I found this article yesterday on an author’s blog and I absolutely agree with the article (and the author’s sentiment, though I won’t link back out of courtesy to the author’s post’s request). The article’s author makes a terrific, and alarming, point about the potentially dangerous and potent message of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [...]
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The argument: Bella is no Buffy, to her detriment.
posted by erin on December 5, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-argument-bella-is-no-buffy-to-her-detriment
Princeps’ Fury by Jim Butcher
This morning I finished the fifth and latest installment in Butcher’s Codex Alera series, Princeps’ Fury. I have been a fan of them since picking them up from the library earlier this year. I now own 1 to 4 in paperback, all ready for me to read through again. Back to Princeps’ Fury: it was [...]
posted by erin on December 4, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/princeps-fury-by-jim-butcher
The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
I just finished The High Lord by Trudi Canavan, instead of writing (more) for NaNoWriMo. I’m down to the wire and a little behind for my early deadline but I could not put this book down. Absolutely could not. I decided I’d read a chapter or two earlier (I’d been doing that with the book [...]
posted by erin on November 25, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-high-lord-by-trudi-canavan
NaNoWriMo, Day 14
My NaNo novel is an unwieldy beast. And by that I mean it’s going well but its plot can easily go in four directions and I’m conflicted but only really conflicted because I am sort of getting to the point of procrastination. I KNOW, it’s day 14, I can’t afford that. But even so. I’m [...]
posted by erin on November 14, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/nanowrimo-day-14
