That's why I'm surprised he's thinking of watching Supernatural. Sure, it's one of the funniest shows I watch, but it's also really freaking dark and depressing alongside that.
Does anyone know what B&N means when they're selling enhanced ebooks? I'm looking at the entry for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and I can't work out what they're actually selling for the extra two dollars. I have a B+W e-ink Nook, so I'm assuming it'll be lost on me on my main device anyway, but would the extra features be available in their Nook applications on more video-appropriate hardware?
I'm so confused. That's such a zero-information writeup, unless I'm missing something.
It fascinates me that Hunger Games is such a huge hit, since it's such a blunt denunciation of so much of American culture. How many millions of kids have read this and are now looking thoughtfully at reality TV? Or interview shows? Or politicians?
I just read the "Mark Reads" thing on Hunger Games, and I also finished the first book myself.
I think I may be the exact opposite of Mark in every way. First, I knew the basic plot before reading, and can't imagine it any other way. Second, I am all about the romance-- poor Peeta! I know next to nothing about the next 2 books, however.
Dickens Walk podcast from the Guardian.
Be sure to download the cool map from the illustrator Baudade too.
I am reading The Serpent Sea, the second of Martha Wells' tales of the Raksura (the first is The Cloud Roads). It's set in a fabulously fantastic world, with floating islands and a multiplicity of sapient races, all of which have widely varying biologies and social structures. And it's about identity and family: both the ones you're born with and the ones you make. It has adventures and mysteries, sex and fighting, beauty and horror.
SGA Fans please note: if you have a fondness for the competent loner who doesn't know he needs a family, and isn't quite sure what to do with it when he gets one; or, by contrast, the researcher and theorist who is forced to become a soldier through no choice of his own; or the woman leading her people through strength, force of personality, and a bit of guile--well, I suspect you might like these novels a great deal.
I'm just saying.
You can find links to the books on her site--and as of last week, there was a promo sale ongoing, with Cloud Roads free and Baen's ebook of The Serpent Sea going for $6.
Found on Tumblr, posted by a YA author:
if you use coupon code F3Y9V4J at BN.com, you’ll get 50% off your entire purchase of teen books! and teen books are awesome, no? :D
(p.s. orders of $25 or more qualify for free shipping, and this coupon is valid until 1/12/12.
Kindle deal of the day:
3 books by Dava Sobel @ excellent prices -
Longitude
for 99 cents,
A More Perfect Heaven for $1.99 and
Galileo's Daughter
for 99 cents.
Link.
So I am 20 pages into
To the Lighthouse
and, man, I don't know if I can make it through this whole book. I'm so fucking lost. I know this book is in English, but words are going right in my head and out the other without comprehension occurring in the middle. I have read Faulkner! WHY CAN'T I DO THIS.
...or the woman leading her people through strength, force of personality, and a bit of guile
I love Martha Wells. And characters with "a bit of guile" are one of her specialties. Or a lot of guile.
WHY CAN'T I DO THIS.
Because the minutiae of life are not very interesting?
t Not a Virginia Woolf fan
