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The (winning) Books

It’s Amazon day it seems as I’m about to promote another bunch of books…but here fortunately related to writing.

Jill Golick just posted about summer readings, and especially about what she is going to read, Pamela Douglas‘ Writing the TV Drama Series.
I read that book a couple of months ago and found it very interesting. As I also said in a comment I posted on her article, my next read will be Larry Brody‘s Television Writing from the Inside Out which promises to be an interesting read. It seems to delve more on the technical aspect of writing for TV.

Nontheless, with Douglas’ book earlier this year, I also read other interesting writing books:
– Successful Television Writing by Lee Goldberg and Willliam Rabkin (Kindle Link)
– Crafty TV Writing by Alex Epstein

I read as well books that pertained more about the biz and what goes on “Behind the Scenes”:
– A Martian Wouldn’t Say That compiled by Leonard B. Stern and Diane L. Robison (quick read but hilarious -or is it scary?-)
– Desperate Networks by Bill Carter (Kindle Link)

Last but not least there was also this book that is more a bible in itself: This Business of Television, by Howard J. Blumenthal and Oliver R. Goodenough.

If you get your hands on any of these books I strongly suggest you read them, they are just awesome (and incidentally full of advice).

Glucocorticoid Response Elements

Since I’m in the GRE adventure alone (I’m talking vis à vis the real world), I also have to prepare myself alone. Therefore I bought a couple of books about the subject.

My main concern was ironically the vocab section of the test and there is one book in particular, regarding vocabulary in itself, that I find particularly helpful: Essential Words for the GRE. It has got basically 800 “essential” GRE words with exercises, definitions, etc.
As I’m normally going to pass the GRE test in late Nov/early Dec of this year, I made myself a little schedule to learn the new words by heart (roughly 10 every 2 days).
As you know by now I’m lazy and a great procrastinator, so I have not made it very far in my schedule, but I’m getting there…hopefully.
There’s also this math section that I thought would be easy but it turns out it’s much harder than I expected so I also have to prepare for it (this is where this book will come in handy).

Hard work will pay off, so if you are also working on your GRE, or SAT, or other tests of some sort, go work on them in the long term, not the short term. Do a schedule like mine…but do it!

Shalom’s Lament

The book I’m currently reading is called Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander.
It’s a black-humour tale about what his childhood in an Orthodox Jewish Family was like and I must say it is indeed pretty funny…and also poignant.

Yeah it’s another short and kind of useless post but I don’t have much else to say…