Category Archives: Books and Reading

Best of the Blog: Writing Star Trek Novels, or, Why don’t you get a morally acceptable job?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by
The Entropy Effect

Editor’s note: We’re reprinting some of our favorite blog posts from the last five years. This week: Vonda N. McIntyre on writing Star Trek Novels. This one first appeared in 2009. By Vonda N. McIntyre Back in the 1980s, I … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 6-19-2013

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What did you recently finish reading? Under the Dome, by Stephen King, is a monster: 1300+ pages.  As with most of King’s work it’s big and ambitious and has a nifty … Continue reading →


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Monsters Under the Bed
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Posted on June 16, 2013 by

  As children, we all fear the invisible, mysterious, unpredictable monsters that might be lurking under our beds or in dark corners of our small worlds. We need parents to come in and vanquish them with warm milk or reassurances. … Continue reading →


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Consideration of Works “Past”: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

Usually I talk about works I read when I was younger now rediscovered. But in this case, I’m going to talk about something that I’ve read relatively recently– not the film version of Nausicaä.The manga. In a way, this is … Continue reading →


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Magic and Goosebumps

Posted on June 15, 2013 by

This week I’ve been thinking about books and narrators. Put the right narrator with the right work and sometimes the result can be magical. And, for me, the absolute pinnacle of this is the combination of the words of Dylan … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 6-12-2013

Posted on June 12, 2013 by
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It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. Hi. It’s me and I’m Pooks and I spilled iced tea on my MacBook Air yesterday and one shift key isn’t working right now. Since this is a very bizzy day, I’m … Continue reading →


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A Sense of History

Posted on June 9, 2013 by

    I’ve heard it said that California has no history. Well, that’s wrong. Written history of human lives, not so much. The people who lived here before the Spanish came didn’t leave records, but they were here. Richard Henry … Continue reading →


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Boneland, by Alan Garner: A Very Short Review

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

By Brenda Clough When he tried to plow through  Pilgrim’s Progress Huckleberry Finn famously remarked that it was tough.  Hah! He never read Boneland, the new novel by Alan Garner. Billed as a third book following the classic Weirdstone of … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 6-5-2013

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What did you recently finish reading? I just finished reading a book that’s still in manuscript. It’s my second time through it—the first time, I took a red pencil to it … Continue reading →


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Squaring the Circle at Seattle Public Library

Posted on June 3, 2013 by
Squaring The Circle

Translators Mariano Martin Rodriguez (from the original Romanian to Spanish) and Ursula K. Le Guin (in association with MMR from Spanish to English) appeared at the Seattle Public Library to launch Aqueduct Press’ edition of Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise … Continue reading →


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