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WWW Wednesday 12/18

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you recently finish reading?

• What do you think you’ll read next?

• What are you currently reading?

Thanks to a link passed around FaceBook a few weeks ago I discovered “Finding Arthur” by Adam Ardrey. I have been an avid reader of Arthuriana since I devoured “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White when I was in middle school a Looooooong tim...

Trauma du jour: new purse

Key caribiner, phone pocket (modified), double strap pretending to be single.

Are you fussy about your purse? Does it have to be exactly so big? Have at least five pockets? No pockets? One strap or two? Plain black or color? Bling or no bling? Leather or microfiber? And the phone pocket?

It’s that time again. My resale shop Liz Claiborne pocketbook-sized purse has died. I can now:

go to all the stores and look for a new purse meeting my exacting requirements
try the resale shops again
look in my c...

My Friend Connie: Memoir, Cancer, And Tent Camping

When a friend or family member is diagnosed with cancer, the effects ripple through the community. If we and our friend are relatively young, we may feel shock but also a sense of insulation. We have not yet begun to consider our own mortality, or the likelihood of losing our peers to accident or one disease or another. It hasn’t happened to us yet and the odds are still in our favor, particularly if we don’t smoke or drive drunk, we exercise and eat many leafy green vegetables. As the years...

BVC Announces Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs

Razzmatazz

by Patricia Burroughs

When small town girl Kennie Sue Ledbetter wakes up in a Reno hotel between two guys in rumpled tuxedos, she thinks things can’t get any worse.

When she steps on the wedding bouquet and sees the ring on her finger, she knows things can’t get any worse.

But then she finds out she’s married to the guy who won her in a coin-toss in front of the wedding chapel, and ‘worse’ has a name and a face:

Alexander Carruthers, the gorgeous silver-tongued devil who believes in lov...

Author Interview: Lois Gresh

Lois H. Gresh

Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

Writer Lois H. Gresh is one of the rare people working today who has not only been lauded by critics and peers (nominations for the Bram Stoker, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and International Horror Guild Awards) but has reached the New York Times Bestseller List multiple times. Lois is known for SF, The Weird, Horror, YA and also her Companion books for other popular worlds. Four stories from her collection ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (available fro...

Aqueduct Authors on Their Favorite Books, Movies, etc., of 2013

It’s December and everyone is publishing lists of the best books, movies, music, etc., of the year. People associated with Aqueduct Press are no exception. Each year the Aqueduct blog, Ambling Along the Aqueduct, invites a number of folks to contribute to a series on “The Best of Reading, Viewing, and Listening.”

The difference between these posts and other “best of” lists is that people are not restricted to writing about new releases, making it a good place to learn about older work you migh...

Frozen: A Very Short Review

By Brenda W. Clough

I believe I can remember seeing my first Walt Disney animated movie. It was Sleeping Beauty. I see from IMDB that this came out in 1959, so that would be just about right. If anyone wants a research project to apply to a Ph.D. a century from now, it probably would be profitable to write about how animation and comics have affected me. That movie is seminal in my development. And by extension all Disney movies are, as well.

So it was annoying when the great studio fell onto h...

Is Something Burning? Part 1 – A Whistle is Not An Alarm

A Survival Guide for the Hyper Focused

Once I read through a house catching on fire.

Seriously.

After it was all over, and I made a comment that indicated that I’d totally missed the guys setting the sawdust pile in the attached garage on fire, my hostess calmly said she was glad to know about this superpower of mine. Now she knew that should the place ever catch on fire again, she needed to slap me on the shoulder as she ran by with the kids.

I suspect I am not the only reader capable of phenome...

In Celebration of The Hobbit 2

By Brenda Clough

Oh happy day, the second Hobbit movie is out! Perhaps you, like I, cannot get to the theater this weekend. So to tide you over, here is another LOTR song parody for the occasion, dug out from my files:

(The setting is a clambake, on the beach at sad Lake Nurnen. It is the year 1600 of the Second Age, when as you recall everything’s coming up roses for the Dark Lord.)

SAURON: Rings are bustin’ out all over!

The Noldor made the Nine and Sev’n and Three!

Then I slipped off to Mordor

A...

Waking Up in Baltimore

I keep waking up in Baltimore. Not literally, of course. It’s just post-REM sleep confusion: those first moments of daze before you are fully awake in the morning when the heat in your room is turned up too high. You dream/imagine many wonderful scenarios for yourself. For several moments you really do believe you are a Turkish queen, Cuban revolutionary, or newly wed in Monaco. Lately I’ve been waking up as a peasant in Baltimore.

It’s because of the confluence of two great events in my life:...