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– The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I’ve read this book countless times and every time I read it, it’s still as wonderful as the first time. I love this book. It’s one of my favourites. Kostova is my hero. She writes all about Dracula and incorporates really interesting tidbits of history… it can be a …
Huh. I’m rather behind on this blog post! I blame it on Internet problems 🙂 I did a very bad job of tracking the books I read in October and I’m afraid I can only remember two of the books that I read, besides my nutrition books. I know I read more books than these …
This article investigates six ways your schoolteacher sabotage your business writing. Definitely worth a read! Number 6 really resounded with me. I recall being frustrated in grade school one time when a teacher crossed out the “And” at the beginning of a sentence I’d written, because it wasn’t “correct.” My response was that I knew …
Last week I was in Toronto for a few days, and I visited Occupy Toronto (Toronto’s version of Occupy Wall Street) the first night that it was set up. It was fascinating to witness the rhetoric of an international protest such as this one. Here are some of the signs that I snapped photos of …
Westwood showed this to me – it’s hilarious. Skip forward to Act 10 (about the 25-minute mark, up to the 28-minute mark). It’s a quick little way to demonstrate how a conversation plays out. Listen and giggle! Listen to the Neo-Futurists at work.
I’m not doing a very good job at posting regularly on this blog, am I ? Ah well. At least I did a lot of fun, light reading this month! Books I read (and finished reading) in September: – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling. Classic. Love love love. – …
This word is fantastic for a rhetoric blog. From the Canadian OED: Or • tho • epy noun The scientific study of the correct pronunciation of words. See also orthoepic (adjective) and orthoepist (noun), from the Greek orthoepeia, meaning correct speech.
Here are the books I read in August: – The Continuity Girl by Leah McLaren. I read this book before and I really enjoyed it. But when I read it this time, I was very disappointed. It wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered it. – Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding. Such a classic. …
Books that I both began and finished reading in July 2011: – Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. Ah Shopaholic! I’ve read these books dozens of times but hadn’t read them in a while. Still haven’t seen the movie, but it looks like crap, so I’m not planning on that (and that’s saying a …
I read this book in less than a week. And for a week I kept asking myself the same question, over and over: Why do people love this book so much? I’ll do my best to refrain from using profanity on the blog, but this book is going to give me *@$%ing nightmares. The content …
One of the women I work with recently sent out a few articles, and now I’m completely hooked on Ragan.com. Here are some neat tips you might find useful for your own writing: – 5 ways to write an e-newsletter people will read – Keep yourself covered with these 8 proofreading tips – Who vs. …
When I was younger, I received a book as a gift entitled The Handwriting Analyst’s Toolkit: character and personality revealed through graphology. This book is fantastic in that it has beautiful pictures and it examines just about every part of handwriting imaginable, deciphering your personality and mood at the time of writing based on how …
Books that I both began and finished reading in June 2011: – Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. I started this book a couple months ago, but finally finished it – and a truly fantastic book it was. I loved it. There were tears in my eyes at the end when she describes holding the …
Being the nerd that I am, I get such a kick out of logos that contain hidden messages. Click here to read an article all about hidden messages in everyday logos! A couple of my favourites are the hidden kiss between the K and the I in the Hershey’s Kisses logo: …the arrow in the …
I apologize for being MIA! Poor rhetoric blog has been neglected for a week or two. It’s funny how fast things can get busy. Things still haven’t quieted down for me, but in the meantime I’d like to share a fantastic article about branding with all of you. The Executive Director at the Foundation that …