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Dear Ms. Warren:
I went out and bought this book for myself. *runs around in circles* A while back I blogged about the seeming dearth of werewolf books, at least books that focus on the pack dynamics and the myths of the beast. Another reader suggested I try Christine Warren’s Big Bad Wolf. I [...]

Dear Ms. Moran:
While I was reading your new novel, The Heretic Queen, I kept thinking about Shelley’s poem about Ramesses II, “Ozymandias,” especially these lines: `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ The theme of Shelley’s poem is the impermanence of human power, which is echoed [...]

The Newsweek 7 chapter epic on the election was posted last week but apparently an expanded version will be in book form come Januar y.  I thought that the Newsweek piece was fascinating and this is one non fiction book I'll be buying as soon as it is on the market. Please let it be in [...]

 
It’s hard to believe that election day is finally here.  For months, nothing has been more prominent in my mind and my reading than this election.  I feel so blessed to not only  have the opportunity to vote, but to have cast my ballot for Obama via mail two weeks ago.  I hope that if [...]

There were reports of electronic machines switching votes last week because the machines weren't correctly calibrated.  Given the problems people have had with the computerized voting machines, some states are returning to the tried and true voting method – paper ballots.  This lead to the headline at Ars Technica of "Paper Ballot: The New Killer [...]

It has been rumored that Bin Laden has hired a ghost writer to pen a memoir about how evil the Western world is to the Muslim community. There are so many snarky and probably offensive things I could say about this given the election, but I’ll refrain. What I do wonder, though, [...]

While most of the literati seem firmly in Obama’s camp, the AAP sent out a warning about what an Obama presidency could mean for publishing (bad, in other words).
AP is concerned, for example, that based on their past academic relationship, Senator Obama might choose among his appointments a divisive figure such [...]