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Six words

There’s an interesting book where famous and not-so-famous writers sum up their lives in just six words.

A few examples:

“Well, generic viagra stuff I thought it was funny.” Stephen Colbert

Revenge is living well without you.” Joyce Carol Oates

“Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again.” A.J. Jacobs

My six words?

“I thought it would be different.”

7 comments February 22nd, 2008

Can you tell when a woman wrote a book?

I can and I’m not sure why.

Is it the choice of topics?

Diction?

Pacing?

Focus on characters?

I’m not sure, best viagra health but when it comes to a piece of fiction I can usually identify the sex of the author after reading the first page.

One of the places this does not hold true is J.K. Rowling. Again. I’m not sure why.

So, can anyone else do this? And is even talking about it sexist?

8 comments February 20th, 2008

As if we didn’t already know George Orwell was a genius

From the unpublished preface of George Orwell’s Animal Farm:

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

3 comments December 31st, 2007

If you were wondering where my previous post about Liberals and the U.S.A. came from

I’m reading Blood and Thunder.

It’s historical non-fiction about Kit Carson and the “winning” of the American West.

It’s an excellent read and reminds you that even today’s toughest kids in America’s worse ghettos are like little kittens compared to all the folks who were routinely butchering and enslaving each other in the 1800s.

3 comments October 11th, 2007

I love Oprah’s Book Club

It makes it easier for me to know which books not to buy.

3 comments October 7th, 2007

Harry Potter spoilers here

Still wondering what Harry would do for a living? J.K. Rowling reveals some details missing from the last book in an interview on MSNBC.

Also, cialis generic physician the character she was planning on killing but didn’t was Mr. Weasley. ;)

Add comment July 26th, 2007

You know what I love most about the people who want to ban books from libraries?

They often have really good taste.

Below, viagra generic cialis I’ve highlighted the books that I actually own from the American Library Associations’ list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000:

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, viagra usa site Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, online God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Which of these books, if any, do you own?

4 comments July 25th, 2007

Done

I finished the last Harry Potter book and now I can return to the Internet without constant fear of running across a spoiler. Good book, viagra canada ed by the way. Slow in parts, like the last one, but when you’re the most successful novelist on the planet you tend to ignore editors.

4 comments July 22nd, 2007