Posts under ‘Books’

It rained last night, but I don’t think we got as much as other places. This year an odd trend has emerged, where the radar shows a line of storms heading right for our little dot, but as they reach the dot they either weaken and die, or they weaken and re-form just on the [...]

When I don’t blog/spew regularly I get nervous. Nothing I say on here is earth-shattering, but it appears I need to say it. I want to start posting every morning, even if it’s just what I ate for dinner the night before. You can ignore those posts, but at least I still get my daily [...]

I don’t usually go into religion on this blog, mostly because I’m a big ol’ wuss and don’t want to cause problems, but Writtenwyrdd’s post about books banned from school libraries made me think. I hope this comes out semi-coherently.
Wyrdd says about the banned books,
And the main factor appears to be, once again, religious intolerance.  [...]

I saw some news about a Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time on the Fantasy Book Critic’s blog this morning. Not only do they have a graphic novel of The Eye of the World coming out in April, 2009, but there is also a movie planned. I CAN’T FRICKIN’ WAIT!!!!
It’s too bad RJ isn’t here to [...]

My son is in 1st grade and reading pretty independently, but yesterday’s book, The Spider and the Fly, was a bit out of his range. I don’t mind reading the books he brings home. He loves anything scary or strange, and I often enjoy the books as much as he does. This one seems especially relevant for me at [...]

Another insightful post from Moonrat today. Rather than rehash the whole topic, I’ll just post the main message I wanted to pass along, and hope that you’ll go read the whole post at EdAss. I strongly feel that if you’re working toward a career in writing of any sort, Editorial Ass is your place.
So here’s [...]

Well, people, guess what I did. I threw myself back into the world of socializing adults, that’s what, by going to my first ever book club meeting down at the local library. A few weeks ago I saw a flyer in the library’s window advertising the book club, and luckily one of the members had [...]