Maurice Sendak died this morning.

Don't go. I'll eat you up; I love you so.


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singeaddams just linked to a message from Terry Pratchett saying he's been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.

An Embuggerance.

It was just this past March that I was squeeing over obtaining a signed copy of Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three.

I still remember reading The Chronicles of Prydain for the first time and wanting to learn anything and everything about Welsh mythology. Alexander, along with Alan Garner and Tolkien, opened up new worlds of high British fantasy ( Read more... )

Sent to me by my sister-in-law: Margaret Atwood on women and writing, published in Saturday Night magazine, 2001.

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

I'm thinking of many of you as I read this.

♥

And on a purely shallow note (because really, today, I need this distraction and a second viewing), Bunnie does Elwood's ties ( Read more... )

Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut.

I'll always associate him with first year university, the thrill of questioning and a professor whose tangible enthusiasm for the written word still inspires me, all after these years.

Farewell.

*hearts him*

I can't write for beans myself, but I never tire of reading about those who do.

From here.

*sob*

As a kid/teenager I LOVED her Witch World novels. I still have a little crush on Kerovan from The Crystal Gryphon, and Joisan was one of those females that just really kicked ass for an impressionable 12 year old. I still remember discovering and thinking it was really cool that "Andre" was a woman. Her worlds were a great source of ( Read more... )