Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
Howard Nemerov
ybb55:  Olga -  Autumn fairy tale

ybb55:

 Olga -  Autumn fairy tale

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hmhbooks:

The Goodreads Choice Awards are back again and opening round voting is underway! There are SO many great books up for just a few titles, including a few of our own babies (pictured above), so vote now to see your favorites win! You have until November 10. 

ALSO, in support of our HMH Kids group, show some love to SON by Lowis Lowry (the final novel in the GIVER Quartet) in the Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction category but writing in your vote at the bottom of the page. Use the ISBN: 9780547887203. 

A Question for Halloween: What’s the Scariest Story You’ve Ever Read?

Mine? Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard. Stephen King claims it’s the scariest story he’s ever read as well, so I’m in good company.

And this is why I do not care for politicians.

And this is why I do not care for politicians.

I finally got my copy of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. There have been nothing but rave reviews about this book. From the inside dust jacket flap:“Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children’s hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel’s epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel’s identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers—also known as the celebrated Marvel “Bullpen.” Entrusted to carry on tradition, Marvel’s contributors—impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them—struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another.For the first time, Marvel Comics reveals the outsized personalities behind the scenes, including Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; and Jack Kirby, the World War II veteran who’d co-created Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless debates.Drawing on more than one hundred original interviews with Marvel insiders then and now, Marvel Comics is a story of fertile imaginations, lifelong friendships, action-packed fistfights, reformed criminals, unlikely alliances, and third-act betrayals—a narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America’s history.”I’m really looking forward to reading this book.

I finally got my copy of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. There have been nothing but rave reviews about this book.

From the inside dust jacket flap:

“Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children’s hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel’s epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel’s identity has continually shifted, careening between

scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers—also known as the celebrated Marvel “Bullpen.” Entrusted to carry on tradition, Marvel’s contributors—impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them—struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another.

For the first time, Marvel Comics reveals the outsized personalities behind the scenes, including Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; and Jack Kirby, the World War II veteran who’d co-created Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless debates.

Drawing on more than one hundred original interviews with Marvel insiders then and now, Marvel Comics is a story of fertile imaginations, lifelong friendships, action-packed fistfights, reformed criminals, unlikely alliances, and third-act betrayals—a narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America’s history.”

I’m really looking forward to reading this book.
You know what I don’t like about adults? They stop being kids.
TBV; Conversations from the Frontlines
theparisreview: “It’s the writer’s job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.” —Kurt VonnegutIllustration Credit David A. Johnson

theparisreview:

“It’s the writer’s job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.” —Kurt Vonnegut
Illustration Credit David A. Johnson

amarylis-dei: “There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.” (Betty MacDonald)

amarylis-dei:

“There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”

(Betty MacDonald)

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
William Ellery Channing (via bluesandbarebones)
Only the World Wide Web is not as accurate, reliable, or imaginative. It takes time and effort to gather genuine facts and write them down. It takes hours of research, tons of time to pour through material to find the correct information. On the Web all one has to do is spout out anything and people think it’s correct. Pretty sad actually. I’ll take books over the Web every time.

Only the World Wide Web is not as accurate, reliable, or imaginative. It takes time and effort to gather genuine facts and write them down. It takes hours of research, tons of time to pour through material to find the correct information. On the Web all one has to do is spout out anything and people think it’s correct. Pretty sad actually.

I’ll take books over the Web every time.

berfrois


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bookporn: Words Take Flight by Speakerine

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Words Take Flight by Speakerine

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Shameless Plug

If you enjoy reading science fiction/fantasy, then check out Space Eldritch. It is now available on Nook eReaders.  A friend of mine (David West) and fellow Robert E. Howard fan contributed to the work. If you own a Nook follow the link, it will take you directly to the work.

Here’s a description of the work:

Startling Stories meets Weird Tales in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera. Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R. Collings ( author of over 100 books), plus a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia, SPACE ELDRITCH inhabits the intersection between the eternal adventure of the final frontier and the inhuman darkness between the stars.

Okay, shameless plug over, go about your usual reading. Cheers!

grayskymorning: Shakespeare and Company | Daniel Lurie

grayskymorning:

Shakespeare and Company | Daniel Lurie

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