Everything you need to know about life, you learn from Jane Austen - a feature in the Huffington Post. Including quotes from Pride and Prejudice ("Humiliation is the fastest way of growing up.") and Emma ("Listening to people's stories is the nicest thing you can do for them."), I did smile - wryly - at the chosen quotes. The movie for Ender's Game (announced last year) is going to start shooting early next year. However, they are planning on converting it to a youth-oriented franchise. Uh-oh...
...and another uh-oh moment: Superman has renounced his American citizenship to be a citizen of the world. Truth, justice and the American way - will that morph to truth, justice or the American Way? Sorry! Couldn't resist...
A link which I re-discovered recently (it's an old old link), while cleaning up my bookmarks: Khol decides to prove Steve Jobs wrong, by reading more than a book a month. Fair enough, but - since then, the iPad's come out, and the considering that iBooks is an integral part of it.... Don't get me wrong, I am a big Apple-o-phile (or Mac-addict), but this did surprise me, as I'd completely forgotten the way Big Steve dismissed the Kindle/e-reading.
Jamie Lee Wallace discusses the ten ways journaling makes one a better writer. Have you ever kept a journal? Do you think it makes you a better writer?! I maintained my journal for about twelve years (since I was ten), but I barely write anymore. I need to return to it.
And finally, read this article at the Harvard Crimson that I can so relate to, because honestly - I could have written it! I've always said that it's because of mum that I'm into reading, and she's the reason why I love books. However, when I was about fifteen, our literary worlds took different paths, and now, she and I read very different books. She still hasn't forgiven me for recommending Never Let Me Go, and I haven't forgiven her for singing high praises of The Kite Runner. Of course, there will be times when both of us will reach for the same Nabokov or the same book by Rohinton Mistry, but... How about you? Have you ever felt the same way?
