I'm currently about 100 pages into a 250-page book (in ebook form, specifically Nook format) and I'm finally getting into it. In fact, now that I've learned a lot more about the title character, I'm probably unhealthily over-identifying with that character (because there is, of course, a HEALTHY way of over-identifying with a fictional character ( Read more... )

Probably safe for work, unless you work someplace really weird...

I've been reading Joseph Anton, Salmon Rushdie's account of the years he lived under the fatwa, the death sentence from Iran's highest-ranking religious leader, because of what he wrote about a fictional religion that too closely resembled Islam in The Satanic Verses. I just read this passage:

He was beginning to learn the lesson that would set ( Read more... )

1. Chris, Rachel and I are in the early stages of the sixth season of Lost, but not watching an episode tonight because she's at the high school with her best friend, attending their film festival. Chris has already seen all six seasons and keeps assuring us, "It never stops getting weirder," every time we insist it has gotten the weirdest it ( Read more... )

Cutest book review EVAR.And in writing news... Don't you love it when you realize that you've got at least 30 scenarios to write for the backstory and THEN it'll all be impossible unless you figure out who held a certain kind of job at the business you're writing about (and there are never more or fewer than 7 people in the type of job in question ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Rothfuss,

I'm enjoying The Name of the Wind, I really am. However, since I've reached the point in the book where the young protagonist (who is a bit over-the-top in his perfection, but that's another issue) is studying "sympathy" (magic) at the university, I've noticed a particular habit in the writing: whenever the robe that one of the ( Read more... )

My ankle is still hurting but not as much as it was earlier today, so with any luck I can go back to the gym tomorrow ( Read more... )

I am probably refreshing the tab with Maureen Johnson's blog way too often in hopes that she has posted another installment of her reader's guide to Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Now I should probably read her books; she's a pretty funny person. If she's ever short on money, though, she should NOT ever work for the Cliff Notes people; if everyone ( Read more... )

Sorry to be so behind on this!

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