Asking on behalf of an acquaintance, who writes:

Some years back I read a fantasy fiction trilogy. It was basically about a well meaning guy who turned out to be a god but didn't know it. I think the god of chaos, or maybe fire? He worked as a smith, and in the first book had crossed the waters to invade another land then stayed. At some point he ( Read more... )

Occasionally, a string of events or a conversation will remind me of the tragic fact that there are an awful lot of people in the world who are thoroughly unfamiliar with the splendid short fiction of Saki (H. H. Munro ( Read more... )

I first encountered this poem in a Victorian Literature survey class, my junior year of college; the prof (Bradshaw, for those of you who know WWC--because, seriously, who else?) read it to us when we were studying "Dover Beach" (he read us a lot of poetry, actually, which was one of many reasons I loved his classes). It's probably responsible for ( Read more... )

I'm'na start a meme!

On the assumption that in ten years, a lot of twenty-somethings will be re-reading Twilight and wincing in embarrassment ( Read more... )

(Or,
If My Brain Were Part of a Car, It Would Probably Be the Alternator)

Recently, I decided that I wanted to start reading again. I hadn't stopped, exactly, but I wasn't going through books as voraciously or continually as I used to, and I missed it ( Read more... )

(from moonkai

Book meme:

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime ( Read more... )

Yoinked from the comix-scholarship listserv: Marvel's looking for a Library & Inventory Intern. Looks like a cool internship, if you're a comics-inclined MLS student in the NY area.

( Full description and application information behind the cut. )

"Some philosopher - I don’t remember who - his theory was: You’ve got to give kids really beautiful children’s books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they’re young, when they grow up, they’ll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' ( Read more... )

via sharpest_rose.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the team of nearly two dozen staffers at the opposition headquarters will be “fact-checking” statements made by the Obama campaign and by speakers during the convention.

“Just consider this the Ministry of Truth,” quipped Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. ( Read more... )

Remember those two top secret projects I mentioned a while ago? Well, one's not a secret any more: I'm editing the new Dark Horse editions (and all-new graphic novels, after the first volume) of Guy Davis's marvelous creator-owned series, The Marquis.

If you're not familiar with The Marquis, it's one of the most incredible, terrifying, gorgeous ( Read more... )