Time for another Book Blogger Hop question: How will we be reading in 100 years’ time? Will there be any printed books left? How about ereaders? What might they look like?
Such an interesting question! I am sure much has been written on the subject by people far better informed than I, but here’s my particular theory on it… Continue reading “Blog Hop: Reading a Hundred Years From Now”
This week’s Imaginary Illustration is for the book-lovers…which is probably all of you! 🙂 Another quote from my upcoming novel, The Storyteller and Her Sisters.
I know I read The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells some ten or fifteen years ago–and I must have completely forgotten it. Frankly, if I had remembered it more clearly, I don’t think I would have reread it! But since I did (well, listened to it on audio), I’m counting it as a read for R.I.P., as classic horror and certainly full of mists and mystery.
The story begins with a reclusive, bandaged man taking lodgings at an inn, there to work on a mysterious experiment. It’s not much of a spoiler to say that the bandaged man eventually removes his bandages–and is completely invisible. Unfortunately, he’s also a complete psychopath. He wreaks a fair degree of havoc until he eventually runs into an old acquaintance, and sits down for an extended narration about how he became invisible, and his future plans to (more or less) conquer the world.
For the record, I like old books. I really do. I can handle a fair degree of slow writing, a fair amount of focus on random side characters, and even a plot that takes a little while to get going. I just finished Shirley, a Charlotte Bronte novel that had all of those problems, and still enjoyed it immensely. But The Invisible Man? Sad to say, I found it pretty irredeemable. Continue reading “Book Review: The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells”
Continuing my new blog feature, sharing quotes from my (unillustrated) books, paired with pictures. Today it’s another quote from The Wanderers, another of my wandering adventurer’s rules for life–one which I think many heroes of fantasy novels would do well to follow!
If the heroes in horror novels would just follow this, the bloodshed would be so reduced…
Before I get to the actual focus of this post, just a note about novel news! Last week I told you The Storyteller and Her Sisters was available for pre-order on Kindle. If Kindle’s not your thing, you can now pre-order other ebook formats through Smashwords! All ebooks will be delivered, and the paperback will go on sale, on October 10th.
Now on to other business…
I’m really dreadful at keeping up with Top Ten Tuesday (even though it’s such a cool meme!) but every so often I see that they’ve done a neat topic I’d like to write on…so even though it’s Friday, and even though this was the topic for several weeks ago, today I’m going to write about the Top Ten Authors I Own the Most Books By.
1) Edgar Rice Burroughs: 56
It helps that he was extremely prolific. There’s probably still a good 15 books I don’t own. Though perhaps I should point out, of my 56, 54 of them work with the same two plots: the hero is castaway or the heroine is kidnapped, or both.
2) L. M. Montgomery: 47
You expected this one, right? That breaks down into 21 novels, 12 collections of short stories (200 total stories), 6 volumes of her journals (7, but one is an abridged version of 2 others), 3 books of letters, 2 books of poetry, 2 collections of early writings, and 1 autobiography. And…that’s going to stay as-is because there’s nothing else to buy, until someone digs out another archive and publishes something new. (Though I also have two biographies and two collections of critical essays…) Continue reading “Weighing Down the Shelves…”
Tales of the Marvelous 