Half.com saves the day
Mar. 26th, 2008 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicSo I've been wanting this book titled Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction. It's more or less a textbook, and priced as such...about $40 on amazon, with used copies being around $24.00 or so.
However, I found a used copy on half.com for $17.99 + shipping. Sold!
It's been so long since I used half.com that my account still had my maiden name and my grad school address on it. And a credit card that expired four years ago. Hehehe.
I'm surprised I remembered my password to log into my account.
Anyway, I've been playing around with the idea of taking a nonfiction writing course, but I think this will have the same sort of impact, only a bit less expensive. Well, and I lose the advantage of having peers review my work, but that is what my writing group is for anyway. I might still take one though...I just have to wait a bit. Anything I sign up for this upcoming semester will be interrupted by my trip to New York.
I started a 1400 page novel today - Hunger's Brides. I really don't know if I'll get through it or not. I'm about 30 pages in and I really don't know what's going on. If I don't finish it, no biggie. I bought it for $7 at Barnes & Noble and I can always sell it on amazon. Or I can use it as a doorstop. ;)
I finished The Triumph of Deborah last night, the third novel from Eva Etzioni-Halevy. I've read and reviewed her other two novels, and always got very nice emails from her afterwards thanking me for my comments about her books. She even quotes me on her website and links to my reviews, which I think is very cool. So I was more than happy to review this third book of hers, and I liked this one very much as well. But for some reason, I am having a bit of a problem writing the review. I guess I'm just not feeling it today or something.
However, I found a used copy on half.com for $17.99 + shipping. Sold!
It's been so long since I used half.com that my account still had my maiden name and my grad school address on it. And a credit card that expired four years ago. Hehehe.
I'm surprised I remembered my password to log into my account.
Anyway, I've been playing around with the idea of taking a nonfiction writing course, but I think this will have the same sort of impact, only a bit less expensive. Well, and I lose the advantage of having peers review my work, but that is what my writing group is for anyway. I might still take one though...I just have to wait a bit. Anything I sign up for this upcoming semester will be interrupted by my trip to New York.
I started a 1400 page novel today - Hunger's Brides. I really don't know if I'll get through it or not. I'm about 30 pages in and I really don't know what's going on. If I don't finish it, no biggie. I bought it for $7 at Barnes & Noble and I can always sell it on amazon. Or I can use it as a doorstop. ;)
I finished The Triumph of Deborah last night, the third novel from Eva Etzioni-Halevy. I've read and reviewed her other two novels, and always got very nice emails from her afterwards thanking me for my comments about her books. She even quotes me on her website and links to my reviews, which I think is very cool. So I was more than happy to review this third book of hers, and I liked this one very much as well. But for some reason, I am having a bit of a problem writing the review. I guess I'm just not feeling it today or something.