Scientist Gone Wordy

Title: The Big Sleep Author: Raymond Chandler Publisher: Knopf (1939)  There are many releases/publishers for this novel. Mine wa...

Back when I used to watch every movie that came out rather than just every movie trailer, back when I worked in a video store (pre-DVDs and ...

Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Penguin Classics (2003) Originally published in 1817 My love of Austen is no big...

Teleflora* makes a commercial equating women to prostitutes** (and NBC willingly broadcasts it) but it's M.I.A. making an immature and ...

Need a laugh? Click here . (hat tip: Sum of Me )

Title: The Maltese Falcon Author: Dashiell Hammett Publisher: Various, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask (1930) M...

(review format shamelessly ripped off from Apprentice Writer ) Title: Powder of Love Author: Summer Devon Publisher: Loose Id (201...

ETA: More on this topic. Shannon Hale makes a very good point in this post . To it, I would add that another limitation of only teaching...

Favorite fiction : Three-way tie! The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz The Known World by Edward P. Jones Shibumi by Tre...

This is a great interview of Rebecca Skloot with its main topic being structure. Very interesting stuff.

IF by Rudyard Kipling IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself whe...

I am on a forum for people who love flashlights. (so much love for the internet)

My first post was on Jan 19, 2009 (and in it i complained about fb! jeez! you'd think in almost three years i could have rustled up some...

Title: Rosemary's Baby Author: Ira Levin Publisher: Random House (1967) As we head into our holiday break, Michael had the sup...

 Brief notes on stuff I really wanted to like but, ultimately, did not: The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin is the final installment in...