Some of you may have noticed that I've switched over to wordpress. Please note that this will be my last post to amithaknight.livejournal.com and amithaknight.blogspot.com so please update your links/rss feeds or whatever.

In addition to critiquing each other's writing every other week, my critique group has a monthly (published) book discussion. We read MG to YA and all sorts of genres. Some of them we've loved and others....not so much. Right now I'm in the middle of a "not so much". I have read some RAVE reviews of this book (including one from a friend of mine) ( Read more... )

A notepad to write on in the shower! Cool! (via Inkygirl)

Here's a demonstration:

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Have you seen this list of Gossip Girl character Dan Humphrey's favorite books for 2009? I haven't read any of them, but I have read other books by a few of these authors.

(via bookshelvesofdoom -- man she finds some good stuff!)

And check out my guest post to Livia Blackburne's blog: http://blog.liviablackburne.com/2009/11/writing-lessons-from- ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was going to do this whole post about the best kid's books I read this year, but while I was going through my list on goodreads, I started to get confused about my star rating system. Then I thought, hmm...which books would I actually recommend as something worthwhile to read (five-star or not?). Here's they are, sorted by author's last ( Read more... )

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Syfy is airing a two-part modernized Alice of Wonderland movie this weekend. I never actually liked Alice in Wonderland that much (why do so many of my blog posts center around classics I didn't like? this seems wrong), not even the old Disney version, but this movie version could be interesting. Even my husband seemed interested which is a first ( Read more... )

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PoojaMakhijani.com has a great list online of YA books that depict South Asia and South Asian chacters. Head over there and check it out! She also has lists of picture books, folk/fairytales, and what she calls "crossover" books (not sure what that means, but the books look interesting nonetheless ( Read more... )

I love Project Runway. Drama + high fashion + catty fighting = Awesome. But probably the most fun part about this show is watching creative minds at work. But what lessons can a writer take away from this show?


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