Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, When I'm doing the creative work of editing, I often need to take breaks. For me, this isn't usually time dependent but more along the lines of segments. For example, I'll take a break after a section or a chapter or even a tricky paragraph description. Sometimes I'll do something physical, like suffering through a few pushups or peeling vegetables for steaming. But sometimes, I just web surf. Cute animals...
15 days ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, New goal level unlocked: Books, time, writing space, Paris, and all social media/publicity prohibited! Close your eyes and picture it: waking up in Paris, spending your days writing and reading, following in the footsteps of Ginsberg, Baldwin, and Hemingway. Will one of you be one of the lucky 20 this year? Think a friend would appreciate Editorial Notes? Send them this link to sign up: Refer a Friend! (And...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, I'm late to the party here (so many books! so little time!) but Virginia Evans' lovely novel The Correspondent is one of the best books I've read this year. It reminded me a bit of an older book in which an entire relationship plays out in the back and forth letters between the two characters who start out as strangers and become much more than that. It had something to do with a marble. Anyone remember...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, I can be an annoying person to watch movies and series TV with because I am rarely surprised by the supposed twist and not exactly quiet about it. A perfect example was last century's (ha! I picked an old one so as not to spoil a current one for you) M. Night Shyamalan movie The Sixth Sense. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the promised SHOCKER at the end which, when it came, was a...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, As a nerdy middle schooler, I asked my parents for the Oxford English Dictionary as a holiday present one year. Not the single volume, simple dictionary my father gifted, but this one, the multi-volume definitive history of the language: OED I wanted the improbable set largely due to my fascination with etymology, i.e., the entries detailing word origins and their shifts in meaning over time. I told you I...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, A subscriber and fellow bibliophile shared this piece from LitHub: Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania. On a recent trip to Seoul, I got to experience the absolutely gorgeous Starfield library, the shelves of which are more than 40 feet tall. A whole lotta books and a happy place indeed. Starfield Library, Seoul Think a friend would appreciate Editorial Notes? Send them this...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, I have no idea how this started, but in my family, my then-teenagers started to falsely-on-purpose "correct" any spoken usage of less to fewer and vice versa. "Use a little less flour." Response: "Fewer flour." "Fewer leaves to rake than last week." Response: "Less leaves." This ridiculousness went on for so many years that I now, genuinely, have to stop and think which word is actually correct. (Fewer is...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, I just finished a light, fun read, This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something–Anything–Like Your Life Depends On It by Tabitha Carvin. IYKYK 😉 My son is an actor, and his mannerisms remind me of Cumberbatch's Sherlock. Do with that useless info what you will. Think a friend would appreciate Editorial Notes? Send them this link to sign up: Refer a Friend! (And if you’re the...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Editorial Notes = clarifying information, additional insight, annotations Hiya Reader, In advance of the upcoming lists of "best books of the year," I've been plowing through the books on my TBR pile. I know I'm making progress — I'm reading! I'm doing it! — yet somehow the stack doesn't seem to shrink. Is there a word for this? My father's reading log numbers pages and pages and pages. Yet he still, somehow, read some books more than once, not realizing until as much as three-quarters of the...
4 months ago • 4 min read