A review by pdxpiney
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

Not a lit survey, and won’t tell you how to write. What writer wants that anyway, really? Prose pushes close reading and freedom from arbitrary rules. Many of the sources she draws on as examples I wouldn’t go near for pleasure, and that in itself was instructive: look what you can get out of this. Overall a bit dated, but again exercise your mind and learn from the book anyway.