September 2011
30 posts
who killed videogames? (a ghost story) →
Statement of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai... →
'Quixote,' Colbert and the Reality of Fiction →
book review: eragon →
And we hit the first book for my SFF course that I really didn’t like. At all. I know Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon when he was fifteen so he can’t really be held up to real standards, but…
Foto's - Google+ →
G+: A coke machine ate Holly’s money so they sent her this reimbursement money order. It’s for $2.
Jon Stewart and the Burden of History →
DJ Shadow: The Internet Is Not Your Savior →
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“The problem with public libraries is that competent librarianship is not valued....”
– Ed D’Angelo
movie review: the french lieutenant’s woman «... →
movie review: the french lieutenant’s woman
movie review: the french lieutenant’s woman →
Holly got some DVDs from the library the other day, and one of them was The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), based on the book by John Fowles, which I’d read in China. I remembered that…
book review: interstellar pig « librarianaut →
book review: interstellar pig
book review: interstellar pig →
I remember the first time I read William Sleator’s Interstellar Pig. Well no, I don’t remember the first time exactly, but I remember the shelf in the Pembina Trail public library where I got it…
book review: the golden compass « librarianaut →
book review: the golden compass
Here I am reviewing my own game. | Call of Cthulhu... →
Could Pluto be home to a hidden liquid ocean? →
Good Will Hunting is my Least Favorite Movie of... →
The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential - A book... →
The Children’s Authors Who Broke the Rules →
Found one! We re-unite an author with an “orphaned... →
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Do You Speak Geek? →
Integrating Zotero and Scrivener for citation... →
The time the Giants called Jerome Williams the... →
book review: harry potter and the philosopher’s... →
The first Harry Potter book (which I’ll snobbily refer to by its English title of Philosopher’s Stone rather than its American one) is the only one I’d read before, despite helping kids (and…
book review: the lion the witch and the wardrobe «... →
book review: the lion the witch and the wardrobe
book review: the lion the witch and the wardrobe →
I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for my SFF reader advisory class. Now, those who’ve ever had occasion to discuss C.S. Lewis with me know my story about having Narnia ruined for me by…
sff course reading list « librarianaut →
sff course reading list
On the prevalence of US tropes in storytelling →
book review: have spacesuit, will travel →
I read Robert Heinlein’s Have Spacesuit, Will Travel for my SF class. It’s weird how 1950s it feels (even as it namedrops brands like Goodyear and GE). The kid (who I think is way younger than he’s…