Blogfestivus is a creative writing challenge issued by that crafty elf Blogdramedy. Twelve days of 144-word stories based on the popular “Twelve Days of Christmas” song. Day Five is “five golden rings”. Special props for decoding the story name. LOTB Bob Monfordo was desperate. He wanted to find a unique gift for his Lady, which had led…
Well, here we are, the final question in the 30 Days of Books list. It is, of course: Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time However can you choose such a thing? Certainly along the course of this exercise I’ve hit upon a few that would be very strong contenders: The Illearth War by Stephen…
You remember back when you were a teenager and the discovery of books and music was SO COOL and when you found a band or an author that you liked, you’d just devour anything from them and proclaim it, “THE GREATEST EVER!” For me, discovering Tolkien was like that. As a nerd-ish teen, immersing myself…
Certainly this week, there’s been a lot of increasing chatter about the upcoming finale of the tv show LOST (it’s penultimate episode is this evening in the US). Now, I’ve liked this show from the get-go and am excited, anxious and incredibly curious to see how the show runners have decided to end it –…
Booking Through Thursday: Illustrious March 11, 2010 Filed under: WordPress — –Deb @ 1:07 am How do you feel about illustrations in your books? Graphs? Photos? Sketches? This is a pretty easy question for anyone that grew up reading a lot of fantasy literature. There’s almost one thing that every fantasy epic needs – and that’s a map. Maybe…
I saw a recent blog post about how the American Chemical Society was going to phase out hard copies of the journals that they produce – going strictly online in the future. Now, this has probably been coming for a while – I’d say >95% of the journal articles I read in the last five…
A good meme for BTT today: What was the last book you bought? “The Eight” by Katherine Neville and “Lisey’s Story” by Stephen King Name a book you have read MORE than once Hrrmm… there’s been several, but one book I’ve read more than twice is “The Illearth War” by Stephen R. Donaldson. Maybe the…
So tonight is the last night of my piano class and our final. It’s been sort of a strange semester – and I can’t believe it’s gone by this quickly. Much like last year, the class was whittled down from Standing-Room-Only (25+) to about 6 people. Last semester, I think it was because our teacher…
Not too long ago, I was stressing about a snippet in my Piano Course requirement that said that part of the course was going to require some composition, which I thought was just sort of crazy talk. Circle_of_5ths I’m not sure that this course has taught me how to mechanically play the piano much better…
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