I've reviewed difrancis 's newest book Bitter Night both at Barnes and Noble and at Amazon. It will take some time before my reviews (under my reviewer-pen-name waxen wings) will show up in either place.

When I am no longer feeling fuzzy with sickly funk, I'll post something a little more detailed here. But basically, it was a fabulous read. I honestly had ( Read more... )

So, in addition to having exceedingly minimal internet time available to post stuff lately, I also feel like I have very little interesting to say.

Applied Lit Crit plugs on. I continue to be surprised at the magical combination of a teacher who relates well to me and the fruits of years of writing practice equaling lots of high marks for what ( Read more... )

Today I survived three works by Virginia Woolf. Saturday morning I read quite a bit of TS Eliot. While the two seem nearly as opposite as I can imagine two authors who were contemporaneously publishing in the same country to be, I found that I couldn't agree with either of their works on what fiction should be like ... because in radically ( Read more... )

A couple of things, in order of importance:

First: one of my very dearest friends, Rachael B. aka
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A few hours ago I finished reading The Strange Cae of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Those of you who read my blogs often know of my general distaste for Victorian prose. Hark ye! Stevenson is SO MUCH BETTER than other Victorian prose. Not just that, he's more than able to compete for a spot among my favorite authors.

( Specific comments on Stevenson as well as Jekyll and Hyde contain some spoilers ... )

I use the *Living Social: Visual Bookshelf* application on Facebook. It's got a bunch of cool features which this post is not about. But when I was going through just now and updating some things, I wrote an informal review of the third or so translation of the Iliad I've read and stumbled upon another review ... written in the style of Robert ( Read more... )

MisCon was fabulous this year! I attended panels on World Building, Plotting (run mostly by writers who are self-avowed pantsers***, which I thought quite funny, but the info was still plenty useful), Dialogue, Getting Started as a Writer, The Naughty Bits, and probably others I'm forgetting. I also got to hear Patricia Briggs read twice, and shadowhelm ( ( Read more... )

So, difrancis is word-warring with people. And I have no idea how to play the game … even though they tried to explain it to me. But I did post a review of Di’s latest book, The Turning Tide on Amazon and Barnes and Noble earlier the text of the latter is under the cut.

( crossposted from my B&N review ... )

Mom is visiting, with the intention of finishing the alterations to my Bride's Maid's dress. And most of today was actually spent shopping.

I mentioned in my last post that I got a copy of difrancis 's new book, The Turning Tide, but I also got the really cheap Barnes and Noble Classics editions of Gulliver's Travels and Pride and Prejudice. I am ( Read more... )

Among many other adventures the last few days, I had the high-point distinction of finding a lone copy of difrancis 's newest book The Turning Tide in my local mall's Waldon bookstore. I told the guy at the counter how excited I was to find it because it wasn't due out until the fifth, and he wouldn't sell it to me after that until he'd checked the list of ( Read more... )