February 2009
Review: Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
Fri, 02/27/2009 - 00:56 — AnonymousWondrous Strange is about Kelley, an aspiring actress in New York City, who, like most people, doesn’t really believe in faeries offstage. She’s an understudy in an off-Broadway (way off Broadway) production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and that’s as close to the supernatural as she comes, until a horse (that isn’t really a horse) who eats frosted cereal (and nothing else) takes up residence in her bathtub, and she has one too many encounters with a weird stranger.
The weird stranger, Sonny, is really just trying to protect Kelley, but she doesn’t know that. He notices that something about her is different–that she is not exactly human. He guards the Samhain gate in Central Park. That gate connects the dangerous, enchanted faerie realm with the human one, and the consequences if certain faeries were to get through could be disastrous.
Faeries, as you may have noticed, are huge right now. And, while this was an enjoyable read, honestly, there are a lot of better faerie stories; this one is largely unremarkable. ...
Netherland
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 17:51 — Anonymous"Gatsbyesque Character" -- video review of "Netherland", by Joseph O'Neill
...When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 13:20 — Anonymous"How Does It Compare?" -- video review of "When You Are Engulfed in Flames", by David Sedaris
...Trick or Treatment
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 13:16 — Anonymous"Alternative Medicine?" -- video review of "Trick or Treatment", by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
...Charles Darwin – Inspiration in Literature?
Mon, 02/16/2009 - 20:13 — Anonymous“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” | Dobzhansky.
Surprisingly, both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on February 12, 1809. In 2009 we mark the bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of both their births. There are many other things connecting these two influential men, most of all the sense of truth and of championing new possibilities in how we see our world, as well as the fact that deeds of both have changed our world forever.
November 2009 also marks the 150th birthday of Charles Darwin’s epochal evolution text On the The Origin of Species. To commemorate the occasion Danish theater prepare Darwin-Inspired Opera called Tomorrow, in a Year. The piece is set to debut in Copenhagen in November 2009, and takes as its inspiration Darwin’...
Electronic Book Reader – Why, Which, Where?
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 19:36 — AnonymousElectronic book readers aren’t useful because they replicate books, but because they add value to them.
If you are an avid reader, you may find it much more convenient to download books then trying to get them from the bookstore or library. However, sitting in front of a PC monitor to do your reading is usually frustrating experience. Furthermore, notebook and tablet computers are too big and bulky for this simple task, while the most PDAs have too small of a screen for convenient reading.
What we want is a hand-held, portable device that can read a variety of file formats, especially scanned, non-text PDFs. A large screen, long battery life, and good interface are other attributes of a perfect electronic book reader.
Portable Ebook Readers Technology
With its iPod, Apple has demonstrated that millions of people are willing to carry around digital devices with their favorite content. After music, why not novels and nonfiction?
Many experts are convinced that digital books, after plenty of false starts, are finally ready for takeoff. With latest product releases we have definit...