elbales: (Bitch please - BSG)
Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] litgoddess. Boldface by me.

OH GOD NOT LITERATURE IN ENGLISH CLASS )

Idiots. They're making Texas look bad worse. Nice, intelligent people live there! I swear it!
 
elbales: (No man is an island - John Donne)
Such a pity she's not in the world any more. Her books meant so much to me when I was a kid. She transcended genres. She had a real gift for weaving her faith into her work in a way that felt integral to the story she was telling, but never preachy. She wrote the kind of books that change you.

One of [livejournal.com profile] cleolinda's readers, [livejournal.com profile] faeriemaiden, wrote a lovely and thoughtful tribute to her. I don't know her, but I wanted to share it anyway.

Of all her books, I think A Ring of Endless Light is my favorite. According to her website, new editions of the whole Time Quintet were just released this past May.

I think it's time to re-read.
 
elbales: (Girl Reading-Perugini)
There's a wonderful article in a recent issue of The Horn Book Magazine, a journal about children's and YA lit. The author, a teacher of fifth-grade English, does this really cool exercise with her students that makes creative and constructive use of Mary Sues.


Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] rurounitriv.
 
elbales: (Girl Reading-Perugini)
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

It's said that Cicero wrote this, but I guess there's some disagreement. So did he?

Emma? Amanda?

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