I direct your attention to the Earthquake affecting Peru’s costal towns. A close friend told me that, although her relatives survived, her town (Pisco) is gone. Their homes are destroyed and their livelihoods are in jeopardy. People and businesses in Peru cannot obtain insurance because earthquakes are frequent. Many Peruvians are poor to begin with […]
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Take the Quiz here! I always liked Austen’s satire but now I can be a Regency character as well. It’s enough to make a girl swoon, or scheme. For those who like books inspired by the master, take a look at Martin Levin’s book column “Austentatious” in the Globe and Mail. Happy reading.
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Sunday I attended Kingship DeFacto by Adam Burgess at the annual Summerworks festival. This is a juried festival with considerable prestige in Toronto. The story is about Ben (Scott McCulloch), a wishy-washy politician under the influence of his powerful advisor Becker (Stephen Kent) who must decide whether or not to remove troops from the city
Meandering about the blogosphere, I found the Dystopian Challenge. Lisa at Books.Lists.Life even supplies a handy link to Wikipedia definitions and a Dystopian Reading List. Many of my favorite high school reads are listed: A Clockwork Orange, Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, Brave_New_World, Fahrenheit_451, Animal_Farm, plus William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels like Neuromancer, Idoru and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
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Heather of Errant Dreams Reviews is a pro reviewer, specializing in books on cooking, creativity, works of fiction and writing. What I like about the review site, which she maintains with technical reviewer Jeffrey, is the excellent organization. Quick blurbs with ratings are posted to the main blog as materials come in for testing —
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is a meme site, devoted to inspiring book-related memes. Here’s today’s question: Do you have multiple copies of any of your books? If so, why? If not, why not? My husband and I both love books. When we got married, we ended up with several multiples, usually in the SF category. Our most frequent furniture
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I couldn’t resist doing The Hogwart’s sorting quiz. My results were split evenly at 12 points each for: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. I only got 7 Slytherin points . It was cute that this netted me a “Gryffindor,” instead of split loyalties. The makers of the site know we all want to be heroes. I
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Eliot Fintushel is known for his short stories in magazines such as Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons and Amazing Stories. Fintushel has been nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. I enjoyed Fintushel’s teen novel, Breakfast with the Ones You Love. It features many of my favorite story elements: a charismatic heroine hiding behind a
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Nothing But Red will be an anthology of literary and visual arts inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon in response to the “honor killing” of 17-year-old Du’a Khalil Aswad. Proceeds from the fan-organized anthology will benefit Equality Now, an international human rights organization. Click on Nothing But Red for further information about
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Blogger is so much easier to use now. It took exactly three minutes for me to get my counter HTML back from Shiny Stat and paste it back in to my Blogger layout. Enough stopping to smell the roses. I should be editing.
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