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Fearless Tedra De Arr and Her Free-Thinking Computer...Get Laid?

So I've been on a mission to read more "pure" science and speculative fiction, as my usual tastes run more towards sci-fi/fantasy mixes or outright urban fantasies (such as Neil Gaiman's American Gods and The Sandman and…
Sexy Vampire Books: Wine, Roses, and Women of the Night

Let's kick off this Halloween season, shall we? Alas, no Halloween Movie Fest for me this year, as I don't happen to be living with T & SA anymore. But I've modified the October ritual to my personal liking, having d…
You wanna do *what* to Moby Dick?

Um, file this one under "But, why?!?!" Timur "Wanted" Bekmambetov will direct a film version of Moby Dick. I can't really describe it any better than originial article, so here's a little taste [emphasis mine]: The wr…
Poetry Dump, cont.

Another Emily Dickinson dump: ------------------------- #1383 Long years apart - can make no Breach a second cannot fill - The absence of the Witch does not Invalidate the spell - The embers of a Thousand Years Uncover…
He totally IS the Big Cheese

The C. K. Williams reading was amazing. I'm a little bit in love with him, though that's obviously a pipe dream as he's both married and 71 years young. My faith in late 20th / early 21st century poetry was completely re…
Arrrggghhhh. Still no book review; sorry, all, but I'm just too busy today to crank out another. I promise a double one for tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to see this man read tonight: C.K. Williams According …
NaBloPoMo is looming...

Only three days left! The winning theme from the poll ended up being "Fiction and/or Non-Fiction Book Reviews." Of course, only one person voted and while this would normally be grounds for ignoring the poll all toge…
Your Psychotic Butterfly Will Never Let You Down

I've been trying to wade my way through a very well-written but strange and somewhat disturbing book for the past month and a half: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. I'm a very fast reader and I'm often reading two or thre…
R.I.P.: Madeline L'Engle

I've been a reader for more than twenty years now. I read avidly all through elementary, junior high, and high school and then went to college and majored in English Literature. My circle of literature continually expand…
Look at the pretty pictures

I originally had trouble getting into the graphic novel, primarily because of the medium; I come from a scholarly background in literature, where we’re trained to look at how a story is crafted with words (and onl…