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“Mother Night” by Kurt Vonnegut My exposure to Vonnegut is severely lacking. I have only read three of this many works, and “Mother Night” was one of them. In fact, “Mother Night” was supposed to be the big one, as the thing that finally got me to pick up Vonnegut as I had been wanting…
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As I’ve been trying to get through a few more books to round up my reading for the month, I’m noticing quite prominently what I’ve noticed a little bit in the past, and that is that I have a really bad habit of writing what I read. Sometimes, this extends to themes, but it’s mostly…
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“100 Malicious Little Mysteries” selected by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander This collection….is not a good collection. There were maybe a handful of stories of the 100 that I would have considered genuinely good. The others were all too quaint, tried, and predictable, and (possibly due to the fact that there…
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I’ve just found something out that makes much of what I said in my post about Stars Wars incorrect. Apparently (and I feel foolish for thinking otherwise, really), the book wasn’t written by George Lucas at all, but was instead ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster. So my musings about Lucas being so fueled and excited…
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It’s always a little discouraging when my goal to write a post a day goes to pieces so soon, but I’m not entirely surprised. But now I’m intending to be back, and, hopefully, I can keep from being lazy off at least for another week. The unexpected hiatus was a little ironic, though, considering the…
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…novel writes you! But seriously, it may not be the most structured or effective way of writing a book, but completely making it up as you go along is definitely fun! I love being swept away by details that seem to just manifest out of no where, how one single word or sentence fragment can…
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Another book was finished this morning! I buckled down and swept through the last few pages to get to the final pages of the following: “Greek Tragedies: Volume 3” edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore featuring ‘The Eumenides” by Aechylus, “Philoctetes” and “Oedipus at Colonus” by Sophocles, and “The Bacchae” and “Alcestis” by Euripides…
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I always find it interesting when I start something with no idea where it’s going and then, thanks to the smallest detail, it all falls into place. The novel for January that I thought would be a whole mobster affair now apparently has werewolves. Who’d’ve thought? I’m now really excited to see how this plays…
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I don’t really have much to write about today (a statement that makes part of me want to rebel and cry: “There’s always a lot to write about!”), but my intention is to muse a little bit each day, and so if it’s just a short quip about nothing of substance, so be it. I’m…
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Because my brain works in very odd ways and I have to give myself a bunch of random structured projects and bounce between them, in addition to the New Novel Project, I also have the project of reading at least 100 books a year. Last year, with the move, the efforts got all scrambled and…
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