Archive: Books category
Time for another update on what I'm reading. Wednesday I started reading Orson Scott Card's Empire (which was the first book I ever bought at a grocery store -- and the only one, so far :)). A bit more profanity than I'd like (it seems to glance off ...
I was at the bookstore the other day and saw a copy of Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Look a little familiar?
Eerily similar to the cover for Twilight, no?
(It being Christmas Eve, the tie-in to Christmas ...
I've been reading some interviews with poets lately, and it's given me an itch to read more poetry. So yesterday I picked up one of my anthologies (Immortal Poems of the English Language) and opened to a random page. Happened to be Emily Dickinson. Poetry is meant ...
Tomorrow my arm's getting amputated.
You see, BYU library's power outage starts first thing tomorrow morning, and it's going to black out over half the library -- everything from the main entrance south. I work in the north end, so that won't be a problem, but what will be a ...
Ever since I heard that The Dark Is Rising was going to be made into a movie, I was of course pins and needles with excitement. Then a few weeks ago one of my friends mentioned that she'd wanted to go see it, but it had only been in ...
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK -- Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."
Jackson, who directed the "Rings" trilogy, will serve as executive producer for "The Hobbit." A director for the ...
The Prince Caspian trailer is out. Mmm. Now, just how many days till May 16? :)
In other news (from a rather opposite direction :)), at Christianity Today I came across Jeffrey Overstreet's review of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (part of the His Dark Materials ...
My reader's edition of the Book of Mormon is now part of Special Collections here at the HBLL (thanks to Hilary for letting me know it had gotten out of cataloguing):
The first of what will hopefully be many. ;) (To be ...
Looks like I get an early peek at PBS's Christmas present to me: Masterpiece Theatre is broadcasting all six Jane Austen novels (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility) starting January 13. Mmm. :) And if that wasn't enough, they're also ...
I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let's not worry about the to-go part just yet -- I've got a month of freedom to enjoy first. :)
Remember how I said I was going to write a nonfiction book? ...
