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13 years ago @ http://readhanded.blog... - Are You a Fan of Fan F... · 0 replies · +1 points

Man, am I the only huge fandom nerd in here? *looks around, slightly abashed* I've been writing fanfiction since I was about twelve, and I still read a ton of it, mostly for movies and TV shows. I find that people seem to find it harder to pull off book-based fanfiction very well. To me, the best thing about fanfiction is finding a story for something really obscure, that you never thought anyone else loved as much as you do - and finding out that not only does someone else love it, they love it enough to write about it. <3 It's a wonderful community, and a lot of really good writers have been moving from fanfiction into publication lately - the Havemercy series by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett was written by two of my favorite fanfiction authors.

13 years ago @ http://readhanded.blog... - http://readhanded.blog... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks so much for posting this! I've not yet worked full-time in a library, so I love seeing what exactly people in my chosen profession do with their day....

13 years ago @ http://readhanded.blog... - The Best Books I Read ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I am a huge fan of Othello, but I didn't get exposed to that until college - my high school English class did heavily encourage attendance at the ACS's performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, for which I will be forever grateful.

13 years ago @ http://readhanded.blog... - The Best Books I Read ... · 1 reply · +1 points

One of my constant complaints about high school English is how we didn't really read any novels. We read To Kill a Mockingbird, of course, which I liked but was not wowed by, possibly because we read it at the glacial pace of about ten pages a week; I think we read Silas Marner, which was a terrible choice for high school students.

But we also read Julius Caesar, which I loved quite a lot, and which gave me a lifelong fondness for Shakespeare's histories that most people apparently do not share. And I was so annoyed that we didn't read it for class that I picked up The Great Gatsby on my own and found it surprisingly fun - I'd like to reread it someday.

13 years ago @ http://readhanded.blog... - Short Story Monday · 1 reply · +1 points

Trivia: This story was also turned into a rather impressive noir horror film called Cat People in 1942 (which I watched in my recent three-month-long noir marathon). Simone Simon plays Irene wonderfully, and it's a great example of how well-done lighting can stand in for special effects.
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13 years ago @ http://www.parajunkee.... - PJ Review: Aftertime b... · 1 reply · +1 points

Ooh, now that sounds good. Like you, I love a good dystopia, but I lean toward the YAs because sometimes the adult versions are just too much. But then again, sometimes it's exactly what you want. This sounds like a good alternative to The Road, which I've been thinking about reading for a while but keep putting off because I'm sick of father/son relationships at the expense of everything else.
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13 years ago @ http://www.parajunkee.... - Guest Post: James Jaro... · 0 replies · +1 points

This book sounds fantastic - I love a good postapocalypse. As for whether or not the apocalypse is coming, well, I don't think it will come all at once. I think it'll be a slow, creeping thing that most of us don't realize until after it's over. Much like the world always changes, actually. But I do think that it'll become more and more important to be able to make do for yourself, and skills like cooking and sewing and making things with your own hands will be more important as the world changes.
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