31-Day Blog Challenge, #30 WHERE HAVE YOU TRAVELED Oh, it’s almost a Roy Batty moment, this. “I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… All those… moments… will be lost in…Continue readingMy Roy Batty moment
Some books are slightly more ‘guilty pleasure’ than ‘classic literature’, Buzzfeed says, and offers 30 examples. Well, a lot more actually since so many of them are series. The Princess…Continue readingCan ‘Guilty Pleasure’ books be awesome?
Author James Patterson plans to give a million dollars to independent bookstores and Shelf Awareness asked him why. “I’ve become very concerned about the reading habit in America. I think…Continue readingWhy is he giving $1 million to Indies?
A luminous collection of quotes and photographs from around the world centered on living in joy. To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide…Continue readingJoy captured in photos
From The Terminator to Back to the Future to Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, movies love time travel – but it’s strictly for men. Anna Smith wishes she could…Continue readingWhy can’t women time travel?
If you had to quickly flee both your home and country, what one thing would take with you? It’s a question that too many people around the world actually have…Continue readingWhat one thing would you take?
Kurt Vonnegut called the semicolon a “transvestite hermaphrodite representing absolutely nothing.” He was wrong, James Harbeck says. Among the latest shocking news in the world of lexicography is that “tl;dr”…Continue readingIn defense of the semicolon
In yesterday’s blog salad (what I call the blogs I fill with short linked items that interest me), I had something from the Edinburgh book festival about authors’ favorite words.…Continue readingMy favorite word? I can only pick ONE?
A video alphabet: At the Edinburgh international book festival, The Guardian has been asking writers such as Alasdair Gray, Neil Gaiman and Ruby Wax to come up with their favorite…Continue readingAuthors’ favorite words