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Where Zombie Meets Literary in Awesomeness

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

My favorite book bloggers dug up this gem: a retelling of Pride And Prejudice with zombies. Called, natch, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Love, love, love the cover and would like to hang it on my wall.

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Give the Kids Indie Cred!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Very, very, very rarely, parenthood and cool coincide. When I say “rare,” I mean, endangered species rare.

But the folks at Paste hit the nail on the head with this one.

I am so buying a copy and playing the playlist for the kiddos.

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Required Reading List

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

So, a friend asked what I was reading lately, and i couldn’t really think of anything that blew me away.

So, what are you reading right now? What have you read lately that blew you away?

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Yanked from a Time Warp Into the Blessed Present

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I have written before about my love for the song This Must Be the Place, by Talking Heads, and about how cool it was that Arcade Fire covered the song live. So, last night, we came in from dinner out, and I had to do the dishes from lunch (Domestic Diva, don’t’cha know?) and so i turned on the radio. I usually listen to 88.5 or 92.9 FM or a CD while in the kitchen, but for some reason, i didn’t like what was on, and I flipped over to WREK. Well, they were playing the Arcade Fire cover of This Must Be the Place, and so i stood there and listened for the whole song.

It is amazing the way a song, particular songs, can completely transport you to a different time in your life, so much so that you can almost taste and smell and feel it, and it looms over you, and you are just transfixed by it. I could not have changed the channel if I had wanted.

Also, I did not want to do the dishes, or finish the dishes and have to go wrangle children into PJs. Much more enjoyable to daydream about being eighteen and in love and with that peculiar sense of possibility that i had when I fell in love with the song the first time.

So, the song ended and I came roughly out of my reverie to the sound of the college girl on the radio, saying the name and band and the name of the radio show. And then she said, “And now i have some tickets to give away. If you’d like to see Broken Social Scene at the Variety, be the first caller through.”

My cel was right there on the counter, I dialed the number and she answered. I won.

Just like that, I was yanked from 1990 to 2008, like a shot. And now I am going to a free show tonight. I love it when stuff like that happens. And I still love that song.

Obviously, based on this with my combined win of the book from Goodreads, I will be buying a lottery ticket this Friday.

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!Outlander Graphic Novel!

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

So anyone who knows me or reads Dogwood Girl knows that I seriously heart Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of books. You know the Twilight series? I was pretty addicted. I am ten times more addicted to Outlander than Twilight, and these are actually smart and well-written!

Well, it seems that Gabaldon is doing an Outlander graphic novel, loosely following events in the first book, Outlander, but from Murtagh’s point of view. Love me some Murtagh! First of all, holy crap. Second of all, this guy is doing the illustrations, and he looks like a great artist. It comes out next year, and so does the next Outlander series book, An Echo In The Bone. Not only that, but Echo won’t be the last. Praise sweet Jesus on a pogo stick!

I just can’t wait to see what his interpretation of Jamie will be. Or Black Jack for that matter. It’s like a train wreck. I want so badly for it to be good, but I’m scared to look, but I can’t not look. You can see some early Claire illustrations here.

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Nerd Dirge

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I am bummed about illustrator, Pauline Baynes passing. You will be, too, if you were like me and you absolutely lost yourself in Narnia and Middle Earth and the warrens of Watership Down. I never even knew her name. Her name. Very proud that those beautiful maps and covers that drew me into the stories were drawn by a female.

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Disaster

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Kind of. . .

My IBook just doesn’t seem to want to turn on. I am posting from Todd’s today. Not sure when I will be back online, but I have an appointment at the Apple store later to check out the problem.

Me: “Can we afford that?”
Todd: “It’s cheaper than therapy for you.”

Good point.

In case you’re wondering, I’d rather chop off my own hand that spend an hour with MacGeeks who call themselves “Genius.” The whole Mac persona really annoys me. So hoity toity.

I am sure this is bad karma and my laptop will never be fixed now, but i am really not in a good mood. On the positive side, while I am there, i am finally going to pick up Breaking Dawn, and i will have plenty of reading time, with no pesky internets to divert me. Oh, yeah, i never went to get the book Friday night.

I wanted to finish the other one I was reading, On Agate Hill. I loved it, and would highly recommend it to others. A great story that reminded me a little bit of Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Alice Walker’s The Color Purple in style, with an imperfect heroine, a bittersweet love story, a smidge of magical realism, a cast of memorable characters, a great display of late 19th century southern culture, and a soaring ending, the kind that makes you feel kind of high as you are reading it.

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Who Knew This Golden Girl Fan Had a Heart of Such Darkness?

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Looking for something good to read? My dear friend Vanessa wrote a really cool short story and it has been published in a modern horror anthology called Read by Dawn, Volume III. Go ahead and click on that link and buy a copy. (I edited the story for Vanessa, so I can tell you, it’s really, really good!) You’ll get a great bunch of stories by authors you haven’t read before, and you’ll be supporting a girl who is following her dream.

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Will You Go to Prom with Me?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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Like, OMG, who wants to go to Prom with me? I know Amanda would go if she was in town. Pierce, would Fowler like to fly in and date me for an evening of Twilight fun?

I have just gotten through the physical torture of not having any Twilight to read, delving into a new, not-at-all-teen-horror-romance-genre-ey (it’s a word, because i just made it a word) novel, On Agate Hill, which, by the way, is really well-written and quite the page-turner at the same time.

But, really, it’s just a case of me biding my time until the new book comes out. Kind of like when you really like that one guy, but he moved, or he isn’t into you, so you date that other, really nice guy in the meantime, but you know that you were never really that into him. Hypothetically. Not that I ever really did that for, like . . . years. The funny part is that if I wasn’t so Twilight-obsessed, I would be really, really jazzed [stef] about this other book.

I so wish I could fit into my old dalmation prom dress. . . that would be perfect. (Okay, haven’t found the dalmation dress, so shiny 10th Grade Homecoming number will have to do for our purposes.)

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Bereft

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I haven’t been this depressed about finishing a book since I read the last page of A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

Now, what am I going to do with myself for the next five days, thirteen hours, seventeen minutes, and eight seconds until I see Bella, Jacob, and the Cullens again? Ugh.

Maybe my family will be glad to have me back for a few days.

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