... and as I think it's a really fitting analogy (why yes, sometimes C.S.Lewis says intelligent things!) and it goes with something that I often notice in discussions of my main fandom (and sometimes even within the fandom), I thought I'd just post it here for you to share and also for me to remember ( Read more... )

Why oh why are children (almost) always incapable of writing in books? Whenever they show you something supposedly written by a child in a book, the orthography is horrendous. As though there's some secret rule that all children must, by nature, suck at spelling. Why? I mean, I'm aware that I may not be the norm, but I for my part never had any ( Read more... )

Ok, people. On Die Wolke. I hate to break it to you people, and I hate to sound like the book-whore that I am, but that book isn't really the most recent. It plays at a time when there was still a GDR border with armed posts, and when apartheid was in full swing down in South Africa. Both, by the way, are mentioned in the book and kind of vital to ( Read more... )