I know, I know – you’ve waited since last week with bated breath. (Well, if you had, literally, you’d be dead – maybe half-bated breath? Occasionally bated breath?) So, without further ado…
I can tell you’re shivering with anticipation. Well, you already know I love most things by Diana Wynne Jones, so it should come as no surprise that I enjoyed these. After enjoying House of Many Ways so much, I thought I’d reread all of DWJ’s work, especially the ones that…
But first – yay for friends visiting and for visiting friends. My friend Christina visited Toronto from Texas this week, and now I’m in Ottawa, able to visit other friends. Thanks, Christina, for making it out to Toronto, and thanks, Ottawa people, for hanging out :) Right. Free speech. I’ve…
I’m not sure why I’ve never really enjoyed the work of Isaac Asimov – or at least, his science fiction. (He also wrote mystery stories about the Black Widowers and their waiter, Henry, which I liked to read in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.) Foundation never really did it for me;…
One thing I learned last Saturday is that playwrights Peter and Anthony Shaffer are identical twin brothers. How cool is that? (And also, how much would it suck when your professional artistic rival is the guy to whom you’ve been compared all your life? Peter Shaffer is most famous for…
Eighteen things I miss about SNES 16-bit video games:
I can’t think of anything interesting to write about. So here are some speculative fiction for middle grade and young adult readers that I like. None of them is by any means flawless, but I enjoyed them all. So there. As a bonus, here is one non-speculative fiction middle-grade book…
I have a habit of seeing movies way after their original release dates, and such is the case with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. But I saw it in IMAX! Doesn’t that count for something? Anyway, I found the movie really gripping. If you read this blog regularly and know…
One of my playwriting professors at Queen’s once advised our class that the way to tell when a piece of writing you were working on was done was when you no longer felt embarrassed to have other people read or perform it. Sound principle. He then, however, added a caveat:…
That, if you were wondering, was the sound of me this Friday afternoon. See, my sister’s birthday is around the end of the month, but since we won’t be in the same city that week, we decided to arrange for her present now. If you know my sister, you won’t…