Apparently, I am not the only reader who thinks Jane Austen’s novels could use a little more excitement. Last month, I reviewed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I loved. Then, via USA Today, I got the news that Quirk Productions is negotiating a movie deal for the surprise best seller! And there are more monster novels on the way.… Read more
Greetings from the West Coast! Only a few more days in beautiful Montebello, California, then home for 3 days and off to a week of meetings in St. Paul, Minnesota. Luckily, I have managed to squeeze in a little time for some new words. Words this week come from Population: 485 by Michael Perry. It’s a really interesting book about… Read more
First of all, an apology. I wrote this review ages ago and it has been stuck in Draft mode. I’m really annoyed about that because it’s a book I’ve been telling friends to go out and buy right away! Luckily, it’s not too late… Web Goodhue is a jerk. He’s down to his last friend, he’s got no job, he… Read more
Welcome to another edition of Teaser Tuesdays! I am posting and scheduling this ahead of time – I am still on the West Coast and trying to keep a whole lot of balls in the air – so that at least I will have something on my blog. With luck, I can get over to Should Be Reading and post… Read more
Good morning and Happy Wednesday! I am on the west coast this week on business, so I am getting a rather late start on this today, at least compared to a lot of you. It’s been hard to squeeze in some personal time, but since I missed the Teaser yesterday, I didn’t want to miss sharing some new words! This… Read more
I live in a college town and we have our fair share of tattoo parlors. There are 2 shops almost next door to each other on the main drag through town and a tattoo and body piercing place down at the end of a row of bars, near where I turn onto my street. That one has an interesting crew… Read more
I have missed out on Wondrous Words the last few weeks – I hate it when Real Life disrupts my online pursuits. Luckily, I just finished with The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, which provided a ton of new words. So, prepare to learn a little about mortuary science as well as precise definitions of some more old-fashioned English words…… Read more
Good morning, folks! It’s time for another Tuesday Teaser! (I always feel a bit like an old-time radio announcer doing this intro.) You know how this works: take your current book and select a couple of interesting sentences – something that will tease us into wanting to read it. This week’s Teaser comes from a book I just finished a… Read more
Sometimes, a book or movie is so bad that is is unintentionally funny. Well, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest celebrates writing that is so intentionally bad that it is actually good – and very funny. From their website: An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The… Read more
If you work in an office, you have probably watched the bigwig’s desks to see which management self-help books are in vogue. Whether it’s The One Minute Manager or Who Moved My Cheese or First, Break All the Rules, managers like to look like they are up to date on the latest management theories. Rubies in the Orchard is a… Read more