Due to Stephen’s LOLprowess, our site now has enough Diggs or Technorati gold stars in heaven to rate us being approached by marketing firms. The first couple of times we got emails, I was like, “Huh? They want to do what? What’s the catch?” The catch is that these companies want to send us free [...]
Category Archives: Books are for Reading
Libertarian Children’s Books
February 20, 2008 – 8:29 am
During yesterday’s discussion of my dislike of The Giving Tree, we got to discussing The Rainbow Fish. siliconchef pointed out Starboortz Fish, a libertarian re-telling of The Rainbow Fish in which a starfish has to earn the respect of others.
That got me to thinking. There aren’t really any libertarian children’s books I know of, at [...]
The Co-Dependent Tree
February 19, 2008 – 10:52 am
I read a lot of kids’ books when I was young, but I don’t remember most of them because I was a kid and had the memory of a goldfish on a three-day bender. Now that I’m an adult and reading even more kids’ books, I’ve discovered that there are good ones and bad ones. [...]
Steven Brust’s Firefly Fanfic Novel
February 5, 2008 – 1:09 pm
Steven Brust wrote a Firefly fanfic novel and has released it for free under a Creative Commons license. And, wow, is that a sentence I’d never thought I’d type.
Cassie Edwards, Wide-Ranging Plagiarist
January 16, 2008 – 3:55 pm
I swear, I wasn’t going to say a thing about romance novelist Cassie Edwards and her sticky-fingered plagiarism problem, but the latest round of revelations regarding her sources is too crazy not to share.
Back at the beginning of the month, one of the writers at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, a weblog reviewing romance [...]
A Couple of Comic Book Links
November 29, 2007 – 3:31 pm
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I read a fair number of comics thanks to my brother. He’s introduced me to a lot of great comics, like James Robinson’s fabulous Starman and (more recently) Bill Willingham’s Fables.
Not all of the comics I’ve read are good, sadly, though I won’t blame those on Andrew. In [...]
I’m All Cyberpunked Up
October 11, 2007 – 2:17 pm
I’ve had a copy of Neuromancer for a very long time. I’ve enjoyed the idea of having the book for so long that I think I thought I just might get to know the book by osmosis. I figured having the book made me seem cool. (LanaBob! how many cool points do you get for [...]
106 Books: The Stephen Edition
October 2, 2007 – 7:05 pm
Misty made me do it! Books in bold I’ve read; books in italics I only read part of.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and [...]
106 Books
October 2, 2007 – 4:08 pm
I thought this was cool, so I stole it from Limax.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. I’ve bolded what I’ve read and italicized what I started but couldn’t finish (some italicized I read excerpts of in school). I put an asterisk by the ones we have in [...]