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You know how we got taught in elementary school that Native Americans used...
From Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle “No tiniest particle of organic matter was wasted in Durham’s. Out of the horns of the cattle they made combs, buttons, hairpins, and imitation ivory; out of the...
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Wrap-Up Season 2011: Surprisingly Good Books, part two
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – This is the novel about Chicago’s meat-packing industry that put the nation into such an uproar over how their meat was prepared (at one point it implies that when...
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I really really really like ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Just like everyone else in the world, I just watched the second season of Orange Is The New Black and, just like everyone else in the world, I loved it. I was a bit shocked by just how much I liked it....
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If you’re gonna make a speech in your novel, you should just make a speech!
John Scalzi recently linked to his review of Atlas Shrugged, which made me think of my own post about the book (which is, incidentally, my favorite novel). And that made me remember my major criticism...
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