Auger / Augur

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: AUGER / AUGUR The […]

Don’t Just Tell It Like It Is

When you are writing a memoir, blog, or other autobiographical material, treat it like a work of fiction inasmuch as the prose matters. Don’t equate […]

Literary Novel One Mississippi

One Mississippi, by Mark Childress     Kisses linger and bullets fly as sixteen-year-old Danny Musgrove comes of age in the early 1970s in literary novel […]

Assure / Ensure / Insure

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ASSURE / ENSURE / […]

Women’s Fiction Clock Dance

Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler     Daughter of a steadfast, loving father and mercurial mother, eleven-year-old Willa Drake wants to be a steadying influence on […]

Assume / Presume

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ASSUME / PRESUME These […]

Crime Novel Lesser Evils

Lesser Evils, by Joe Flanagan The seamy side of Cape Code rises to the surface in 1957 Hyannis when a sexual predator murders little boys in […]

Appraise / Apprise / Apprize

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: APPRAISE / APPRISE / […]

Short Story Collection Summer Lies

Summer Lies, by Bernhard Schlink     A flutist returns to New York after a summer on the Cape where he promises his new love he will […]

Anxious / Eager

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ANXIOUS / EAGER Many […]