Another Book Review

The Writing Class by Jincy Willett was a much better book than her The Winner of the National Book Award, which was written five years earlier.  The Writing Class is about an older woman who had once been a successful writer.  Having been married twice, Amy Gallup now lives by herself, except for the Bassett hound who barely tolerates her, and teaches one writing class a semester.  She teaches only because she needs the money to live; not because she enjoys it.  At least, that is what she tells herself.  Nothing of hers has been published for years.  Maybe she no longer writes, except vicariously through her students.

This writing class is different.  Oh, sure, all the same types of students are in it, the jock, the jokester, the one person who really knows how to write, etc.  But one of the "usual" students is a killer; and Amy must find out who before she herself becomes a victim.

This is a good book, easy to read, but one that will make you look twice at the people around you in your writing class.