‘The Literary’ Archives
Make your own popular supernatural romance!
The lovely crew that I usually go adventures with have a tendency to gravitate towards bookstores. This is not a tragedy for I gravitate to such places of literature too. However, as we made our rounds through Kinokuniya, such hilarity occurred for in the young adult section had an influx of a certain type of book. Thus, I have made a so called [...]
I’m not Blameless.
This is technically the books I've read in the past week but it's going to be of a more fangirl squee worthy discussion post because why not? Firstly, let's just do this: Talk Nerdy to Me by Vicki Lewis Thompson - Chic lit. Lots of technical nerdy engineering puns, a bit far fetched with all the sexy coincidences but the dialogue is pretty [...]
The Diary of An Unreasonable Man
There's a book talk coming up that seems to be organized by the Penguin Books Singapore at the Earshot Cafe! It's a book talk by Madhav Mathur, the author of The Diary of An Unreasonable Man in conversation with Deepika Shetty. The short details: Date: 14 May Time: 7pm Location: Earshot Cafe at The Arts House ( 1 Old Parliament [...]
Story Starter #2
Ok, I asked for starting sentences on Twitter if anyone wanted a random free short/micro fic. Here's 3. Maybe more if by the end of the day anyone else asks and I'll just edit them into this post! The sentences: "Oh no, there's too many of them!" by Arrch "Before engaging with selkie guys, it would be wise to know this:" by [...]
Story Starters exercise #1
Ok, this was on twitter. I got a starter sentence from @jolantru and suddenly wrote some thing to continue it before it hit 5pm. Here it is! I might do other story starters for fun like an exercise. The sentence was, "The book disintegrated in my hands. I cringed, dreading the feel of dead paper on skin." (more...)
Ghostly Pursuits Part 2/2 (or 3??)
Part 1 of the story here. Meanwhile, I think it ends at this part 2. I think. For now anyway it ends there. Unless for some reason I want to write the continuation or something. So let's go! (more...)
Ghostly Pursuits Part 1 of 2
Have a random story! Actually this was a submission for an online magazine but alas! It wasn't what they're looking for. I decided to post it up here instead. It was a last minute written thing so meh. I split the submission into 2 parts. Maybe I'll add another part since the ending for the whole story was actually pretty rushed. Have part 1 [...]
Book Exchange 2010!
It's the book exchange at the library again! Give a book. Get a book. The infinite book exchange. Give a book, get a book at the Book Exchange! Drop off your used books* at any Public Library from 10 to 23 April, 11.00am to 9.00pm and get a coupon for every book** accepted. Bring your coupon down to The Plaza, National Library Building, on [...]
A literature prize, Script Frenzy and 48 hours competition!
Howdy ya'll. It's that time of year again! The time where I go ahh that it's nearly the mid year and what have I done and what costumes am I gonna make? Oh right, well, cosplay season is coming soon but meanwhile, literary wise and competition wise we have... The Singapore Literature Prize Script Frenzy 48 Hours film competition 2010 [...]
Books I’ve read for the past week or so
Okay, onwards with the list, the books I've read so far for the past week or so: Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs Demon Chick by Marilyn Kaye The Spy Wore Silk by Andrea Pickens I actually have a comment on these books so I'll put them after the cut! You want to know their exact summaries, go check Amazon or [...]
