From Aguirre to Zipes: A Collection of Book Reviews, and a Few Interviews with Authors

From Aguirre to Zipes: A Collection of Book Reviews, and a Few Interviews with Authors

by Lois C. Henderson
From Aguirre to Zipes: A Collection of Book Reviews, and a Few Interviews with Authors

From Aguirre to Zipes: A Collection of Book Reviews, and a Few Interviews with Authors

by Lois C. Henderson

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Overview

Who better than a retired librarian and educator, with an Honors degree in English (Literature) and an M.A. in General Linguistics, to write meaningful and relevant reviews of a wide range of books, stretching from works on Folklore and Fairy Tales to texts on Language, Philology and Literature? This collection of book reviews crosses a vast range of genres in its scope. and is ideal for resource centers and libraries. Most of the reviews have already appeared on the websites BookPleasures.com, or the New York Journal of Books. Each of the reviews is given in its original format, with the addition, space allowing, of short excerpts from the books to whet the appetite of those who are interested in acquiring the specific texts. Of the 261 book reviews contained in From Aguirre to Zipes, 69 have been quoted, either in full or in part, on the related authors' or publicists' sites. Each of the quotations is indicated in a different color to the main text, in order to indicate which portions of the reviews were seen to be the most capable of drawing the attention of prospective readers. The highlighting of the quoted portions should prove useful to those who are in the business of promoting books, whether their own or those of others. Several useful indexes are provided to the authors, editors, compilers, illustrators, translators, titles and publishers. In addition, thumbnail illustrations of the cover of each book are included for easy identification of the texts in question. The book ends with a few author interviews that reflect the way in which such interviews can be structured. In short, the work should prove a handy introduction to the online book reviewing world, and could be used to supplement existing primers at college and secondary school level.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781544789101
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 07/22/2017
Pages: 386
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lois Henderson has an M.A. in General Linguistics, an Honors degree in English, a Higher Education Diploma and a Higher Diploma in Library and Information Science. She has a great deal of experience in reviewing books, and a keen interest in a wide range of subjects, stretching from preschooler education to palliative care. Her working life has encompassed many aspects of both the artistic and the scientific world. As a freelance back-of-book indexer and academic editor, she has had extensive exposure to a vast variety of texts. Her concern for wildlife conservation can most recently be seen in the series of interviews that she conducted with Ginny Stone, author of the Sibo series of green books that has as its focus spreading awareness of the environment among young learners in the developing countries, primarily South Africa.
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