I'm not normally much into chick lit, but there are books that I've read and particularly enjoyed. When someone on the f-list asked for recommendations, I thought maybe someone here would be interested in a top post ( Read more... )

I originally started this post with a little demure "this is for the fanficcers, I wouldn't presume to tell the pros how to write" but y'know what? A great reference book is a great reference book and I'm not good at being demure anyway. Do media-oriented writing? Run thou out right now and purchase Alex Epstein's Crafty TV Writing: Thinking ( Read more... )

Banned Book Week is over, but the nonsense marches on. By now, most of the people on my f-list have probably heard about the guy who not only got his daughter out of reading Fahrenheit 451 in class but wants it banned from school. The reasons: It's got cussing in it, a Bible is burned, and it says bad things about "our firemen." (What, that ( Read more... )

Assorted things that might be of interest to the f-list:

For the Classy Literature Types:
Chaucer Hath a Blog, and now an emo Danish prince with family issues has an LJ at haml3t. Read, and weep with laughter. (cheers to mtgat for finding this!)

For the Less-Than-Classy Lit Types - Dr. Who
I read Steve Lyons' Doctor nine tie-in novel Stealers of Dreams ( Read more... )

I'm taking a step away from reviewing the mystery books to indulging my latest obsession doing the same for the new Who tie-in novels. First up: Justin Richards' The Clockwise Man and Jacqueline Rayner's Winner Takes AllBut first, a note on the the books themselves. BBC has been taking notes from the Harry Potter phenomina and releasing the ( Read more... )

U Penn has an online texts division, including a page listing banned books worldwide including links to the online copies of the texts.

Dear Author of a new series ( Read more... )

daemonnoire has been doing a series of reviews of banned books (Good stuff, go read it.) Today she's nailed Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" dead to rights:

I know I said that I would read all of the books in the Banned Book List, but I'm sorry, I just couldn't force myself to read the whole of this drivel. I was embarrased to be seen reading it. This is not ( Read more... )

No, really! "The first self-playing audiobook" (read: you can't upload to it or download from it, you can just listen to the single title burned on it ( Read more... )

In addition to some of the usual Christmas fare, I saw three movies over the weekend ( Read more... )