Fantasy Series, Reading Ladies & More–Selections from Problogger’s Top 5

In honor of today’s work read, a police procedural that left me hungering for Ruth Rendell, I give you my list of the posts I’ve enjoyed so far from the Problogger Group Writing Project:

Top 5 Most Entertaining Foreign Films of the Last Decade

An fun list of films, though I would quibble and say that City of God isn’t exactly “entertaining” in the traditional sense. I’d replace it with Strictly Ballroom, unless he’s being strict about foreign language films, not just foreign films–which seems to be the case, because Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a Hollywood film. But I used to be a film nerd for a living, so I’m allowed to quibble. Continue reading

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Three Character Meme

Found this meme courtesy of Amy, the Sleepy Reader.

Name up to three characters . . .

1. You wish were real so you could meet them: Continue reading

Emotional Reads

I like to be moved by literature, which is why I don’t go crazy for metafiction or postmodernism or overly intellectual fiction (Don DeLillo, Thomas Pyncheon, etc.). Such was the book I read yesterday for work.

Otter asks,

What are the five books in your library (or memory) that stirred the greatest emotive reaction in you?

What I mean is, what five (or more) books most brought you close to tears, laughter, anger, whatever?

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