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Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing

By Blake
Created 03/25/2008 - 13:49

Over At The NY Times [1] Bob Harris says Out of laziness, haste or a misguided effort to sound “literary,” reviewers use some words with startling predictability. Each of these seven entries is a perfectly good word (well, maybe not eschew), but they crop up in book reviews with wearying regularity. poignant; compelling; intriguing; eschew; craft; muse; lyrical;


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