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What Our Book Group Reads
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ what-our-book-group-reads.html

I'm a member of a book group. Nothing unusual in that, I suppose. Our book group formed in early 2004. The group was formed by several parents of children in the same class at Kilbirnie School, plus friends, and though people have come and gone over the years, three of the founding members are still involved.

4 days ago by senjmito in Tim Jones: Books in the Trees · Authority: 17
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection / Gardner Dozois ed.
http://reading.kingrat.biz/ archives/ 997

Of all the Year’s Best S.F. collection’s by Gardner Dozois, this one might be my favorite so far. There weren’t any stories that just blew me away, but there were only a couple I hated and I quite liked quite a bit. Best stories: Bears Discover Fire, Tower of Babylon, and Learning to Be Me.

9 days ago by kingratb in Rat's Reading · Authority: 24
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Jessica Lipnack, Part 1
http://astoriedcareer.com/ 2008/ 09/ qa-with-a-story-guru-jessica-l.html

I could not be more pleased to present the second in my series of Q&A interviews with story practitioners. This interview is with Jessica Lipnack, whom I first encountered early in this decade through her expertise in virtual teams, another one of my interests.

41 days ago in A Storied Career · Authority: 27
Planet of Exile / Ursula K. Le Guin
http://reading.kingrat.biz/ archives/ 954

Planet of Exile is one of Le Guin’s earlier works. In fact, this 1978 edition includes an introduction in which the author spends a few paragraphs defending her lack of feminism in the book, explaining she wrote it before feminism got its hooks in to her.

44 days ago by kingratb in Rat's Reading · Authority: 24
The Olympics: Eye Candy and Its Discontents
http://laurietobyedison.com/ discuss/ ?p=615

Laurie and Debbie say: It’s good to be blogging together again. This month, the Olympics are an inevitable focus for conversations about bodies. We want to make sure you don’t miss Rebecca Solnit’s important take on the topic.

56 days ago by ltedison in Body Impolitic - - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer · Authority: 84
Ursula K. LeGuin—Orsinia (User submission: Tony Skaggs)
http://fantasymaps.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 07/ 30/ ursula-k-leguin%e2%80%94orsinia-…

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76 days ago by fantasycartographer in Fantasy Cartography · Authority: 32
For Kicks: Dealing with Haters
http://chandlermariecraig.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 07/ 09/ for-kicks-dealing-with-ha…

Apparently a lot of children’s writers get this. Rude person: So, when are you going to, yanno, write real literature? Like, yanno, not for children? Writer: (speechless) OR Rude Person: So, when are you going to work your way up to adult literature?

96 days ago in Fumbling with Fiction · Authority: 25
How to Let Go of Your Writing
http://writingtips-writingquotations.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ how-to-let-go-of-yo…

“Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn,” says Ursula Le Guin. “They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn’t know they knew.

110 days ago in Quips & Tips for Freelance Writers · Authority: 16
Three Essential Works of 20th-Century Science Fiction — What Are Their 21st-Century Counterparts?
http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 16/ three-essential-works-o…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. William Gibson’s Neuromancer. All of these 20th-century books made a list of “100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels” published in a recent guide to the genre.

119 days ago by oneminutebookreviews in One-Minute Book Reviews · Authority: 67
Bookspot Round-up 6/4/2008
http://www.fantasybookspot.com/ jaytomio/ 2008/ 06/ bookspot-round-up-642008/

Just a weekly round-up of some stuff at FBS: First we have a piece by Bernd Kochanowski considering the Hammett Award nominees: The Outlander, by Gil Adamson The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon End Games, by Michael Dibdin Dahlia’s Gone, by Katie Estill Stalin’s Ghost, by Martin Cruz Smith Reviews: - Val reviews Night Shade Book’s Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.

131 days ago in The Bodhisattva — Home of the Tomio · Authority: 41