UncoveredMyths reviewed The artful edit by Susan Bell
Review of 'The artful edit' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
What ages would I recommend it too? Fourteen to twenty-one.
Length? A few weeks.
Characters? No characters.
Setting? Writring.
Written approximately? 2007.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Yes. Not in a good way.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. Please provide a defined terms section.
Short storyline: A $5.00 word romp through the edit process. Do not attempt to read without a writer's dictionary. Or a computer close at hand to look them up.
Notes for the reader: After a few dozen uses of the undefined word "leitmotiv" I was finally at a computer to look it up. Then, it was finally defined, loosely, on page 81. Needless to say, there are dozens of words that need to be defined that are not. A few I might have known the definition to a few decades ago. Others may be newly …
What ages would I recommend it too? Fourteen to twenty-one.
Length? A few weeks.
Characters? No characters.
Setting? Writring.
Written approximately? 2007.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Yes. Not in a good way.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. Please provide a defined terms section.
Short storyline: A $5.00 word romp through the edit process. Do not attempt to read without a writer's dictionary. Or a computer close at hand to look them up.
Notes for the reader: After a few dozen uses of the undefined word "leitmotiv" I was finally at a computer to look it up. Then, it was finally defined, loosely, on page 81. Needless to say, there are dozens of words that need to be defined that are not. A few I might have known the definition to a few decades ago. Others may be newly coined terms. Not a book to be read while traveling. The constant use of unknown terms distracts from an otherwise helpful read.
As a low vision reader - this book deserves a 2. Don't bother. Tiny, thin type. Pages upon pages of italics in a row. Many words too long to see all at once.