January 2011
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“The media were on the thing like cats on a fish wagon.”
– Dr. Temperance Brennan, Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
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Last August I submitted a story/reflection to some crackpot contest. I just got an email asking for permission to include it in an anthology. They can’t pay me, but if included I will receive a complementary copy of the volume.
Y/N?
To my new friends: I hope I don't let you down! ...
Artsy Fartsy →
There’s something wrong with me.
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felinejumper asked: So I just found this lovely blog through effective use of the search bar, and I think that it is absolutely fantastic.
Also, respect, because it's not "OMG I love reading because of Harry Potter."
Cool. Bye :)
Also, respect, because it's not "OMG I love reading because of Harry Potter."
Cool. Bye :)
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“Send me letters from wherever it is you are going,” she said, touching me.
“I will,” I promised. ”If it’s the sort of place I can mail letters from.”
She poured wine into both our glasses.
“What time is it?” I asked.
“Nighttime,” she answered.
—- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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“Genius or fool, you don’t live in the world alone. You can hide...”
– The Calcutec, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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Tonight my Best Friend told her husband to tell me...
Best Friend's Husband: I put on one fun book! Well, it's about the holocaust....
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“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside them, and it’s much...”
– Neil Gaiman (via undreamedshorelines)
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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
openedmyheart:
mcnallyjackson:powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally ...
yesigrok asked: Hi! I've been enjoying your reviews and I have a book recommendation for you :) Have you checked out the Mary Russell series by Laurie R King? The basic premise is that Russell literally trips over Sherlock Holmes on Sussex Downs after he's "retired" from the consulting detective business, and basically becomes his apprentice in all things detection. I know, it sounds kind of...
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Galiano: What the hell's Ryan up to these days?
Brennan: He's a detective with the provincial police.
Galiano: Using his Spanish?
Brennan: Ryan speaks Spanish?
Galiano: We used to discuss passing members of the opposite sex and no one knew what we were saying.
Brennan: Commenting on their intelligence, no doubt.
Galiano: Sewing skills.
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American Library Association Reading Lists: The... →
If you’re going to have a category labeled “Women’s Fiction” then there really ought to be a category labeled “Men’s Fiction”. I mean, it only makes sense, right? There is “Children’s Fiction”, “Young Adult”, “Adult” and “Women”, but no “Men”? If we are going to make something exclusive...
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“Eat a man’s chips, you might want to know what kind of company...”
– Curtis Pearl, “F” is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
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the temporary vegetarian →
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Literary Allusion in the Age of Google →
It’s an interesting commentary on what we read and what writers read and what happens when the reader and the writer have read the same thing. And I think Mr Kirsch has a point about knowing your audience — not everyone has read Labyrinths by Jorges Luis Borges, but it’s likely that everyone in the English speaking world has read To Kill A Mockingbird or Green Eggs and Ham.
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“I walked to the study and flipped the wall switch.
And felt my mouth open in...”
– Dr. Temperance Brennan, Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lifeofliterature)
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Bitch Magazine published a recent interview with...
While responding to being asked how she feels about her writing being categorized as “feminist science fiction”, she said:
“Of course, no matter how delicately you handle the issues, if men aren’t the center and focus of your story, some men are going to hate it, dismiss it as chick-lit, call you a man-hater, etc. It’s the same phenomenon as when, for instance, the...
“For one thing, it was hard to imagine the kind of person who made a living that...”
– Kinsey Millhone, on “Hitmen”, “G” is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton
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Literary Bex.
Bonjor mes amis! Yes, I’m branching out and trying to assert myself in, yet, another forum. This time it’s through literature. Any sort of literature.
Mainly what I plan to do here is post book reviews I write of the books I read in the year 2011. Of course there will also be a smattering of literary quotes, bits from magazines, conversations, comments on television shows and...