2013, i will warn you it is a weird mix of genres but they are all good. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. If you are interested in human trafficking. Did not realize that one of the big ways to help is just through simple things like food, water, and education. Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith. The Cloister Walk by Kathlees Norris. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. House Girl by Tara Conklin. Exodus by Leon Uris. Snow in August by Pete Hamill. The Liars Club by Mary Karr. Crazy Love by Francis Chan. What about you? Like this: Like Loading... Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recommended by TEDsters A look at the famous TED Bookstore at TED2013. Photo: Michael Brands Books can entertain, sucking you like a tornado into incredible new worlds. Books can teach, giving you a richer understanding of time periods, people and ideas you’ve never been exposed to. But books can do so much more. Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind In today’s talk, TED’s own Lisa Bu introduces us to the concept of “comparative reading,” the practice of reading books in pairs, to give deeper context and reveal new insights. Every year at TED, we set up a bookstore filled with books recommended by TEDsters of note. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. John Adams by David McCullough. Personal History by Katharine Graham. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn.
Humanities | Research and Documentation Online 5th Edition An alphabetized list of works cited, which appears at the end of your research paper, gives publication information for each of the sources you have cited in the paper. Include only sources that you have quoted, summarized, or paraphrased. (For information about preparing the list, click here; for a sample list of works cited, click here.) The guidelines presented here are consistent with advice given in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. (2009). General guidelines for works cited in MLA style In an MLA works cited entry, the first author’s name is inverted (the last name comes first, followed by a comma and the first name), and all other names are in normal order. The city of publication is given without a state name. All works cited entries must include the medium in which a work was published, produced, or delivered. up to directory menu Listing authors (print and online) According to Nancy Flynn, . . . Flynn, Nancy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Article or other short work 6. ---.
19 Books You've Been Meaning to Read FOREVER A little while ago, we asked you to confess the books you’ve always wanted to read but just never seem to get around to. You know, the ones that stare at you from atop your TBR pile and cause you endless readerly guilt. 358 readers answered the call, listing 383 unique titles. A handful of books came up A LOT, and a lot of books came up only once. Here are the top 19 books Riot readers have been meaning to read forever. Titles marked with asterisks—15 of the 19!–also appear on the list of Riot readers’ 50 favorite novels. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (51 mentions)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*Ulysess by James Joyce*Moby-Dick by Herman Melville*Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace*The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. What do you make of these results? Book Riot Live is coming!
From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books Isn’t it strange that we have the term “well-read” but absolutely no one can come close to defining it? And isn’t also strange that other art forms don’t have equivalent terms for a vague sense of someone’s total experience of that form (well-seen for movies? well-heard for music? Absurd). Thinking about this recently sucked me into a little thought-experiment: say someone had never read any literature and wanted to be well-read. This hypothetical forces any given answerer to do two things: provide their personal definition of well-read and then give a list of books that might satisfy that definition. The following 100 books (of fiction, poetry, and drama) is an attempt to satisfy those competing requirements. As for the number of 100: in addition to being a nice, round number, it is also a number that, at a one-book-every-two-week pace this hypothetical reader could accomplish in just about four years–the standard length of an undergraduate program.
The Best Writing Advice From Famous Authors There are lots of “writing rules” around from well-known authors, and I thought it would be useful to bring them together in one list. I’m sure I’ve missed some, so feel free to make suggestions! Here is, as far as I can tell, a collection of The Best Writing Advice From Famous Authors: Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell is from Open Culture. John Steinbeck’s 6 Writing Tips Ten rules for writing fiction is from The Guardian. The Guardian also has a Rules for writers series. “Fumblerules Of Grammar” comes from William Safire. Heinlein’s Rules C.S. Writing Rules! A Simple Way to Create Suspense offers great writing advice from author Lee Child. George Orwell on writing is from The Economist. Advice For Scientists Who Want To Write For The Public is not written by a famous writer, but it’s still good and I’m putting it on this list for now. Feedback is welcome.
The best books of the ’00s | Books | Best of Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the ’00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about what was significant as well as beautifully executed, which book from a given author represented his or her best of the decade, and so on. So consider these alphabetically listed selections 30 of the many, many memorable books published this decade, and as always, let us know what we missed. Non-fiction: Devil In The White City (2003), Erik LarsonIt’s easy to imagine Devil In The White City as a historic true-crime novel, devoted to telling the chilling story of the serial killer H.H. Freakonomics (2005), Steven D. Nixonland (2008), Rick PerlsteinThe long 5 o’clock shadow over American politics gets his due in Perlstein’s exhaustively detailed tome on how the 37th president shaped his country.