Just a quick head-up, I’ve started a new tumblr. It’ll just be photos of Whats in my garden, or what I think is in my garden :)
It’s just full of accounts of sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex, and finishes with an account of what he considers homosexual behaviour, and it was fascinating via BBC News – ‘Depraved’ sex acts by penguins shocked polar explorer.
Jean Craighead George has died.George was an author of young-adult literature, including the Newbery Medal winning Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, which won the Newbery Honor. Her works doubtlessly introduced millions of young readers to the joys of literature.
from RIP | MetaFilter.
So much for my resolution to not buy any more hard copy books until I buy my new house…
Via Adventures of a Bookonaut: Cover Candy–Ticonderoga and Twelfth Planet Press.
When we submit to fiction–whether in novels, songs, or films—we allow ourselves to be invaded by storytellers who seize control of us cognitively and emotionally. from The Storytelling Animal: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall | Literally Psyched, Scientific American Blog Network. (via Metafilter)
http://www.themarysue.com/the-lost-portrait-of-transvestite-spy-chevalier-deon/
From The Mary Sue here are the 2011 Nebula Nominees that you can read for free: Novellas “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011) “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente (WFSA Press; Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011) “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by …
