>and Anne her e. But what’s the difference between gray and grey?
>Matthew insists on puffed sleeves
March 7, 2010 By 22 Comments
>Infer this.
December 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
>Think before you write.
October 8, 2009 By 11 Comments
>”The red liquid was wine, but it shimmered like blood.”–from The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I’m sure Stephenie Meyer could be trusted to rearrange this simile into its proper order. And can we talk about that title for a minute? In my opinion, “The Lost Symbol” is right up there with “When You Reach [...]
>Get Your Factoids Straight
September 16, 2009 By 8 Comments
>I’ve got the new Dan Brown (audiobook edition) for our flight this weekend to meet the grandchild. Can’t wait for either! Child_lit has been discussing how books perceived as page turners (like The Hunger Games) don’t get the respect they should, but I figure there’s page-turners and then there’s page-browsers–James Patterson, I’m looking at you. [...]
>Go west, young man, WEST!
December 17, 2008 By 29 Comments
>Childlit has been debating historical accuracy in fiction–what’s dramatic license and what’s a betrayal, basically. It makes me think of the many romances of stage, screen and text where Elizabeth R and Mary, Queen of Scots excitingly rail at each other, when in real life they never met. It also makes me remember when Elizabeth [...]
>(Un)block that metaphor!
November 24, 2008 By 20 Comments
>”We have turned off the spigot, but we have a very robust pipeline”–Houghton Mifflin Harcourt spokesman Josef Blumenfeld, explaining the company’s rationale for ordering its editors to stop acquiring manuscripts. No, Joe, what you have turned off is the water supply, rendering both the pipeline AND spigot irrelevant.
>I love them
August 19, 2008 By 3 Comments
>Semicolons, that is. I am less taken with apostrophe-s, but that’s what Chicago tells us to do, along with B.C.E., usage of which just makes me feel old if still A.D. (.) Apropos of nothing, I have drops in my eyes from an opthamology exam this morning and am thinking about an incredibly lame Betty [...]
>You’re not the boss of me,
April 15, 2008 By 4 Comments
>Its they’re misson!
March 29, 2008 By 6 Comments
>Getting the Shakes
April 24, 2007 By 14 Comments
>Child_Lit is currently enjoying one of those pearl-clutching reports about the abysmal state of American education, this one taking on colleges that do not require English majors to take a course in Shakespeare but allow them to study such horrors as queer theory and children’s literature. Let’s start with the sheer–and shrill–irrationality of comparing required [...]
