http://writehelpnow.com Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:57:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://writehelpnow.com http://writehelpnow.com/2011/01/26/read-to-write/ http://writehelpnow.com/2011/01/26/read-to-write/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:15:43 +0000 Reva Mann http://writehelpnow.com/?p=512 ]]> I’ve been waiting for Zeruya Shalev’s book Thera to be translated to English since the original Hebrew publication two years ago. After reading her other books, especially Husband and Wife, I grabbed the first copy off the Steimatsky shelves last week and have sunk into her brilliant, melancholy writing once again. The reason I like reading her so much is because she helps me open up my own writing and frees me to make random associations like she does with her superbly original metaphors. Read to write. Not to copy anyone else. Just to deepen your own original voice. Try it!

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