There is so much to read and write and do and experience ( Read more... )

Is that silly damned woman still rabbiting on?

Lovely books. Silly author. (Happens all the time. Conan Doyle created the great reasoner in fiction, then went off to be gulled by table-rapping and fairies in the bottom of the garden.)

At this very moment - whilst Some of Us are confronting dodgy weather, flood, and Being Yet Rather Chilled Although It Has Been An Entire Day Since the Boxing Day Meet - Mr Pyle is finding, on Facebook, that those who were up at university with him yet remember every article, leader, review, report, and outrageous bit of humour he wrote then. And ( Read more... )

I did promise to mention when B&N / Nook had Cross & Poppy. Consider it mentioned.

In materially unrelated news, we at Bapton Books - having seen the social media meme w/r/t ‘ten books that have “stayed with” one’ - decided that was inadequate, and have been recommending numerous books in very many categories. It may be of some utility to those ( Read more... )

… a last bit of fandom critical analysis (I truly do loathe the term ‘meta’).

( Can we make up our minds, please? )

( But criticism is different to attempts to censor, and to mere abuse. )

( There is proper criticism.... )

( Character, canon, and the plausible. )

( Proem. )

Yesterday, I wrote about criticism. In the past, I have written about Not Doing the Research as being a form of appropriation. A wise comment from Matilda on yesterday’s post has drawn my attention; and impelled a conclusion. Whatever the excuse: ‘it’s only fanfic’; ‘the rest of us are simply trying to have fun’; ‘you, Wemyss-the-Killer-of-Joys, ( Read more... )