L.S. Engler

Projects

  • The 100 Books Project: Tune in Toyko.

    “Oh, and Brad Pitt would not play me in the movie adaptation. Sandra Bernhard will.” “Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries” by Tim Anderson The ghost of David Sedaris haunts the pages of Tim Anderson’s Tune In Tokyo. Okay, no, David Sedaris is (thankfully) not dead, but his own memoirs and experience in culture shock,…

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  • Oh, Here It Goes Again.

    So, I’ve taken a little bit of a break from writing and from the blog to have some well-spent time with a friend, which I have a feeling I’ll be doing a lot of on the weekends if this new schedule that gives me Sundays off stays consistent. From what I hear, this is typical…

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  • The 100 Books Project: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue.

    “I would hope, however, that we might think of these things as what they are: arbitrary fashions of formal language that we must attend to just as we dress according to the random dictates of the fashions of our moment. Remember that what is considered ‘proper’ English varies with the times just as fashion does.”…

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  • The 100 Books Project: Alice in Deadland.

    “Better dead than undead.” “Alice in Deadland” by Mainak Dhar Anyone who knows me well will know that, among my extensive list of Loves, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and zombies are pretty high on the list. I’m sure this is true for a pretty healthy amount of people, too, so I’m sure they’d be just…

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  • The “Look” Challenge.

    Over at Frame Tale, Kate did a challenge post that she had come across that I just had to give a stab at myself. I love these little games, where you get the chance to showcase a little bit of your work. It’s also pretty useful for those days when you don’t have much else…

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  • An Autumnal Antholgy Contest.

    After giving it some thought, I’ve decided that I’m going to go ahead and do it. I’m going to hold a writing contest. This thought seems new and strange to me, though, really, it shouldn’t, since I produced an anthology for my writing group in college, though that wasn’t so much of a contest as…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: More Like a Catch-Up.

    “‘I smell Ssark on the wind,” Tayahyla said, her face made of stone. ‘That reek is unmistakeable, a hunting party, though a small one. Still, we’d better move quickly before they start taking to the idea of Human flesh to break their fast.’” As you may have realized, not only did I skipp Sunday’s Round…

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  • The 100 Books Project: Mercenaries.

    “From huge, publicly owned firms to small independent companies, the corporate world has learned that war is indeed good business, and business is good and getting better.” “Mercenaries: Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today’s Private Military Companies” by Michael Lee Lanning Mercenaries is a very straight-forward book, of the non-fiction variety, going through…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: What Happened to the Weekend?

    ”     ‘We’re paying you to care about rescuing the girl,’ Estialog stated simply. ‘What happens afterwards is categorically none of your business.’      ‘And if we have a moral concern?’      Tayahyla snorted again, but held back comment. ‘An odd bunch of brigands,’ Estialog murmured, ‘to be concerned with morality.’      ‘We never claimed to…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: The Waiting Game.

    “Locke grunted, trying to hold down his irritation. ‘Men lie, Majani,’ he said, ‘and quite often, and that’s why I ask. You didn’t honestly believe us to just blindly follow anyone with enough gold into caves and secret dungeons, do you?’” I wasn’t sure if I was going to pull off a check-in post today,…

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