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24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Rakem Sitta

From 4pm this afternoon until 4pm tomorrow afternoon, I’m joining in on the 24 Hour Read-A-Thon! It’s sort of a reading challenge, only everyone participates at the same time. For 24 hours, we read books, post in our blogs about our reading, and visit other readers’ blogs. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day. This [...]

Sunday Salon: “Creating Compelling Literary Characters”

On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “Creating Compelling Literary Characters: Good, Evil and Lolita’s Fingers”. Find out how, in both Ashes of the East and his latest [...]

Sunday Salon: “The English Language: Hero or Villain?”

On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “The English Language: Hero or Villain?”. For many decades and for many people, the English language has been considered the [...]

Sunday Salon: “Page to Screen to Page”

On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “Page to Screen to Page”: Readers are often passionate about how their literary heroes are translated from page to screen, [...]

Bloggiesta the Fifth

Bloggiesta was created by Natasha from Maw Books Blog and is now hosted by Suey from It’s All About Books and Danielle from There’s a Book. This weekend is the first mini-event between main events. Here’s the details: Bloggiesta starts today and runs through Sunday. Participate when and how you want. This is your time to improve on those little things [...]

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