so apparently there’s a Pride & Prejudice for babies (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
JRR Tolkien
question of the day: What is your favorite language invented for film, TV, or books?
Goa’uld is definitely one of mine, partly because I actually started to think in it, at least for a few basic vocabulary words, while watching Stargate SG-1…
question of the weekend: Should writers be encouraged to write multivolume novels?
Just as how it’s easier to market movies that are part of a franchise or are sourced from material that audiences are already familiar with, so it is with books…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (teaser trailer)
So apparently there’s some movie coming out about a fusty little homebody midget who goes on an adventure with a bunch of other midgets. Anyone heard anything about this?
‘Hobbit’ films gets titles, release dates
Letting the squeeing commence. Only 18 months to wait!
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Amy calls out the Doctor on being such a tease…
I figure this scene must be included on the new Fifth Series box set, but I haven’t had a chance to delve into that yet…
question of the day: Who the heck is Saoirse Ronan going to play in ‘The Hobbit’?
Please don’t tell me that she’s going to be a dwarf who, halfway through Mirkwood, reveals she’s actually Thorin Oakenshield’s teenage daughter who disobeyed Dad when he told her she couldn’t come along on his quest…
question of the day: Which movies are better than the books they’re based upon?
It’s official: Daniel Craig has been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood English-language production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I still kinda don’t see the point of remaking the movie so soon — the Swedish-language version is fantastic — but there’s no escaping it now. But it got me thinking about movies … more…
question of the weekend: What books do you read over and over again (or wish you had the time to reread)?
This weekend’s question was prompted by a conversation with my pal bronxbee, in which we lamented the fact that it’s almost impossible to keep up with all the new books being published that we’d like to read, never mind rereading all the books we love. (This is a not infrequent converation of ours.) So: What … more…
the further adventures of Nigel (Sunday)
[previous] Nigel the Charity Pig wanted to drive this morning as Bonnie and I headed to Oxford: I hated to have to point out to him that he couldn’t reach both the wheel and the pedals at the same time, but it’s true. At Balliol College: Oxford makes Nigel feel all literary, and he insisted … more…
