Archive for the 'books' Category

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13 October 2007

Neil Gaiman writes about Stardust and fairy tales in The Guardian.
Women in Hollywood speak up about Women in Hollywood.
Steal This Book! No, really, steal it.
Become addicted to Doctor Who. Like moi.
Exclusive! Leaked excerpts from a screenplay written by my grandparents in an attempt to cash in on the superhero-movie craze.
And for more quizzes…

You’re Brave New [...]

Forget Romance, Give Me Art!

31 August 2007

High art this is most definitely not, but it’s funny:

Visit longmiredoesromancenovels for more parodies of romance novel covers.
It’s no secret, romance novels are my guiltiest pleasure and the reason why I feel guilty sometimes when I read romance novels is because of the smutty covers. It’s the reason why romance novels are labeled “girl porn.” Hey, most of the [...]

Tomorrow, Tomorrow…

16 April 2007

tomorrow is the US release of JRR Tolkien’s new book (posthumous publication, of course, and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien) called The Children of Hurin.
don’t know what it’s about yet but they say it’s like Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales or a darker Lord of the Rings 
 and the illustrations look really, really amazing (they’re by [...]