……you have several of these books in your own personal library – 12 More Weird Books That Really Exist. I guess I can’t resist a list, so when Mental Floss posted this list to my FB wall, I had to take a look. OK the first one is a coffee table book of fabulous photos of […]
Someone posted this video to my wall the other day. It’s the story behind the expression “KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.” In brief the British government in 1939 commissioned posters to be created, printed and distributed throughout the UK in an effort to calm fears about the impending war. Three posters were selected including the
This is day 42 in the 2013 blog-a-day challenge. I decided to post about the number 42 today because it is the meaning of life according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fortunately it falls on a weekend this year. I always think that weekends are more about life or at least the fun
Today in 1939 Gone With The Wind premiered in Atlanta Georgia. I don’t think that anyone who has ever seen the film has forgotten it. First there are the lines: “As God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be
At 9:45pm December 30, I posted a novel of 50,053 words to my Nanowrimo profile. Writing a novel has been on my bucket list for a while and with the help of National Novel Writing Month, I wrote one. Now writing a novel and publishing a novel are two different things. Still Nanowrimo makes you
Well I can now explain why I haven’t been posting as regularly as before. I have decided to enter another challenge and I am half way through. I am a little behind in meeting the deadline, but I think that I am close enough to maybe make it. If you haven’t guessed by my recent
NaNoWriMo a.k.a. NaBloPoMo. Now that would be National Novel Writing Month which actually started out as National Blog Posting Month. November is a month of “mo’s” or is that Movember. Anyway an editorial in The Star today said that last year more that 250,000 people signed up on the NaNoWriMo website with the intent to
“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.” –Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) And now for the best last lines – these are the crusts – first & last lines – you just need to add the filler 🙂 1. “I lingered round them, under that benign
In honour of NaBloPoMo – National Novel Writing Month – I found a site that has collected some of the “better” worse opening lines of a novel, after “It was a dark and stormy night….” Since 1982 the English department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition
I didn’t realize that this was “International Book Week,” until someone posted to my wall on FB. Actually what you are supposed to do is grab the book closest to you. Turn to page 52 and post the 5th sentence down to your status. I did this and I am not sure what it is
