Bethany tagged me for this one… 1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why? If I absolutely had to pick one, I guess I would have to say Robertson Davies. His books fill me up completely. I posted this quote from Zadie Smith once before, but it bears repeating, since it’s the answer to the second part [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
The art of the semi-fictional journal
Debra’s comment on my last post got me thinking. She said that the idea of keeping journals on behalf of D&D characters is “a way to approach first-person narrative that hadn’t occurred to me before.” The more I thought about it, the more I realized what a fascinating process it is. I wasn’t kidding when [...]
Weekly Geeks #5: Storytelling
This week’s theme is to write about “other forms of storytelling, aside from books.” Heh, that’s easy. My favorite form of storytelling is the collaborative kind: Dungeons & Dragons. Oh yeah. A good D&D campaign follows the same kind of arc as any good story, as the plot unfolds and the tension & suspense increase. [...]
Sunday Salon: a young woman, a serial killer, and a little girl
Oy veh! What a busy week! Those of you with school-age children (I have three) know that this time of year is almost as bad as December, what with recitals, field trips, and all those end of year events, not to mention the figuring out of what’s going to keep ‘em occupied all summer long. [...]
Sunday Salon: Two, unusual
Greetings, Saloners! I hope you had a good week of reading. This week I finished one, started another (well, started two, actually), and had a couple of reading experiences that were a pleasant change from the usual. 1. Reading with hubby I wish this wasn’t out of the ordinary. Steve and I have similar taste in books [...]
His Majesty’s Dragon
Oh my goodness, I hardly know where to begin. This book was so much fun to read! The basic premise is, it’s an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars — with dragons! Yes, that’s right. There was an aerial combat corps (dragons) at the Nile, at Trafalgar, and so forth. Hoo boy! Well, I have three [...]
Weekly Geeks #3: Childhood reading, take 2
Well, I’m having so much fun reading other Weekly Geeks’ lists of childhood favorites that I thought I better post one of my own after all. I am going to try to list only books that I haven’t already mentioned in other posts. So no Joan Aiken, no Louisa May Alcott, no Arthur Ransome, C.S. [...]