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My Challenges (perpetual)

100 SHOTS OF SHORT
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CHECKIN’ OFF THE CHEKHOV
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THE COMPLETE BOOKER
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MARTEL-HARPER CHALLENGE
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MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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TAMMY'S BEYOND BOOKS CHALLENGE

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New Yorker: 0/36
New York Review of Books: 0/20
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Booking Through Thursday - May 8


"Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books, dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library?"

These types of books aren't really my thing. I have a dictionary that my grandmother gave me years ago, but that's it. Well, kind of. I have 4 dictionaries in my office, all of them acquired from the scavenger hunt that always ensues when someone quits or otherwise moves. I didn't need them, didn't especially want them, but somehow they're mine anyway. One of them is a law dictionary -- I'm a lawyer, so that one gets used the most often. Another is the complete Oxford English Dictionary, which I wanted because you can't get the OED online without a subscription. I also have a few other legal writing books in my office that I use occasionally, but only because that type of writing is so specialized. But for grammar and the like, yuck. And most definitely not at home. And for work, all our writing gets reviewed by someone much better at grammar and punctuation than me, even with the help of a book, so I say let him have it.

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