Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books You Would Classify As ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS from the past 3 years. It was surprisingly hard to choose! A few of my 5-star books didn’t make the cut; they… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books For Readers Who Like Character-Driven Novels A character-driven novel doesn’t mean there’s no plot, or that the plot is unimportant. It means that the plot – the action –… Read more »
The Bookwyrm’s Hoard has moved! As of today, I have a shiny new domain name: https://bookwyrmshoard.com . If you go to the old Blogspot address, you should be redirected here, but you may want to update whatever feed you use to follow blogs. I’ve asked Bloglovin to switch to the… Read more »
I love it when my favorite authors are publicly recognized for the excellence of their work! Congratulations to Tamora Pierce, who has won YALSA’s 2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award for “her significant and lasting contribution” to YA literature. Ms. Pierce was honored for two of her Tortall series, “The Song… Read more »
“Publishers and Google Reach Agreement” in the lawsuit over Google’s scanning and digitizing of books for the Google Library Project. (Press release on The Wall Street Journal‘s MarketWatch) “You will never kill piracy, and piracy will never kill you” (Paul Tassi, Forbes.) Tassi is talking about movie piracy rather… Read more »
In case you missed it, the latest Hobbit production video is up on The Hobbit Blog. It’s nearly 14 minutes long. If you’re excited about the upcoming movie, you won’t want to miss this. Dear Author reports on the Department of Justice’s recent release of comments about the proposed ebook… Read more »
© Like most bloggers, I’ve sometimes posted photos or pictures taken from the Internet, usually those I found through Google Images. However, I’ve sometimes wondered uneasily whether I was breaking copyright to do so. Recently, I’ve been more careful about the images I use. It turns out that I was… Read more »
If you (like me) are eagerly awaiting the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this winter, check out the new Hobbit production video just released. Peter Jackson and a host of other production team members take you on a backstage tour at the studio lot; there’s also a quick… Read more »
Photo by Modern Arts Studio, Oakland, California. From the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust website. Marion Zimmer Bradley, best known for her Darkover novels and a series of Arthurian fantasies beginning with The Mists of Avalon, was born on this day in 1930. She died in 1999. Bradley’s Darkover… Read more »
Want to know whose birthday it is? I’ve added a page of author (and illustrator) birthdays to this blog. For the most part, the authors listed are a mix of classic literary types, children’s authors, and authors of fantasy, SF, and mystery. They appear by date. You’ll find the page… Read more »
