I would totally read this (even faster than I would Pride & Prejudice & Zombies): (via Caustic Cover Critic)
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Let The Right One In
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist It’s been a long while since I’ve read anything this wonderful, engrossing, or disturbing. It’s been years since I’ve read anything this good. Let The Right One In is everything that you think it is, and nothing that you think it is. Vampires, you think. Well, […]
Posted by Ben on April 2, 2009
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Seen and Heard, 2008
In lieu of a numbered list, here you’ll find a bulleted list — well, several of them — covering my favorite books and movies of 2008. And, because I’m slow, a goodly number of them will be of items released before 2008. But that’s when I saw them. So there. Enjoy! In Theaters: Let The […]
Posted by Ben on January 10, 2009
https://www.swordbilled.com/seen-and-heard-2008/
Books, telling stories
I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but haven’t gotten around to it. Book spines, telling stories. You don’t even need to open them! (via Bookslut via TMN)
Posted by Ben on October 5, 2008
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Once again, “If you give a moose a muffin” comes to the rescue
Filed under Things I Am Bad At: Judge a book by its cover. The goal of this (simple, difficult) game is to guess the average number of stars under the book’s listing on Amazon. You get a running tally of how many you guessed correctly.
Posted by Ben on October 2, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/once-again-if-you-give-a-moose-a-muffin-comes-to-the-rescue/
Perilous indeed
A book’s journey from one language into another can be perilous. The Russian title for J. D. Salinger’s classic tale of adolescence translates as “Above the Precipice in the Rye.†A clerk in a Yokohama bookshop once told John Steinbeck’s wife that yes, he had a copy of Steinbeck’s “Angry Raisins.†Has this bumpy road gotten […]
Posted by Ben on September 4, 2008
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Strangely, ‘Left Behind’ isn’t
The top 10 most discarded books in hotel rooms 1. The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell 2. Don’t You Know Who I Am? by Piers Morgan 3. A Whole New World by Jordan 4. Wicked by Jilly Cooper 5. Dr Who Creatures & Demons by Justin Richard 6. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown 7. […]
Posted by Ben on August 21, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/strangely-left-behind-isnt/
Useful information, by any standard
No child should touch a gun or pistol, or on any account present one at another person. We behold a little boy shooting his sister dead! And: Here we see the danger of playing with lighted candles. One little girl has set the bed-curtains on fire, and the other her hair; and both are in […]
Posted by Ben on July 24, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/useful-information-by-any-standard/
I Am Legend
I’d always assumed the criteria were loose (at best), but I didn’t realize that the only necessary condition of stating that a movie is “Based On” the book is a cursory glance at the book’s cover and a $150 million budget. No, really; that’s it. And I know “the book” is traditionally supposed to be […]
Posted by Ben on July 15, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/i-am-legend/