11 YA Books With Happy Endings I’m not really a fan of everything-will-turn-out-well-in-the-end books, either as a reader or author. In fact, a reader once asked me in exasperation, “Have…Continue readingHappy Endings
Claire Fallon talks about words so overused that they’ve become meaningless and offers 12 examples. Do you agree? Disagree? Have an addition? Awesome! ~~~~~ The Most Influential People In 3500…Continue readingLiterally unique. Really?
The other day we tripped over a movie on TV – “Snow White: A Tale of Terror”, vintage 1997. I’m always one for a good re-telling of a good old…Continue readingUnhappily ever after…
Most painters use a brush or palette knife. However, BuzzFeed tells us, artist Iris Scott has mastered the art of finger-painting. Just like a piano player does not play a…Continue readingFinger painting genius
Someone just found my website, apparently by using the search string “Secrets of Jin Shei Film”. Aw. Bless you for your faith and confidence, whoever you are. And oh,…Continue readingFilming Jin-shei
Greg Ross writes at Futility Closet that Noam Chomsky once offered the expression Colorless green ideas sleep furiously as an example of a sentence that’s perfectly grammatical but is pure…Continue readingColorless green ideas
The following story by Linda Grant about culling her library in a move, fills me with superstitious fear. I go to my own shelves and gaze upon them, trail possessive…Continue reading‘I have killed my books’
— in theory and in practice An animated video features an 81-second TED-Ed lesson called “Lessons from Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words.” Watch it (link below), but the gist…Continue readingThe power of words …
F. Scot Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda battled depression and led lives that eventually spun out of their control. They weren’t the only writers on that list, Cody Delistraty writes…Continue readingWhy are writers depressed?
The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada In the mid-1990s, there were approximately 120 feminist bookstores in the U.S. and several in Canada, Anjali Enjeti reports at…Continue readingOnly 13 left?