Monthly Archives: July 2011

Alice in Wonderland

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Finally got around to watching the 2010 Alice in Wonderland, and the last third was… a disappointment. There are at least five people who could have turned out to be the Jabberwocky, some less logically than others, but all heartbreaking. When I saw Absalom going into his cocoon, I was sure we had a winner. But no… the Jabberwocky was just an anonymous ugly dragon. Alice was just the generic dragonslayer. I’m not saying we should have some fluffy ending where she’s taming the Jabberwocky instead of killing it, or something similarly vanilla, but a little more nuance. Or coherence. […]

The Angel Experiment (James Patterson) 1

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Maximum Ride: The Angel ExperimentJames Patterson Continuing with my YA reading… I got 54 pages into this book before I started skimming.The pros: Max, the Maximum of the title, is actually a girl. And it’s not a big deal, just slipped in detail by detail. The cons: "Yes, you, standing there leafing through these pages. Do not put this book down. I’m dead serious–your life could depend on it." Does that sound familiar? Like, 54-book series familiar? Even now, when I can laugh at the clunky writing of the Animorphs series, I never forget how heartbreaking they are. In comparison, this book seems […]

Scrivener

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I’ve had the Scrivener for Windows beta for a few months now, and this past month I really started using it. I’ve always been one of those bare-bones people who prefers to use Word instead of any fancy writing software. That still holds true for shorts, but I’ve turned back to one of my novel projects, and its scope exceeds the organizational capacity of Word. Scrivener’s true value became apparent once I started importing all my research files and images. Normally I feel guilty using multiple files for research; I label one "Geology" and then stuff several books worth of information into […]