Category: reading
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Some final notes from a cold brain
The lurgy is finally lifting, thankfully. For a while there it was impossible to sleep AND breathe simultaneously. Which can add a layer of difficulty to, oh, everything. From the weekend surfing: * Rebecca Solnit, “You know, a lot of my work has been based on the field of disaster sociology, which emerged after the…
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More from the day’s bedtime reading
Brain not much good today — kinda like a small child is living inside my head making ‘gah?!’ sounds at every new thing. But, lurgy has abated somewhat from this morning, which is cheering. Here’s some of what I read today: * Her debts now total a staggering $24 million, consolidated with one lender with…
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Better read
I’m home with the dreaded lurgy, so thought it timely to clean up the browser windows & list some of what I’ve been reading lately. * “These “lost” covers form a parallel universe in which the books we read and love exist in entirely different skins.” — Kill your darlings: an article on rejected cover…
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Booked
In my (new & ongoing) obsession with book production, I’m interested to find out about this publishing house via Jeff VanderMeer’s blog: Write Bloody Publishing. They proclaim: “We are proud of our unique style by utilizing modern painters, photographers and rock album designers for all our book cover art.” Of course, they publish only American…
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Serialised novels: Updated
With some shows, the writers have even engaged in such discussions and it’s possible the reactions of viewers have influenced future episodes. (Although not always: Buffy’s creator Joss Whedon said to his fans, “I’m not giving you what you want – I’m giving you what you need.”) We’ve heard TV types say that ‘each week…
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Reading up
Lately I’m loving the whatwasthatbook group on lj. Not only for its ability to find lost books (largely kids’ books, but also for the conversation style of its questions. See, for example: I read this book while I was in late elementary school – probably fifth or sixth grade (around 1999). I found it in…
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The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid
“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid” This from the Shadow Forest Authors website, whose goal is to stop global illiteracy. (They could, er, perhaps consider the intermediary goal of re-coding how their website pages open — always in new windows.) One of…
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Advertising: Killing with Kindness?
Actually, I think this is good news. We get sample chapters (as advertising) & the Sci Fi channel gets another reason to keep the exceptional scifi.com site alive. Tor Books, the largest publisher of science fiction and fantasy in the world, has teamed up with SCI FI Channel to bring readers SCI FI Essentials, books…
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May you live in interesting times
I am loving pepysdiary. Who knew a life that apparently dull could be so entertaining. Note to self: prepare an autobiography. Meanwhile, “Up by five o’clock, and while my man Will was getting himself ready to come up to me I took and played upon my lute a little. So to dress myself,” because *that’s*…