Happy 2018, everyone! May the new year bring more joy, love, and other goodness to us all ( Read more... )

Because I am rather sleep-depped but want to post something anyway. This version of the booklist meme has been swiped from
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Because I don't remember anyone else posting this link, and because it's the sort of thing many of you would have posted if you'd run across it:
The Social Networks of Superheroes.

Link via Chris Moriarty's blog. Following the links also brought me to this post about "eurekometrics", which will probably be of interest to those of you who think ( Read more... )

Characteristic Ages of Genres, via
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Two small cherry trees at the top of the street are covered in pink today ( Read more... )

A book found semi-randomly one day when I was wandering through the library's card catalog, Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection turned out to be exactly the sort of book I like. From the book's description as found inside the cover:

In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella ( Read more... )

Last night I watched The Time Traveler's Wife, which proved to be a great way to indulge my love of cheesy time-travel stories. One thing bothered me, though. I am, as far as I can tell, very much a heterosexual woman, so I don't expect to be attracted to unclothed women on screen. However, I'm pretty sure my reaction to seeing a topless woman' ( Read more... )

Why do I do this to myself? Why do I keep checking out new age fluff from the library and reading it? No, that's not the question. The question is: Why do I keep reading new age fluff by authors who try to support their mysticism with "science"? After all, it's not the metaphysics that bothers me; it's the physics. I'll be reading along ( Read more... )

September 27-October 4, 2008: Happy Banned Books Week! Celebrate by picking up one of the most frequently challenged books from your local library or bookstore! This is somewhat US-centric, but those of you in other locations can probably find or figure out what books would be on a similar list where you are ( Read more... )

Prompted by yesterday's Entertainment Weekly movie meme, I went to the EW site to see if there were any other interesting lists over there. I quickly went to the list of The New Classics: Books ("The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008") and, well, I'm embarrassed to say that I've read even fewer of the books on this list than I've watched movies on ( Read more... )