The Daily Reader: 366 Selections of Great Prose and Poetry to Inspire a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life

by Fred White

Book Overview

Let Great Reading Fuel Your Writing Great writers read-voraciously and across many topics and genres. They read to learn, to research, to study the style of others, and to improve their own work. They... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582975892
• ISBN13: 9781582975894
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Enrich your reading life

I had the pleasure of editing this book. This book is packed with bite-sized yet deep readings from all sorts of topics and time periods. Fred White shares from the wealth of being well read in a format that's accessible. His observations on each excerpt make the book even more engaging.

a literary sampler

The Daily Reader caught my eye when browsing at my local book store, and when I saw that one of the excerpts is from The Library at Night, that closed the deal and I brought it home and began reading immediately. This book could be a nifty Christmas gift for a book lover and aspiring writer; the selections are laid out in calendar order. They are just morsels, but can leave you hungry for more. After the book quote White adds his own relections and then a writing prompt tied in with the theme of each exerpt. There is also a subject index which shows a wide scope of topic areas from anthropology through history, medicine and health, all the way to writing. To me, this is like Gump's box of chocolates. I eagerly anticipate opening up the box and seeing what I'll discover next. I am jotting down the sources of the most tempting samples so that I can feast on more later.