Funny video of a talking photo booth

A really funny video of a talking photo booth at Universal Studios.A talking photo booth can be considered fantasy, rig...

Favorite Book Endings at Grasping for The Wind

Grasping for The Wind has an interesting blog post where they asked various scifi and fantasy blogs about their favorite book ending and then posted the answers here.Many of the books that were referred to were ones I've never read, so I now have a whole bunch of new books added to my To Be Read pile. It's particularly enticing to pick up a book knowing that someone thinks that the ending is really good. Reading all the different answers also made me think about what it is that I like about an ending and which books that I have read lately that...

Currently Reading: Lord Foul's Bane and Fire

Unfortunately I haven't had time to get much reading, or anything else, done lately since my 1 1/2 year old has progressed into the "Terrible Twos" early (I always did say he was advanced). As soon as my attention is focused elsewhere, the little guy will begin emptying out kitchen drawers, throwing books off the shelves and sweeping everything off the table tops so that he can stamp around on top of them. And if the laptop is not being used, he...

Jasper Fforde NaNoWriMo Pep Talk

Speaking of Jasper Fforde, I just received a Pep Talk email that he sent through the NaNoWriMo mailing list to encouraging fledgling writers. Definitely worth reading for any aspiring author. Dear Writer, I once wrote a novel in 22 days. 31 chapters, 62,000 words. I didn’t do much else—bit of sleeping, eating, bath or two—I just had three weeks to myself and a lot of ideas, an urge to write, a 486 DOS laptop and a quiet room. The book was terrible....

Non-Genre Book Reviews

Await Your Reply by Dan ChaonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertFree Fall by Anna LevineGirl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarsonHands of My Father by Myron UhlbergSomething Missing by Matthew DicksSweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsTwenties Girl by Sophie Kinse...

Help me Interview Jasper Fforde and win a Fforde Book

One of the great things about having a book blog is that it gives me an excuse to get in touch with authors whose books I enjoy. So after recently completing another wonderfully fun and quirky Thursday Next novel, I contacted the author, Jasper Fforde, for an interview.Mr. Fforde responded (yes, I'm interacting with the man himself!) that he would be happy to answer some questions for me, if they are not ones that he has already answered. The email included a link to a list of 500 + questions and answers, from Jasper Fforde's website.I visited...