Xander ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Oh, and Pam Rosenthal's books written as Molly Weatherfield are also good, and less romancey.
I was going to recommend those, but they're pretty hard-core, and not at all romance-y. *I* love them because they're so damn word-nerdy and cerebral in addition to all the ponies (ponies yay!) and freaky shit, but I think anyone picking those up and expecting Fifty Shades of Fanfic is in for a big shock.
maybe John Norman novels would suffice?
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Yeah, not even having read twilight, but having the misfortune of reading about a quarter of a Norman before throwing it against a wall, I doubt that Twilight or Twilight fan fiction is worse than Gor.
I think anyone picking those up and expecting Fifty Shades of Fanfic is in for a big shock.
Probably true, but I realized the others might not address the BDSM part, just the erotica part.
Amazon has a list of the most popular highlighted passages in Kindle books: [link]
Which is cool, but also kind of weird to me.
Not sure this qualifies as literary, but I spotted this on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Three Way by the Sea. Were-dolphins. Gay were-dolphins.
Amy, be glad you didn't have to write the "cover copy" for this; you've been spared something.
Just knowing it exists is traumatic enough.
I'm re-reading Mark Reads LotR, and I can't remember if he did the live blog of Return of the King, and I can't figure out where to look.
It was on Mark Watches. Spoiler warning: it destroyed him.
Thanks, Polter!
Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:
she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.
It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.