Last year, when I was really depressed and having a hard time, my mom gave me this book. She told me to just read it when I needed a laugh and wanted to feel better. I did just that. This book was like medicine. Its so funny and so real. I had never read any books by this author, but she has tons out there and I plan to check them all out at one time or another. I would recommend this book for anyone, but I will say that it is more geared toward women than men.

I got this book when I was in college back in the early 1990s. I still use it to this day. Its well worn, even though its pages are laminated. This book is a must have for any writer or person in college. It will tell you how to handle just about any writing situation from verb tense to defining voice and tone. It can be used for creative or technical writing. If you suck at grammar and punctuation, this is a good tool for you too. If you do not know or remember all the rules of the English language, this is the book for you too. I would recommend it for everyone to have on hand.

A good friend of mine gave this book to me recently and I love it. Its written by a teacher of poetry and written in a way I do not really know how to describe. She gives you lessons to do throughout the book that will improve your poetry and inspire you to write or give you ways to seek your own inspiration, but she also tells you stories from her own experiences that lead up to each lesson. Her stories show how the lesson at the end of the story has helped her or her class to write. I found this method of writing very inspirational and fresh.