Ever read anything by Maya Angelou? It's not easy. Or at least "I know why the caged bird sings" wasn't easy for pre-college CV when my college assigned it to be read before I arrived in the fall. It was probably good for my outlook, but whoa! was it different than anything else I'd read. I recommend it to all of you, particularly if you've never ( Read more... )

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This is about the Dragonriders of Pern books - the fairly early grouping, not some of the more recent ones. THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE - but the books are 46 years old, so I'm not bothering with a cut ( Read more... )

Do you read a lighted eBook at night before sleep ( Read more... )

The advance review copies in electronic format, are available for purchase through Baen. Also "free samples" are available from same ( Read more... )

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There are plot tidbits in there which really should have been in the graphic novels. Not a lot, but some are significant, such as ( Read more... )

Read the Hunger Games this weekend. It is a very good novel, although the sentence structure is a little simplistic. (On the other hand, the other book I've been reading is The Two Towers, so it may be suffering due to the contrast ( Read more... )

Seized by wanting to know more about a plot thread, I turned to the internet last night, searching for Entwives ( Read more... )

I was reading Fellowship of the Ring for the umpteenth time, and noted that at Crickhollow, the hobbits had a meal of mushrooms and bacon; I resolved to give this a try ( Read more... )