Comments on: And Today’s Gusher Award for Achievement in Hyperbole Goes to … http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/and-today%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/and-today%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-6178 Sat, 17 May 2008 01:54:34 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-6178 You’re very welcome. Some of these hyperbolic lines make me question some of my choices, too. (I was the book critic of a daily newspaper for 11 years, and I wonder if I got through more than a decade without using at least a few of these …) Thanks so much for getting what I’m trying to do with these.
Jan

]]> By: oh http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/and-today%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-6177 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:12:00 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-6177 Whoa. You made me recheck something I had just written myself and handed in, one of those puffy sentences that almost means something but doesn’t quite hit the nail on the head. Let’s see what the editor does with it…yikes. (Yesterday it seemed ok, but now in the finally sunny light of day and having had some sleep, it..might…just…be…an…annoyingbitofhyperbole.

Your entries are not only about authors’ works but also serve as a cautionary tale to those of us who write and should maybe take yet another look at what we’ve put on paper before sending it in.

Thanks!

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