From the Guardian, an interview with writer Toni Morrison. I really like her points about the importance of owning your feelings and the way the significance of female friendship has been neglected in literature.

On a completely different note, what if George Eliot's masterpiece Middlemarch had been conducted via the medium of Facebook? (Hat tip: @ ( Read more... )

Before we get to the epic barbarian art and horror movie posters, I thought I’d start with some serious links about writing.
Although I enjoy a bit of writing (as my several blogs attest), I’m not sure that I’d like to do it professionally, but for those of you who do have such ambitions, via @HarriKay on twitter we have Chuck Wendig’s, 25 Things I ( Read more... )

I was hoping to make a start on my enormous backlog of posts and get some actual writing done this week, but an evil head cold has left me with just enough energy for a link round-up and nothing else.  The rest will have to wait until the New Year.

Let’s start with something serious.  From Lambada Literary, one for the queer theory fans, a review of ( Read more... )

We are spending it quietly this year, just staying in and watching The Haunting of Hill House.  We haven’t even carved a Jack O’ Lantern, but Andy doesn’t think there’s much point unless you can display it on your porch, which is difficult to do when you live in a second floor flat.

Still, here are some Halloween links:

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Angel Does Stuff on tumblr  - this cracked me up.

So did this, They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard

Speaking of Tolkein, here are the first official photos of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins

Xkdc makes a point about the Earth’s core

From Bad Reputation, unsung women in astronomy

From Final Girl, some awesome horror movie posters

And The F-Word has ( Read more... )

Fashion it So! A Star Trek fashion blog.  Hours of fun.

From Heroine Content, a review of the anime film Blood, The Last Vampire

Ursula Le Guin on the Sci-Fi channel’s whitewashing of her Earthsea series

From the FWord a review of the ‘Bloody Women’ strand at the Bird’s Eye View film festival - this was a mini-season of horror films by female ( Read more... )

From Tor.com, the top 10 best werewolves in movies and TV and the top 10 worst werewolves in movies and TV.  To be honest, they all look pretty silly to me.  I’m not sure it’s possible to represent werewolves on film.

George R R Martin’s favourite science fiction films.

Via Racialicious, an article celebrating Octavia Butler and a list of 40 ( Read more... )

This is from a couple of weeks ago, but great horror movie posters from Final Girl. I love the Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween ones.

I’m not sure whether or not I think feminism should care much about its image, but this is an interesting post about feminism and imagery from Bad Reputation: What does feminism look like? The answer: kind of ( Read more... )