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Farewell, Robert.1 comment

Kullervo wrote 14 hours ago: Robert Holdstock died today. His books, which I read my senior year in high school, were instrumenta … more →

Tags: spirituality, Books, Fiction, Hero, Heroes, Humanity, Lavondyss, mythago, mythago wood

Steal This List!

amyking wrote 14 hours ago: CONTEMPORARY QUEER POETS Grow this list – Proliferate! Redistribute! I initially started this list a … more →

Tags: Politics, pop culture, Lesbian, Gender Politics, Gay, Celebration, Love, sexy, Creative Writing

Post-NaNoWriMo Wrap-up

hoomanbeink wrote 14 hours ago: Final word count: 50,620 words. Final character count: 279,215 characters. Average word length: 5.12 … more →

Tags: book, Novel, NaNoWriMo, National, writing, month, November, WorDs, Prose

Great! Illustrated Classics

highonhomeschool wrote 14 hours ago: I discovered these a couple of years ago and started stocking up slowly.  We have maybe ten of them, … more →

Tags: History

War & Peace

Erin wrote 14 hours ago: Dear Mr Tolstoy: If you take out the parts about war that don’t involve Andrei, you have an ok … more →

Adventures in Manga

TGW wrote 14 hours ago: Have I ever told you how much I hate manga? Because it’s a lot. Same goes for its more active … more →

Tags: Arts, bloomsbury, History, London, Museums, adventure manga, anime, British Museum, manga

Contest: Deadline 12/1

roxieh wrote 14 hours ago: Books for Books Blog Contest! By participating in blog contest, you can help get books to kids and i … more →

Tags: speculative fiction, nonfiction, Fiction, Children's, Contests, Fantasy/Science Fiction, Links, Graphic Novels, Memoirs

Another NaNoWriMo Excerpt

Seth Riddell wrote 15 hours ago: V “If we’re primates . . .” Chris started, “Why don’t we still have fur?” They’d gone to a restauran … more →

golf at the hague

littledebbieoatmealcookie wrote 15 hours ago: SETTING: a southern B&B community. PLOT: an unfortunate surprise casts doubt on peace! TIME: … more →

Tags: 1, Art, Fiction, Fringe, Poems, Poetry, Recipes, Short Stories, Stories

goats on hillside, beep beep1 comment

littledebbieoatmealcookie wrote 15 hours ago: we ate, each of us, a bucket of ham to go along with enough bread all right and we drank a pound of … more →

Tags: 1, Art, Fiction, Fringe, Poems, Poetry, Recipes, Short Stories, Stories

My December Office

Aridhi wrote 15 hours ago: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic Whom have I in heaven but you? And besides you I desire no … more →

Tags: Jesus Christ, Life, Marriage, translation, the excellent wife

What Is So Great About Gatsby? Part One.

ellietreagust wrote 16 hours ago: Currently I reside on page 105 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’. You ma … more →

Reading Joyce

thebicyclops wrote 16 hours ago: On 16th June 2004 I was at a bar in Dublin explaining Joyce.  The sceptical local who faced me was c … more →

Tags: Books, Joyce, Culture, Reading, Ireland, Dublin, PIERCE, dujardin, david pierce

Farewell Lilley Press

dianapoulsen wrote 17 hours ago: Reviewers always seem to be the last to know. It is with great sadness that I tell you that Lilley P … more →

Tags: Lilley Press, Beyond the Wizard's Threshold, Steel Traveler of Urth, Foresight, Sherry D. Ficklin

The Roundup

Jordan Ferguson wrote 17 hours ago: So what’s been keeping you literary types entertained out there this week? The Guardian Books … more →

Tags: reportage, Namedropping for Googlejuice, The Roundup

Me and Chick-Lit10 comments

litlove wrote 18 hours ago: I consider myself a literary omnivore, consuming just about any kind of book unless it’s horror or s … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Review

Contests and Competitions

roxieh wrote 18 hours ago: Not a contest, but an opportunity:  Arkansas Press’ Moon City Review 2010 An Annual of Poetry, Story … more →

Tags: Poetry, speculative fiction, nonfiction, Fiction, Children's, Contests, Fantasy/Science Fiction, Links, Graphic Novels

A Modest Libertarian Proposal: For Secessionists, Separatists, Radical Anarchists, Anti-Government Absolutists, Conservative Neo-Republicans, Randian Objectivists, Tea-Baggers, “Me, First & Last” Social Darwinists, and Conspiracy Theorists

Rhys M. Blavier wrote 18 hours ago: I did a LOT of driving this last week-end, a LOT. This gave me a great deal of time to think and pro … more →

Tags: corruption, democracy, libertarian, Libertarian Party-US, Libertarian politics, Personal Responsibility, Politics, america, Anarchy

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

gustines wrote 18 hours ago: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, by Louise Murphy. Penguin Books (2003), 306 pages. “Through the … more →

Tags: Fiction, Bialowieza Forest, Book Reviews, Books, Excerpt, Holocaust, Louise Murphy, Reading, Reviews