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Unforgettabooks: The Game of Thrones (any of them)/The Hidden City
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Musings on books for children, teens, and young adults (mostly) that missed out on an internet bump. Wednesday, 19 March 2014. The Game of Thrones (any of them)/The Hidden City. I haven't read as much fantasy lately as I used to. But I've kept up enough to be baffled by this: Why are people are in such transports over George R.R. Martin,. Is giving us books like The Hidden City? Now, I like. Is going more than a few leagues too far. She was signing copies of her own books, so I asked her to recommend one...
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SFF Guests: Long and Short Reviews: April 2012
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Beginning January 1, 2013. All interviews may be found here. Stop by the new site and take a look around. Friday, April 27, 2012. INTERVIEW: LEIGH M. LANE. Long and Short Reviews welcomes Leigh M. Lane. Who is giving away Finding Poe. Free for the Amazon Kindle today through April 29. In addition, one commenter on today's interview will win an paperback version. Finding Poe. She was an avid reader as a child, with her favorite authors at the time being Roald Dahl and Carolyn Keene. No; I don’t even...
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your FACE is my blog: March 2012
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Your FACE is my blog. This blog is not the droids you're looking for. The mostly true, extremely subjective stories of our lives as told from my perspective. And some other junk that I occasionally cook up. Monday, March 26, 2012. My OWN Version of the Hunger Games. But it got REALLY really hard and I found myself rolling my eyes at some of the characters' responses particularly near the end of the book. Anyway, this isn't a book review post. The movie came out, and it looks intriguing. My wife ordered a...
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Suspended Sentences: Velcro Doesn't Go
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Musings on the use and abuse of language. Tuesday, 12 November 2013. VELCRO DOESN’T GO THIS WELL TOGETHER.". I mean, I know what you mean, okay? I just don’t like it. At all. The good news: It's a sentence. So it deserves that period. Which is rare enough in advertising that we can spend a microsecond celebrating. But I don’t even know where to begin to make it stop hurting. Simply switching the words around (sometimes the easiest fix) doesn’t help:. VELCRO DOESN’T GO TOGETHER THIS WELL. VERBUM SAT SAPIE...
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Suspended Sentences: March 2012
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Musings on the use and abuse of language. Thursday, 8 March 2012. Who you gonna call? Discussions about grammar and language are often characterized as face-offs between prescriptivists. Underwear-ironing purists who can’t die out quickly enough) and descriptionists. Lusty progressives who choose to break the rules to connect with the masses). These particular images come from a guest post. At the Essay Expert by Steven Sawyer. You can guess to which camp he swears allegiance.*. It makes it right. It may...
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Unforgettabooks: March 2014
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Musings on books for children, teens, and young adults (mostly) that missed out on an internet bump. Wednesday, 19 March 2014. The Game of Thrones (any of them)/The Hidden City. I haven't read as much fantasy lately as I used to. But I've kept up enough to be baffled by this: Why are people are in such transports over George R.R. Martin,. Is giving us books like The Hidden City? Now, I like. Is going more than a few leagues too far. She was signing copies of her own books, so I asked her to recommend one...
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Unforgettabooks: The Hunger Games/Rite of Passage
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Musings on books for children, teens, and young adults (mostly) that missed out on an internet bump. Tuesday, 6 March 2012. The Hunger Games/Rite of Passage. So a few months ago, I had a conversation with a young friend whose imagination had been entirely captivated by The Hunger Games. When she described the premise, it immediately brought to mind Alexei Panshin. 8217;s Rite of Passage. I also thought of Monica Hughes’s Invitation to the Game. Which I will come back to in a future post.). For many years...
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Unforgettabooks: March 2012
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Musings on books for children, teens, and young adults (mostly) that missed out on an internet bump. Tuesday, 6 March 2012. The Hunger Games/Rite of Passage. So a few months ago, I had a conversation with a young friend whose imagination had been entirely captivated by The Hunger Games. When she described the premise, it immediately brought to mind Alexei Panshin. 8217;s Rite of Passage. I also thought of Monica Hughes’s Invitation to the Game. Which I will come back to in a future post.). For many years...
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Unforgettabooks
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Musings on books for children, teens, and young adults (mostly) that missed out on an internet bump. Tuesday, 6 March 2012. I’m enjoying Suzanne Collins’s. A lot Furthermore, I was correct in anticipating what it would remind me of—that is to say, which books of my acquaintance from years past. 8217;s Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,. And Alice in Wonderland. Won’t be quickly forgotten. Nor (I sincerely hope) will Goodnight Moon. Or Where the Wild Things Are.*. Who will speak for them? And Where t...
