(I’m hearing Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element when I read the subject there. Yes, I probably could have found a sound clip and included it, but I’m counting on your imaginations and memories here.) Well, I finally got around…
Author Recommendation: Nicola Griffith
I read Griffith’s first novel, Ammonite, shortly after it came out. It was, for many years, the best first novel I’d ever read. I also read one of the Bending the Landscape anthologies she edited with Stephen Pagel, and it…
Further Prof of Insanity: Blog365
I got through NaBloPoMo, as ridiculous as it was to commit to posting at least once a day for a month. So of course that small success has led me, in a moment of more-than-usual-lunacy, to sign up for Blog365…
I Have Done More Than Twittering!
For one thing, I have several draft posts sitting around here, but I haven’t been able to stay focused long enough to finish any of them. Sam caught some kind of flu-like crud, which Katie and I both caught, of…
Review: Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
I’m way behind on book reviews, so I’ll try to do one each day for a bit. Emphasis on the try. I’ve read some great stuff lately that deserves the attention! I’ll start with the most recent book, Carpe Demon…
Review: Bump in the Night by J.D. Robb, et al.
This paranormal romance anthology contains four novellas. I’d never heard of three of the authors, but I haven’t really looked to see what else they’ve written, either. They may be well-known to romance fans. I fell into reading J.D. Robb’s…
Is There A NaNoReMo?
I think I want a National Novel Reading Month. I could do a novel a day (as long as I chose the right novels, of course). I’m behind on writing reviews, but I’m wallowing unabashedly in the number of good…
The Three Love Systems From Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
From today’s Delancey Place newsletter: In the terrain of the human heart, scientists tell us, at least three independent but interrelated brain systems are at play, all moving us in their own way. To untangle love’s mysteries, neuroscience distinguishes between…
More Fun Reading from Carrie Vaughn
I really needed another fiction author to follow, right? But I’ve seen this series of books about a werewolf named Kitty, and I finally got a chance to read them. I finished the first, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, today…
Reading
So, the Crazy Hip Blog Mamas want me to talk about what reading means to me or my child. How about both? You might have noticed that I talk, a lot, about reading. I think Now Reading shows at least…