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What's on the shelf by RM Greenaway

Q: If you were kitting out a holiday cottage (vacation rental) what would you put on the bookshelf for rainy days?
A: My new E-reader.
When I ask people if they read books on e-readers, their reaction is pretty clear: ugh!
I felt the same to a degree. Another modern convenience that seems to speed up and depersonalize life. You can't feel where you are in the book (beginning, middle, end), you can't commune with the author quite so well, and so on... There's also remuneration; does the author g...

I've Got My Books to Keep Me Warm

Q: If you were kitting out a holiday cottage (vacation rental) what would you put on the bookshelf for rainy days?




- from Susan
Having spent some lovely vacation days from Cape Cod to Kauai sitting in houses staring out at the rain, I have either been grateful or frustrated at how various hosts have answered this question. Dog-eared, spat-upon paperback copies of baseball players’ or golfers’ memoirs, outdated Farmers’ Almanacs, paperbacks with covers that show half-naked women with long wavy h...

Bullet The Blue Sky

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Thinking of innovations, from the sundial to the online emoji generator, what would you most like to un-invent?
This is going to sound strange coming from a writer who fills his pages with bullets, but I would un-invent any and all handgun innovations since the six-shot revolver. The issue of gun violence and homicides is near to my heart, after losing several members of my immediate and extended family to the bullet, easily fired from the gun of someone who needed not look into...

Un-inventing the Wheel

Thinking of innovations, from the sundial to the online emoji generator, what would you most like to un-invent?

DISCLAIMER: I love Canada, Canadians, hockey, soccer, babies, puppies and kittens, etc.

This was a tough topic. Oh, I suppose I could be glib and list all the things I hate. Things that many other people enjoy. But I don’t like to rain on other people’s parades. Actually, now that I think of it, I hate parades and wish they’d never been invented. But other than that, why spoil the enj...

Like candy for the writer

by Dietrich Kalteis
Thinking of innovations, from the sundial to the online emoji generator, what would you most like to un-invent?
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to un-invent any of the great inventions that have been real game-changers for mankind: the phone, autos, airplanes, modern medicines, the printing press, and so on. Of course, we’ve also seen an explosion of lesser inventions over the past few decades designed to make our lives better. Thinking back, did we really need Hair in a Can,...

Nothing like a good rant

By R.J. Harlick
Thinking of innovations, from the sundial to the online emoji generator, what would you most like to un-invent?
I know you are all going to squawk, shake your heads and tell me I am out of my mind, but there is one piece of technology I wish had never been invented. The SMART PHONE. That’s right, you heard me correctly. I can’t stand them or more particularly I can’t stand what they are doing to us.
When the cell phone or more correctly the mobile phone first came onto the market...

Get Rid of It!

For Monday, Sept 11, I’m answering the intriguing question: What would you most like to uninvent?
To start off, here are some things I am glad were invented:
Social media. I know, I know. It can be annoying and a time suck, but I also love after a long day of writing to send out a chatty message and have people reply instantly. It’s like having afternoon coffee without the coffee. Even better if I have a glass of wine on hand.
Airplanes. Actually, I wish they had skipped airplanes and gone...

Doing the Curly Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

Do you have a literary executor named in your will? What would you like (or loathe!) to have happen to your work when you've shuffled off this mortal coil?

by Paul D. Marks

Hmm, I’m not sure what there is to execucute (is that a word?). A bunch of stories, some books, hopefully more of both to come. Right now, I don’t have a literary executor for a bunch of reasons. First and foremost is we, I anyway, plan to live forever. Second, it’s really just not something I’ve thought about and I figure A...

When the party's over ...

"Do you have a literary executor named in your will? What would you like to see happen to your books once you've shuffled off this mortal coil?" By Catriona

A word about that mortal coil, though. Shakespeare meant one day we will all shrug out of the earthly bodies that coil themselves around us while we're alive. Everyone knows that, right? But when I was a wee girl (and still now, a bit) I had a picture of human beings walking up (pessimists would have said down, I suppose) a coil, suspended...