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When Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published, I bought it on my Kindle and found it pretty amusing. It seemed a spontaneous uniting of two elements I like — Jane Austen and zombie survival stories — more of an homage than a high-concept gimmick. Then the publisher, Quirk Books, announced Sense and Sensibility and [...] I’m fascinated by the old “countries separated by a common language” aspect of British and American culture, the way we regard each other’s accents and usage. I admit I am fairly appalled every time I see or hear the British usage “different to.” That preposition doesn’t make any sense! One activity I find fun (and [...] Recently, I went to a reading given by San Jose State University’s Center for Literary Arts of Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers by Daniel Arnold. Dan graduated the same semester I did from the university’s creative writing program, so I was really excited to see the success of my [...] I am reading When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe, a novel set in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II. I was interested in it when it came out, but I heard an interview with Holthe in which she describe One Hundred Years of Solitude as “boring” and it soured me on her. [...] Francine Prose has written a new book about Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, claiming her as a literary genius and exploring how she actively was revising her journal to prepare it for publication after the war. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Prose says something that made me [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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