Bookishgal

Anyone who’s talked books with me for any length of time will already know my favourite female author — my favourite author, period. Dorothy Dunnett is my favourite fiction author of all time.

I want to read this book, in a way, because it makes me afraid. But I feel like I need to know these things, and that somehow we have to force governments and megacorporations from going what they’re doing.

You know the two major Greek mythological epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey? They could take lessons in greatness and epic sweep from The Ramayana and the other, even more massive Hindu epic, The Mahabharata.

Penguin USA is getting into the holiday spirit this week for its book break. This week’s break is the first four chapters of Dickens’ A  Christmas Carol.
Have you seen any of the Christmas Carol movies yet this season? I noticed one the other night, while I was surfing toward something else, but it didn’t appeal [...]

The American Book Review has published a list of what they consider to be the 100 Best Last Lines from Novels. Isn’t that the greatest idea?

Yes everyone, it’s time for “Canada Reads” once again. That is, time for the books and their defenders to be announced, so that we all have time to read them before the big discussion and final vote in the spring.

Another very cool thing happening for Sawyer right now is the taping of an ABC TV series, Flash Forward, based on his novel of the same name. In this story, the consciousness of every human being on earth is jumped into the future for two minutes, before returning to their own time.

I’m really enjoying the interview. It’s quite long, but it’s full of information and fun viewpoints and advice about writing, publishing, promoting one’s book, etc etc. Mr. Harwood is having a fun time with his publishing, teaching, promoting, podcasts…

I just peeked at the Moments in Crime blog where this week’s guest author blogger is Linda Castillo. She’s got quite a romance/suspense backlist – maybe Nicola knows about her and has an opinion? – but what caught my eye at the crime blog was something that appears to be a different type of story [...]

This sounds like it could be much like any story about a gay man in a heavily religious context having to struggle to come to terms with his sexuality. Except that from what Hannaham says in the interview, it sounds like he treats the topic with more…what’s a good word?…gentleness than others.