http://www.flightintofantasy.com Reviews of science fiction, fantasy, romance and other books of the moment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:52:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It looks as if the Desert Isle Keeper madness that Lisabea has started will be continuing. And since I guess this is the last day for stowaways, I've finally gotten a chance to participate. Now, I know that all three of you who read this blog are dying to know what ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/06/12/in-which-i-finally-get-some-dik/ I went on kind of a tear on a yahoo group recently and bitched about how I sometimes feel that authors expect all reviewers to look for things to say to trash their books. Obviously, I disagree with this assessment, as evidenced by tonight. Tonight I was vassilating between two books ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/06/08/book-lust/ Holly over at Book Binge, who I like to think of as my good blogger twin, posted a meme. Given how opposed we are to original content over here I thought I'd do it. Contemporary, Historical, or Paranormal? Paranormal, followed by historical and contemp. It really depends on my mood. Hardback or ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/06/07/look-kids-a-book-meme/ I have class tonight, and am still in the stage where this is exciting. I even enjoyed the chapter I read in my textbook. And I'm one of the non-elementary ed majors. I even prepared for the class by finding some classic children's books from my youth that I want ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/06/05/daily-musings/ So my summer class started today. I like my children's lit teacher. Or, at least, the woman who is teaching the first two sections of the class. She seems to really like kids, and the class is going to be fun, I think. But of course she was an English ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/06/03/another-day-another-class/ I realize this has nothing to do with anything I usually talk about over here, but it is an observation I am making. I really enjoy the New Age channel on my XM radio. I've had it on today in the background, and it's worked beautifully as background music. But occasionally, ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/05/29/in-the-department-of-things-that-only-amuse-me/ I was going to make this an actual TGTBTU book review, but have decided not to, mostly because (1) I'm lazy and (2) I just want to freak Lisabea out by writing up two blog posts in as many days. So, here, have a mini-review. Title: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland Author: ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/05/27/review-tough-guide-to-fantasyland-by-diana-wynne-jones/ Look, Lisabea! A post! Mrs. Giggles today has a post about some romance epub which is requesting stories featuring big, beautiful men. Excuse me while I giggle for just a second at that one. I can see someone writing slightly huskier guys, but given that nobody is writing romances about women my ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/05/26/big-beautiful-men/ Ahhh, blogging. I haven't been doing enough of it over here lately. But I'll try to get better, I really will. Last night, while other people my age were no doubt getting drunk, cavorting and having fun, I was scrounging up links so that we could update the links page over ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/05/18/meta-blogging/ I finally got around to reading SB Sarah's latest column on the segregation of black romance. I found the comments interesting, but figured I would just make a post over here rather than leave my own massive comment since I'm not sure how good I will be at making sense. I ... http://www.flightintofantasy.com/2008/05/12/on-black-romance-and-white-privilege/