Today at the office we are celebrating Towel Day with a lunchtime reading of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And brownies. Douglas Adams was the first author who made me think that maybe after all I could become a writer. I’d been plagued with self-doubt for most of my life, which kept me from [...]
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Hear, hear.
Bravo, Topless Robot: “Topless Robot is of the opinion that this book is a cash grab by the late Douglas Adams’ wife, that Douglas Adams was so individual a writer that no one could or should try to replicate him, and that And Another Thing should be avoided at all costs. If there was a [...]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Disclaimer: I was predisposed to like this one from the beginning, so it’s fair enough to call me a partial and prejudiced reviewer. Jane Austen is often called the first feminist fiction writer, and a new take on her most popular Regency romance — coauthored by Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Kenneth Grahame — puts the [...]
Book Club: The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood ISBN 0-7710-0813-9 Summary A dystopian tale describing the life of a woman living in the mid-1980′s in Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian society that rose from the destruction of the United States after a coup. The tale is told out of order with a present tense first narrative voice, and is [...]
To-Read List
. . . If I ever get a moment Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren’t Any Words for Yet–But There Ought to Be by Douglas Adams How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday [...]
