Eschew these overused book review words

A reality check for all those many book reviewers and magazine editors out there:poignantcompellingintriguingeschewcraft (used as a verb)muse (used as a verb)lyricalThis is a list of what Paper Cuts, the New York Times book blog, says are the seven deadly words of book reviewing – words that aren’t bad in themselves, but which crop up with “wearying regularity” in book reviews.Commenters added