Ahh, friend cats reading about friend humans! Ever wonder what your cat does while you are away? At Bustle, Caitlin White explains and illustrates. No matter how great your book…Continue readingCats and books
On a New York subway Reinier Gerritsen doesn’t think books will be around much longer, Jordan G. Teicher writes at Slate. That’s why he took a photo every time…Continue readingReaders Everywhere
With two suns, Kepler-16b is a real-life version of Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in the Star Wars films. All photos: Nasa The US space agency has created a series…Continue readingNASA Travel Posters
Narnia – a scene from the Disney film: Photo by c.W. Disney / Rex Features. Have you ever wanted to escape to a magical world of fun and mayhem? Lindsay…Continue readingMagical worlds
Ice on trees and snow on the ground, beauty mixed with danger. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA In The Guardian, Richard Hirst gives us ghost stories by the fireside and perilous…Continue readingLiterary Winters
Or just the best gift? The Bookbar, which bills itself as “A book shop for wine lovers, A wine bar for book lovers”, offers us The Top 15 Reasons why…Continue readingThe only gift?
Look, I fully understand that the world is a-changing. And in order to deal with that change, I am fully committed to the fact that my books, my stories, are…Continue readingAnd now, the REAL book!
An author’s year of reading “literature” The writer, at the Lord Dudley in Woollahra, with a selection of the books he has pored over. Photo: James Brickwood It seemed such…Continue readingLiterary? Really?
…but we already have 12 Star Trek Gadgets from the 24th Century John Brandon tells you about them at Mental Floss. Wikimedia Commons On the original series, Kirk and crew…Continue readingIt’s only Stardate -309971.68
Jennifer Schaffer of BuzzFeed has selected some of the most beautiful sentences in literature (below), and that made somebody ask me about what I like in my own works. I…Continue readingWhat do YOU like?