You know what? This one is essential reading. I kid you not.It was the summer of 2003, and a younger, sillier, blue-haired version of me was studying for my Masters at Warwick U. One afternoon I noticed that a bestselling novelist was giving a talk on creating fantasy universes and while I hadn't read him at all at the time, I had enough friends ( Read more... )

Writers, in a way, are like cooks ( Read more... )

There are times when you reluctantly rise from your comfortably cocooning Sunday afternoon bed, the sun streaming on your face as you keep turning (both yourself and your persistent phone, onto 'silent') and tossing, burying your face in a pillow -- but as said, irked or not, you're up now. And really not in the mood for the usual ( Read more... )

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Million obvious reasons, of c. In this particular context, however, we talk of recommendations.

The point naturally being stuff you wouldn't normally have picked up.

So it was that diffdrummer gushingly recommended the soundtrack of The Train, something that came as pleasant respite from standasd Bollywood-y music. I've always been inclined towards melancholic ( Read more... )

Especially when they look like this:


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No, no LJ-cuts ( Read more... )

"Sabrina was the brainy Angel. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart."

"Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty."

Okay, so it took an expose by her native student body publication, and Kaavya Viswanathan admits she ( Read more... )

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Since everyone on my friends list is awesome, I'm not going to get into the leave a comment and I'll tell you how you rock my world meme, simply because I'll overuse all my superlatives.

Instead, because I've been feeling particularly magnanimous, I've decided I know you well enough to recommend a book for ya. So leave a comment, and I'll try ( Read more... )

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Rereading Lolita these days.

Now, when we start a sentence with the word 'Overtly', most of us standard-issue mortals would like to open the corresponding clause with something like Inwardly, perhaps. Or Internally, or even Invertly, if we were trying to plain and simple cheeky.

sigh

But Nabakov:

( How the Divine works )