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  • Not that I needed to expand my reading list

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    BUT lots of interesting reading suggested at SF Signal. In this case, non-genre titles for genre readers. And there’s also recommendations on literary fiction for people who hate literary fiction at Emerald City.

  • The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid

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    “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…

  • All growed up

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    Over at filomancer‘s blog, some interesting comments are being made about the apparent decline in SF readership. Sometimes I think that what’s happened is that sf has become too sophisticated for its core audience, which used to be teenage boys. Their attention span, and maybe yours and mine, isn’t going to last through three paragraphs’…

  • May you live in interesting times

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    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*…

  • Things best left unknown

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    I’m blocked. I was reading this book, quite happily — well, not *quite* happily, that’s the problem, that’s why I slowed, stopped, looked around. And when I looked around I became — — blocked — — unable to continue with confidence. It was weird, but to start from the beginning: when I was, what, 19,…

  • Books, again, of course

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  • That book meme thing

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  • Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me

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    Because I needed things from the hardware store, I went to the hardware store. And then the bookshop. Why? I had no need of things from the bookshop. What I needed was a litre of exterior paint in the shade of Moonglow, & a couple of those sponges that are also sanding paper. (They’re washable,…

  • Bury my heart … er… with the rest of me

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    Andre Norton wanted to be cremated with her first & last books. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html How weird & delightfully creepy. When I go, I’d like to be buried with four of my closest friends. You guys don’t mind, right? Also, Norton was 93 & they had to rush her last book off the press so she could…

  • A world without ending(s)

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    Paul Wells admits to be a ‘serial book-unfinisher’ over here at macleans.ca, & it got me thinking: just how important *is* an ending, anyhow? Have our lives become too darn busy for proper resolution? Or have endings just ceased to be important? Someone once said that you can tell how much you’re loving a book…