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Great Relationship Quotes

Jonathan Marcus wrote 3 days ago: Sometimes the best way to say something is the way someone more literary than you has said it.  In t … more →

Tags: Great Relationship Quotes, Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Robbins, flavia-weedn, Caroline Myss, Mark Twain, Gillian Anderson, Aristotle, Helen Keller

Recent Reads: "Lavinia" - Ursula LeGuin

saraletourneau wrote 6 days ago: Ursula LeGuin is best known for her fantasy and science fiction books, from the Earthsea cycle to … more →

Tags: Recent Reads, Recommended Books, lavinia, Historical Fiction, The Aeneid, aeneas, mythology, books published in 2008, Ancient Rome

[*Relationships*]: "Quotes for Your Enjoyment!" 2009

jb100159 wrote 1 week ago: Relationship Quotes: “for Your Enjoyment!” from [THE GREENLIGHT MINDSET ] Relationship B … more →

Tags: hiphopADVICE, Love and Relationships, hiphopLOVE, The Magic of Making Up, Oprah Winfrey, Relationship Quotes, Anthony Robbins, Caroline Myss, Gillian Anderson

Attention Span 2009 - Eileen Myles

Steve Evans wrote 2 months ago: CA Conrad | The Book of Frank | Chax Ambar Past with Xalik Guzmán Bakbalom and Xpetra Ernandez | Inc … more →

Tags: Attention Span 2009, Jennifer Moxley, ca conrad, Ámbar Past, Xalik Guzmán Bakbalom, Xpetra Ernandez, Peter Trachtenberg, Reb Anderson, Carol Samosek

Deep breaths...

dfogarty wrote 2 months ago: “The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao”. There’s a thing. Many of the world’s readers, on … more →

Tags: Introduction, self-promotion, startling wit

Traveling with Ursula Le Guin

benfrancisco wrote 3 months ago: Just finished Changing Planes, a recent collection of short stories by Ursula Le Guin.  The narrator … more →

Tags: Fantasy & SciFi, Fiction, Recommended Books, changing planes

15 Books (I'm a copy-cat)3 comments

portablecity wrote 4 months ago: I’m following Diana’s lead and using this as an excuse to tell you about books I adore. … more →

Tags: Gripping Stories, Kitchen, Douglas Coupland, the once and future king, T. H. White, The Riddle-Master, patricia mckillip, The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

Watch Your Brand Extension! Oops. You've Just Extended Too Far.3 comments

Tein wrote 5 months ago: Ursula LeGuin, a well regarded sci-fi and fantasy author, is releasing a new book in September.  Bar … more →

Tags: Marketing, Branding, Oddities, Villeroy & Boch, Burger King, Cheetos, brand extensions

Shared Worlds Interviews1 comment

truscifi wrote 6 months ago: Matt at Enter the Octopus is spreading the word about an interview conducted by author Jeff VanderMe … more →

Tags: Authors, Science Fiction, China Mieville, "elizabeth hand", interview with scifi authors, Jeff Vandermeer, Michael Moorcock, Nalo Hopkinson, shared worlds

Booklist 2009 # 25: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

Eric wrote 6 months ago: For years I have watched the cult of Ursula LeGuin spread the word of her greatness as both the epit … more →

Tags: Reviews, Booklist 2009

False foreshadowing3 comments

Elizabeth wrote 6 months ago: Since Ellie validated my mistaken reading of GIFTS over in that post’s comments thread, I thou … more →

Tags: LeGuin, Ursula, gifts, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fantasy

American Fiction3 comments

ccyager wrote 6 months ago: As I was listening to a Minnesota Orchestra concert broadcast recently, a concert primarily of Ameri … more →

Tags: Fiction, Reading As a Writer, Minnesota Orchestra, Novels, Reading, Osmo Vanska, Edith Wharton, American Fiction, American Classical Music

'The Building' by Ursula K Le Guin1 comment

Martin wrote 8 months ago: This is the sort of anthropological science fiction Le Guin is famous for and this is a particularly … more →

Tags: SF, Short Stories, redshift

Who inspires you?4 comments

Second Wind Publishing wrote 8 months ago:   If you write, chances are that you are also a reader. I am an avid reader and that question, … more →

Tags: Mairead Wapole, writing, Second Wind Publishing, Authors, Thoughts on Writing, Mairead Walpole, Inspiration, Reading, orson scott card

Utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry's The Giver

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 9 months ago: Lois Lowry paints a deceptively harmonious picture of the future in The Giver.     Imagine a world i … more →

Tags: Current Books, Facing History and Ourselves, Lois Lowry, the giver, Jonas, gabe, The receiver, Elsewhere, Newberry Award

The Child that Books Built, Francis Spufford4 comments

Jenny wrote 9 months ago: I read about this on Nick Hornby’s Waterstone’s “Writer’s Table” – authors pick out books that are s … more →

Tags: 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, CS Lewis, Narnia, Diana Wynne Jones, Memoirs, Nick Hornsby, The Child That Books Built, Francis Spufford

Potlatch Day Three

J.S. Bangs wrote 9 months ago: This was the day we packed out. There was a 14-hour drive back to Seattle that needed to start early … more →

Tags: writing, potlatch, vylar kaftan

Potlatch Day Two1 comment

J.S. Bangs wrote 9 months ago: (I’ve been incredibly busy for the last several days, so I haven’t had time to blog anyt … more →

Tags: writing, potlatch

Mini-review: The Lathe of Heaven1 comment

forwearemany wrote 9 months ago: It took me months to finish Ricardo Reis and only a day to finish The Lathe of Heaven. I try to take … more →

Tags: Reviews, Flannery O'Connor, Knut Hamsun, SciFi, take that nobel prize, The Lathe of Heaven


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