One of my last visits to the library had me spotting an interesting book in the creativity section: Kick-Ass Creativity: An Energy Makeover for Artists, Explorers, and Creative Professionals. I HAD to grab it, and it spent 6 weeks with me (renewed once) before I was forced to return it yesterday, after rushing through the last one-third (while I ( Read more... )

I've been reading almost all non-fiction for the last few years, with the exception of the Monster Blood Tattoo fantasy trilogy, which is incredible and that I highly recommend. And while the FAE team blog was looking for fantasy movie/book reviews, I slyly reviewed the following two books from Machaelle Small Wright, which read like fantasy/ ( Read more... )

The publisher's description of the book, and the author's short bio at this pageI honestly wrestled on whether to post this review, but since reader reviews of this book have been rare that I could find, I thought I'd put mine out there. Two things I must confess: My mum's side of the family is Peranakan. Not filthy rich ones though, nor even rich ( Read more... )

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I had to pause several times the first time I watched this, I was laughing/crying so hard. Maybe one needed to know Kate Bush's work first. I can't say which comedic dance video I've watched more often now, Robert Webb doing Flashdance or Noel Fielding's Wuthering ( Read more... )

Someone on my friendslist (sorry, I forgot who) pointed to this page a while ago: The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim's Princess Shawl | Cabinet Des Fées, and I made a note to find the book and read it. As it happened, I ran into it at the library in the children's section, so it came home with us ( Read more... )

Honestly. But what really prompted this post is this: http://inkstone.dreamwidth.org/105450.html (Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix re-covered ( Read more... )

We interrupt this broadcast (the multi-parter, heh) to make a quick entry that's part book review, part epiphany.

First, Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Values (Or, The Affluenzas) was my entry last year on reading two books about consumer culture. Now, I'm near the end of a parenting book (oh, hold your groans for a sec) that's making me think about ( Read more... )

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Mansfield Park and Mummies:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony,
Ancient Curses, True Love,
and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

Heer in peekturs:


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WHAT A COOL TITLE! I thought. Actually, I still think so. It's nothing if not evocative. I would love to read the anthology, but the cover... Oh, the cover. You can see it on John Scalzi's blog and I thought it was a joke (thanks, Genreville).

I think spongmonkeys are funny, and I can get with their aesthetic on YouTube, Quizno's commercials and ( Read more... )

They're giving Liar a new cover. Yay!Although, some of the remarks about cover art/design as a "marketing tool" strike me as kind of silly or irksome. I'm not complaining about changing art to incorporate more diversity, but switching a pencil from a boy's left hand to his right in the cover art so that it'll appeal to a wider audience? REALLY? OMG ( Read more... )