Tag: reading
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Self Images
Written by Sanford Begley I re-watched an old western last night. How old? It was released the year I was born. The movie was called Cowboy and was about a kid learning to be a man. Some of the things the movie thought represented manhood look silly today, and Jack Lemmon was too old to…
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Reading to Write
A group of us were prompted to offer some advice to a group of young writers who were considering NaNo this year. You can find Brad Torgerson’s excellent post on the topic here, and if you follow the Mad Genius Club I suspect you will see more along that line – I did mine more…
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And the books lie in mouldering heaps
I was noodling around on the net and ran across a book last night. As I downloaded it, because it’s a Project Gutenburg book (free!), looks interesting, and I might read it, something occurred to me. We keep hearing that the book as a form of entertainment is dying. I know people who proudly proclaim…
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It’s all Literature
From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: “Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.” It is only within that broad generalization that we see…
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What’s in a review?
I realized as I explained why and how I review a book, recently, that it’s been a while since I did that here on the blog. I do have a bit of a review philosophy: I try to only review the good stuff. There are valid reasons for negative reviews, and I have done a…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Dashing out the Door
I’ll leave you all a link to MGC and the Visual Art article. And one to a book review of a book that made me blink and use unladylike words. And of course, this article about books people WANT to read, and why, goes with the above.
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Book Hoarding and Other Delights
There has never been a better time to be a reader. I’ve been reading since I was four, myself, which is a very small slice of the past when viewed in relative terms. But I am also a student of history. it wasn’t that long ago that books were individually precious, treasured and cared for…
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Rebooting my Brain
I’m blogging over at Mad Genius Club today on how I’m going to get back into the swing of writing after this long break. I’m back. I didn’t mean to take two weeks off from blogging, but that’s what it ended up being. It’s not that I haven’t written anything in two weeks, just that…
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Review: Jim Butcher
I finished Dragon Noir, and ended the trilogy I’d begun writing almost 3 years ago now. Which mean I could finally finish reading a series I’ve really enjoyed. My mental voice is too close to these books to allow myself to read it, and thus flavor my writing, while I was working on the Pixie…
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Curmudgeon Review: Camelot in Space
I was reminded of this book recently. I first read it three or four decades ago. So I looked on Amazon and it, with the sequels, were a penny each. This book was first published in 1965. If you have read Christopher Stasheff’s 1979 work The Warlock In Spite Of Himself you have read something…