I rewrote 90,000 words in September, but I realize that was two months early. I will write something ( Read more... )

Anagnorisis (/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɨsɨs/; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. Anagnorisis was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realisation of ( Read more... )

This evening, I began reading Jessica Day George’s Dragon Slippers. I was more than a hundred pages into the hardback when I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable déjà vu. Although I had no memory of reading the book before, certain things were familiar. I knew what was going to happen. It had the mudslide feeling of inevitability: I didn’t ( Read more... )

When I was a child, my father was a minor celebrity in my home state. We had our house egged once, someone sent death threats a couple of times, and complete strangers would come up to me (until I left the state, years after his celebrity had ended) and ask me about my father. I was used to him being in the newspaper and on television and on the ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed how the "oooh oooOOOoooh" of distant sirens sound remarkably like ghosts?  Their modulation is almost exact.  Could it be possible that the origin of the ghostly ooh was itself somehow born of the Doppler effect?

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The fish in the video really does look like it has human teeth. But I'm actually posting it to share that Ruby theorizes that this is because, when the tooth fairy takes baby teeth, she grafts them onto fish.

Songs which happened to come to mind of which I am very fond, alphabetical by composer's surname ( Read more... )

Interestingly enough, the origin of the word 'teh' is not, as many believe, from a typo of 'the'; indeed, the invention timeline of the two words is reversed.  The word 'the' originates from ancient misspellings of the word 'teh,' originally 'Tehh.'  Tehh's story is, for the most part, lost to time, and few scholars now dare -- or care -- to ( Read more... )

 (ech-ooshkya), a Scottish waterhorse, found mainly in the Highlands.  Similar to the kelpie, except instead of inhabiting creeks and rivers, is found in the sea, fresh- and salt-water lochs.  Can shapeshift easily (more easily than the kelpie) into a fine pony or horse or a handsome man.  While it will accept sheep and goats, and is attracted to ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, I am recording and rating every book I read this year.  I have read 137 so far.   Although the year won't end for another month, I thought that I'd put up some of the best books here.  The following books I rated between 4.5 or 5 out of 5 stars and were, in one way or another, absolutely incredible.  No spoilers, just ( Read more... )