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Gavin Grant and Kelly Link report the death of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series.

http://lcrw.net/wordpress/?p=768#comments

Damn.

Came to me from my friends list: kathryn_ironic  via fledgist

Bold the ones you've read,
strike the ones you hated,
italicize the ones you couldn't get through.
Asterisks for the ones you loved - more asterisks, more love.
Use a + to indicate the ones you own. Use a - to indicate ones you used to own, but no longer have.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien +
2. The ( Read more... )

Over on LibraryThing, user MMcM linked to this quiz ( Read more... )

1930s Marital Scale:   117

As a 1930s husband, I am:    Very Superior

From: http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/

from LJer
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According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. (Presumably, the six that were assigned in school.)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ

5) Complain about the list

1 Pride and ( Read more... )

Your result for The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test...
Eeyore


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This young woman, in Maxfield Parrish's "Morning"
(http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/mfp08lg.jpg)


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I started reading science fiction as a kid, 'way back in the '60s, so I absorbed the Party Line of the day, the one that was promulgated back during the 'New Wave' Wars: that 'science fiction' was but a subset of the larger universe of 'speculative fiction'.

'Speculative Fiction' (known to its friends as 'SF') included 'science fiction', but also ( Read more... )

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