The Island at the End of the World Book Cover Design Contest
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun | 4 Comments »This is a double whammy for me as I'm a sucker for well-designed book covers and post-apocalyptic fiction. Penguin Books and Creativity have partnered to do a cover design contest for Sam Taylor's forthcoming book, The Island at the End of ...
Observations from Reading the Harry Potter Series
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun | 2 Comments »Early this morning I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and so finished reading the entire seven-book Harry Potter series. I've read them all before, of course, but I wanted to do it one shot. It took about ...
The Top 100 Movies/TV Shows/Music/Books I Don’t Enjoy
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Music, Reading is Fun, Saturday Matinee, Stupid TV, Be More Funny | 5 Comments »Entertainment Weekly released lists of the top 100 movies, TV shows, albums and books of the last 25 years. It's kind of interesting to check out the lists and see how many of the top picks I've seen/listened to/read: Movies: 42/100 TV ...
Prince Caspian: The Book vs. The Movie
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun, Saturday Matinee | 2 Comments »On Saturday night I saw the movie Prince Caspian and yesterday I finished rereading the book. Much like the movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I felt like Prince Caspian the movie was so-so. After Peter ...
Today is Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun | No Comments »Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday, so don't forget that adults are just obsolete children. I wrote about the good doctor's birthday nine years ago, so can just see what I had to say back then.
2007 Reading List
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun | No Comments »Back by popular demand (cue crickets) is my annual reading list. 2007 was shaping up to be a terrible year for reading, but then I went on a sci-fi kick and doubled my reading output in a few months. Then ...
Post-Apocalyptic Stories & Jericho
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in Reading is Fun, Stupid TV, Be More Funny | No Comments »Not too long ago I went on a sci-fi bender and confessed my love for post-apocalyptic fiction. So it was really only a matter of time before I checked out last year's new TV drama Jericho (and thanks to the ...
High School Students Actually Read
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Reading is Fun, Twin Cities | No Comments »This article about a high school book club should brighten any writers day. Apparently more than 100 students are a part of a book club at Edina High School that meets once a month at 7:45 a.m. Not only do they ...
79% of Books Sell Less Than 100 Copies
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Reading is Fun, Writing | 1 Comment »Some depressing stats for writers from Chris Anderson's The Long Tail: In 2004, 950,000 books out of 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen BookScan sold fewer than ninety-nine copies. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 ...
Madeleine L’Engle 1918-2007
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Posted in Reading is Fun | 2 Comments »The author Madeleine L'Engle died last month at the age of 88. I must be living under a rock or reading the wrong blogs or something, because despite my love for her writing I had no idea she died. It's ...
