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This image of Vespasian isn’t anywhere else and probably won’t be. Yes, I bought an image that would ordinarily be used for a book cover to use for my own inspiration. Seriously. How could I not? What drew me to this image is one word. TORTURED. That is how I view Vespasian, and what I sensed in this image. I would have snatched it up just as quickly if he’d been fully clothed. Yes, really. Now, you might think I only got the image because of the washboard, but if so, why did I cover part of it with those other...
read moreI love photographing windows, usually the view from within. And when it comes to windows, there is nothing I love more than leaded glass. When we were in England in March 2013, I shot several views from Erinyes Manor Baddesley Clinton. It’s difficult to explain what it’s like visiting a place after you’ve already absorbed it into the fantasy world you’re building, absorbed it because of its floorplan, its history–chosen for very practical reasons, when there was a prettier manor actually located in Cornwall that ought to have fit the bill....
read moreHold it. We interrupt this program, I mean blog, to announce: I didn’t know when I started writing this post, but– A Court of Thorns and Roses, the first book in the series I’m about go on and on about? Is only $1.99 everywhere. Could this post be any more timely? I think not! Quick, buy it. We’ll wait. Okay! Back to your regularly scheduled programming, I mean blog. I just finished listening to and reading* A Court of Wings and Ruin, the third book in the in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. It’s a...
read moreBecause a writer writes. Because publication does not define who is and isn’t a writer. Because I am a proud member of supporter of @ao3org and because the #hugos2019 rock! An Internet Fan Fiction Archive Is Nominated for a Hugo Archive of Our Own is a finalist in the prestigious Hugo award’s Best Related Works category—which means thousands of fanfics are Hugo finalists. This week, the Hugo awards—a set of literary awards given to the best science fiction and fantasy works of the year—announced that Archive of Our...
read moreAnd no, that’s not a trick question. Nor is it a failure of my dys-brain, which as disordered as it is, can actually understand that particular mathematical concept. Just don’t ask me what 7×8=. But, billions and half-billions? I understand the concept and am yet very confused about it. I’m certain there must be a big difference in the lifestyles of those who are worth one amount rather than the other, because if there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be so many billionaires who build their wealth on the backs of...
read moreI love the idea that readers fall in love with books and characters and turn around and want to create their own stories, art, etc. Fan art can be images representing the author’s creation or images the represent the artist’s ideas of what might have happened, or might happen. Today, this fan art on tumblr grabbed my eye and absolutely wouldn’t let go. I haven’t read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire but this made me wonder what I’ve been missing! Since it’s a compilation of quotes from the book,...
read moreThis is frustratingly weird. I worked on this post yesterday and it’s gone. While I guess I must have quite the program without saving, I could swear that WordPress also does autosaves? No? And I can’t recreate everything. But here’s what I can tell you quickly. Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Written by Patricia Hruby Powell Illustrated by Christian Robinson (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) I wanted to read a biography of Josephine Baker. I’m on a waiting list for Josephine...
read moreBlack Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime Wow. What a wild ride. And I don’t mean roller coaster hang-onto-your-seats-bang-bang ride. I mean an “if this were a novel nobody would believe it” ride, which is such a cliché it’s gotten trite and boring, but I kinda didn’t want to say an “are you shittin’ me???” ride. Ooops. As often happens I’m recommending that you just go grab this and start reading or listening without knowing any of the spoilers that...
read moreWhat to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I began reading this book and realized it was about a gifted, apparently-on-the-spectrum guy and a gifted girl without neuro-issues, I felt a bit of ‘oh, another one? are guys with Asperger’s sadly becoming the new trope that girls sigh over?’ and felt a bit disgusted and a bit bored and almost stopped listening. But it’s not. It’s not ‘just another one of those books.’ By the end I had revised every negatively cautious thought I’d...
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