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.
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?
10 Books I Can’t Live Without
I found this meme over at Bookfoolery and Babble, and heaven knows I love lists. These are the 10 books that form the backbone of my library, the 10 books with which I would never part, the 10 books that I will always reread at every stage of my life. That’s not to say that I could live without any books but these, but that I need these books to be me. Continue reading
