These days I've professor Tolkien on my mind, given that next week-end hubby and I will be in Dozza of the painted walls for a Tolkien-themed festival and exibition.

Thinking back to the Professor's fortune and to the recurring accusations of being classist and racist I found myself with a fragment of memory nagging at my mind ( Read more... )

...to be able to get the illustrated digital version of Ming Li and the Charmed Phoenix for free ( Read more... )

Happy Easter!

Ming Li and the Charmed Phoenix is part of a free promotion of children's books from today to April 9

Besides a lot of free books there's also a free raffle, you can find the details and a link to all the free books on this page

Signal boosting is very much appreciated.

Some of you might remember the paranormal romance I used to post here, I stopped posting due to a bad case of writer's block but things are slowly going back to normal and Viola and Xiaowen are speaking to me again ( Read more... )

Italian stylists Dolce & Gabbana (who are also a well known gay couple) in an interview voice their support to the concept of 'natural family' (meaning a man, a woman and child(ren) ) and their disagreement with practices like surrogate maternity (which, by the way, is illegal in Italy) in a very sedate, reasoned way, with no hint of condemnation, ( Read more... )

When Amazon announced immersion reading I was thrilled, while I've never really been into audiobooks per se, the possibility to read an ebook and to simultaneously listen to it was drool-worthy for someone like me, who has learned most of her English by reading and still has trouble with diction sometimes (not to mention that my instinct for ( Read more... )

I'd been struggling with writer's block for quite a while, recently I decided to get back into play-by-email role-playing to see if I could shake something loose and start writing something...anything again.

New Fleet (we sim Star Trek), new character... and yesterday this happened.

That kiss stretching
seconds into eternity
Event horizonIt has ( Read more... )

I'm back (sort of,more reading than posting at the moment ( Read more... )

I just saw this and I have to share.
Been there,done that, not with Alzheimer but I'm familiar with the disorientation, hallucinations, confusion, mixed-up sleep patterns. It took a lot out of us and there were 3 healthy people in the family, thinking of caring for an Alzheimer patient alone is stuff for nightmares.

Originally posted by davesmusictank at ( Read more... )

...A feathered one, though ( Read more... )