I have some fears about the end of the book. Feel free to spoil me on this particular point.

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Just heard that Tanith Lee passed away this weekend. Her Tales from the Flat Earth series blew my mind back when I was in college. I had never read anything like them before ( Read more... )

The Family Connections program of Boston Children's Hospital has a project called Tell Me A Story that trains Head Start teachers to help kids learn to talk about emotions, using kids' picture books to start discussion. Lots of interesting materials on that page, but the one I'm pointing out in particular is all the way down at the bottom of the ( Read more... )

I'm running out of day... better post something!

I got a nice comment today on my very first Yuletide story. Was that really 10 years ago??! It still collects comments and kudos every so often; overall it's probably the most popular thing I've written. It's Little Women fic -- Jo/Laurie fix-it, but the real point of the story is that LAURIE ( Read more... )

I spent last Friday sick in bed reading The Goblin Emperor. Aside from the sick part, it was a lovely way to spend the day ( Read more... )

This is less an actual book review, and more a story of my life, and why these books were written JUST FOR ME. It covers The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, and maybe the first 2/3 of Wintersmith. Argh, scratch that, looking at the time and the amount of stuff I still need to do today, AHFoS will have to get a separate post.

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What I am reading:

At work: The Developing Mind (2nd ed.), by Daniel Siegel. For my purposes, this is a really terrible book. It would be a really excellent book for some other people and some other purposes, so this is not a condemnation of the book. The subtitle of the book is "How Relationships and the Brain Interact To Shape Who We Are", and ( Read more... )

For those who are curious (but not curious enough to be tracking the post), I have compiled a list of the recommendations people made (and have appended some commentary):
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I feel like returning to my roots... I'm craving actual written sci-fi ( Read more... )

Me: "So.... have I missed some obvious clues or something?"

::quick google::

"Nope, guess not!"

So, for those of you with visual imaginations, how do *you* picture Hilary Tamar when you read these books? Right now my mental movie has got a rather beefy middle-aged woman, but that could change....

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