Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
malleable \MAL-ee-uh-buhl\, adjective: Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; easily influenced. Capable of adjusting to changing circumstances; adaptable. Malleable comes from Medieval Latin malleabilis, from malleare, "to hammer," from Latin malleus, "hammer."...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Book bloggers are my favorite source of book recommendations. More than any other source, they consistently introduce me to books and authors that impact my life. Therefore, I have created the Book Blogger Recommendation Challenge. The Top 25 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling City of Bones - Cassandra Clare Twilight - Stephenie Meyer The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Celebrating cinematic birthdays for 11/29 . Which celebrity would you most like to spank today? Blon d³ : Diane, Anna and Cathy 1832 Louisa May Alcott wrote the oft-adapted Little Women 1895 Busby Berkeley , legendary choreographer/director. What would the early musicals have been without him? 1898 C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which were made into unfortunately generic movies. He...
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Favorite adult novel by Madeleine L’Engle: The Love Letters Second favorite adult novel: The Severed Wasp Third favorite adult novel: Certain Women. Semicolon review here. Favorite Young Adult novel: The Small Rain. Semicolon review here. Favorite of the Time Quartet books: A Swiftly Tilting Planet Favorite male characters: Charles Wallace or Felix Bodeway, the Window Washer Favorite female characters:...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
More than 700 Colorado Territory militiamen attacked a village of Arapaho and Cheyenne, killing 133 people, including 105 women and children in 1864. The incident is known as the Sand Creek Massacre. The Meiji Constitution, establishing a constitutional monarchy in Japan, went into effect in 1890. King Tutankhamen's tomb was opened to the public in 1922. And in 1972, Atari unleashed Pong on an unsuspecting...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
234 Unique Books Recommended 33 Different Book Bloggers Contributed 1 List of All-Time Favorites Compiled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling City of Bones - Cassandra Clare Twilight - Stephenie Meyer The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Graceling - Kristin Cashore Outlander - Diana Gabaldon Lord of the Rings...
The Written World (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Twitter really is a wonderful place. You can credit it with the birth of a lot of things! Last night it inspired me to write this post, and since I could use some inspiration, I am going to take full advantage of it. One of my favourite authors when I was a young adult was Madeleine L'Engle. Over the years I have read most of her books and I encourage everyone to read her! I was on the library website...
Buried in the Slush Pile (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Like I said yesterday, a one page summary divulges the entire plot of your novel. Another word for it would be a plot summary. So, to help people understand what I mean by plot summaries, I went and found a few good ones on the web. The first one is the plot summary for Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet . You can find it on wikipedia here . Just look at the part of the page labeled "Plot...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Michael Hemphill : "I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, but didn't know much about the Civil War until my wife and I moved to Virginia in 1997. "Here in Virginia, I worked as a newspaper reporter (where I met Sam) until 2000 when the first of our three daughters was born. Since, I've been a stay-at-home dad, directed a nonprofit, worked in public relations at a local university, co-owned a...
spookycyn (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient...
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tues 11.03.09 - Regardless of whether you are participating in National ________ Posting/Writing Month or just reading/watching others, I think the best part of the November novel writing, blog posting, vlog posting, drawing, and any other permutation, is that daily practice really does hone one's creative skills and ingrains, in a good way, the habit of the activity. One of my favorite authors of...
The Kiddosphere @ Fauquier (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Children's Magazines Month will have to be unofficially extended to the first week of November. I was at the Virginia Library Association conference in Williamsburg Thursday-Friday. I loved listening to Tonya Bolden, winner of the Jefferson Cup, speak at the Jefferson Cup luncheon. BUT....the best part about the luncheon was that I was seated at the same table as Leonard Marcus ! Leonard Marcus was...
Kim Stagliano (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Writing, Ranting, Reading Writing My book is coming along pretty well. I got feedback from my editor that didn't start with, "We've burned your contract. What were we thinking?" which was a relief. Ranting I'm pretty annoyed with the soda/beverage industry. Have you seen the ridiculous ad against the Soda Tax - the angry Melina Kanakaredes looking model is with her child in the grocery store...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Learn more about Lucienne Diver . What were you like as a teenager? What were your favorite books and why? I was/am a geek. A D&D playing, chorus-singing, braniac thespian. You know, the kind who took extra art and English classes because study hall and lunch were just wastes of time. I did junior high, high school and community theatre because, you know, all that homework wasn't enough to keep...
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