Being Wednesday, I thought it might be a good day for a post related to the Bard. So I bring you the opening of Act IV, Scene 1 from Macbeth:

SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches

First Witch
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.

Second Witch
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.

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Fresh off my recent review of I Shall Wear Midnight, the last book in the Tiffany Aching YA series, comes news that Terry Pratchett has won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults.

That is a speech I would love to be there to hear. If only I could win a trip to New Orleans for the ALA Conference . . .

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. . . or at least just noticed by me.

The next of Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching/Discworld books, I Shall Wear Midnight, is scheduled for a September 28, 2010 release. It's available for preorder online, but no cover image has yet been released.


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The quote in today's icon is from The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (make that SIR Terry Pratchett). In case you can't read it clearly, it says "Ye can tak' oour lives, but ye cannae tak' oour trousers!" God I love Pratchett. Particularly the Tiffany Aching books. Particularly the Nac Mac Feegle (Wee Free Men). But I digress.

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The quote in today's icon is from Jane Austen. I just found a slip of paper whereon I'd written the following quote from Terry Pratchett's A Hat Full of Sky:

Change the story, change the world.

And yeah, I've quoteskimmed that one before, but truly, it bears repeating.

Today, the lovely liz-scanlon sent me an email with a link to a blog entry by Rosanne ( Read more... )

I've been thoroughly enjoying my time this year with a large clan of small blue men in kilts known as the Nac Mac Feegle, and I think I might be a little bit in love with their creator, Terry Pratchett. So I'm finally getting around to telling all of y'all about these three YA novels that I've been quoting from and referring to off and on for ( Read more... )

The quote in today's icon is from one of the first two Mummy movies. Yesterday's post had my thoughts on The Mummy 3. Even though I was disappointed in it, I still recommend it for all writers.

"Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth."
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Nothing major to see here, so if you're pressed for time, by all means, move along ( Read more... )

Today's icon quote is from Dr. Who, of course.

Sometimes, the quotes I find aren't from books and writers' magazines. Sometimes they're from news items, museum walls, and magazines that are all about entertainment or home improvement. Today I'll be sharing quotes from that latter category with you.

On Shakespeare

"Shakespeare is a heavy drug. ( Read more... )