Okay, so I’m not the only one who noticed that Marvel has a serious problem. I guess… [insert something here about the decade in which the company was born?] Maybe Marvel hasn’t gotten with the times yet. (By the way, it’s 2015 now. Girls want superhero action figures/role models/etc. just as much as boys do. Trust me, I’m a parent of young girls. I’ve got my finger on the pulse of what makes 5 year old girls tick.) Oh, you…
I was listening to the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (which is absolutely AWESOME, by the way, if you haven’t started listening to it, you absolutely should) and in their interview with Hugh Howey, which is Podcast #83, they discussed how Hugh Howey’s book, Wool. (Available on Amazon and other fine retailers.) I haven’t read the book. Yet. I hear it’s wonderful, and it’s on my to-do list not only because of the great reviews and my desire to…
(In which I rant, admittedly likely unfoundedly, about people using “page number” when we should all switch to “word count”…) I found an article this morning called The 10 Best Books Shorter than 150 Pages by Sarah Gerard. While the article is informative and interesting (and gave me a few more books to add to my every growing ‘Need to read again’ list), I can’t help but nitpick on one point. Why is it that we use the archaic “page count”…
I went to the meeting of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writer’s Club today in Oakland. It was a grand adventure with my girl friend. We took the BART, which is always an adventure, and walked a half mile from the Lake Merritt Station to the Oakland Library. The journey was relatively uneventful; there were no strangers cursing at me on the BART, which has happened in the past. We were only asked for money a half dozen times…