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Every so often, I come across yet another book being described as “Watership Down for/with x,” where x is some...

As a gift for Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday last year, Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin put together a...

I've been reading Don Quixote in fits and starts, and just got to the scene in chapter 6 where Quixote's...

In olden days when people used to read printed books, if you saw someone reading in public, you might be...

Been meaning to link to this for ages: Anil Menon and Vandana Singh are putting together a Speculative Ramayana anthology....

Speaking of reading (as I was at the end of my previous entry), I've been getting back to doing more...

Finally finished reading Jane Eyre. I originally picked it up because I wanted to read The Eyre Affair and figured...

At WisCon last weekend, they announced that the guests of honor for next year will be Nisi Shawl and Elizabeth...

I read Tuck Everlasting sometime in the early '90s, I think, and loved it. (I suspect I might not have...

I cannot but read the following innocent passage from Jane Eyre with a certain inappropriate amusement. It's a scene in...

As many of y'all may recall, a year ago I committed the sacrilege of disliking Inkheart (the book). One of...

I recently learned about another modern movie that takes a Shakespeare play and reworks it to set it in a...