News: the Fire paperback is coming out on January 25, 2011 and is available now for pre-order on Amazon and BN.com. I don’t have any timing information regarding Bitterblue, but I promise to post it here once I do. So, my subject heading is a line of dialogue I enjoyed from last week’s episode of… Read more »
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (and other great titles)
So, in my neighborhood, there’s a train track and a road that both curve in such a way that they cross each other twice. Here, I’ll draw a picture of it to show you what I mean (that’s the track on top, the road on the bottom): Now, I ask you to consider, for a… Read more »
Intertextuality
Dutch cover for the YA edition —-> click to enlarge —–> So, I read Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, before I ever read Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca (1938) or Mary Stewart’s Nine Coaches Waiting (1958). Do you know those two books? Both of them are obviously influenced by Charlotte Brontë’s novel; I’d go so far… Read more »
