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Category Archives: On Reading
My Obligatory Harry Potter Post (Booking Through Thursday)
My work read today was the first in a proposed series… so it felt appropriate to post about Harry Potter using this week’s meme from Booking Through Thursday.
Do You Really Know About Books?
Last night’s work read was essentially Ian McEwan with a lesbian twist.lin Dewey has a fun round up of links called “This and That” up at her blog today. Thanks to her, I wasted far too much time at Bibliofemme taking quizzes about books. I did pretty well on characters & first lines, but tanked when it came to questions about publishing history. Also, I’ve added a new feature at the bottom of each post: click View Random Post to be taken to a random…
Bookworms Carnival is Up!
Dewey at Hidden Side of a Leaf kicks off the brand-new Bookworm Carnival with an outstanding selection of posts. I’m looking forward to diving into all of these. The next carnival will be hosted right here at Reading is my Superpower. The topic? Surviving the Dog Days of Summer: Books That Take Your Mind off the Heat. The deadline to submit posts is August 10th and you can do so right here.
I’m Not Happy With This
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Books to Film (Booking through Thursday)
I’m putting this post up in honor of an adaptation project I’m working on right now. From Booking through Thursday: 1. In your opinion, what is the best translation of a book to a movie? 2. The worst? 3. Had you read the book before seeing the movie, and did that make a difference? (Personally, all other things being equal, I usually prefer whichever I was introduced to first.)
How Can I Be a Book I’ve Never Read?
Via Catch-22, I mean, Dewey: You’re Ulysses! by James Joyce Most people are convinced that you don’t make any sense, but compared to what else you could say, what you’re saying now makes tons of sense. What people do understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once brilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content to wander around aimlessly, taking in the sights and sounds of the city. What you see is vast, almost limitless, and brings you additional…
Not As Bad As I’d Feared
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Keep Away from the Genre
Last night’s work read saw a celebrated author of so-called “literary fiction” attempting a murder mystery. Great characters, fabulous dialogue, smart ideas–terrible plot. Why? The writer doesn’t know the first thing about genre satisfaction. This happens from time to time. A “real writer” will decide to take on a genre, thinking that it must be easy otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of them. But what said “real writer” doesn’t understand is that true genre excellence comes out of love for what the genre has…
I Rock!
At least Bybee thinks so. And I think her blog rocks so this made my day. So, now the rules state that I have to nominate 5 blogs that rock. This is hard, because the litblog world also happens to be filled with great writers. But I shall try. I’ll start with my girls Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt at Good Girl Lit. Anne & May write Christian chick lit that’s fresh, funny, and not at all preachy. And their blog has a similarly quirky…