Good morning, afternoon, and evening to you, word readers- Today is National Smile Day, so SGS is taking a look at the geeky things that make us smile; favorite movies, television shows, books and games are discussed. You can see how dated my preferences are! Featuring Gene Wilder, me missing the point, and Robert Pattenson’s English accent!
Taming my TBR: Part 05
I’m back with another attempt to get my TBR list under control… or maybe it would be better to say I’m trying to keep it under three hundred titles at once. This week we take a look at birds, my old love neuroscience, how to not be a jerk, and some poetry inspired by space! How will it go? Not sure! Is there a good or bad outcome with taming my TBR? I don’t think so!
Favorite Opening Lines
Happy Tuesday, popcorn puffins, hope your day is treating you nicely and you’ve eaten something delicious. This TTT features my favorite opening lines, and you know what it taught me? Most opening lines are pretty mundane. And all those writing “rules” I’ve come across that tell you not to start with describing the weather or with your lead character waking? Yeah, people ignore that a lot.
Below the cut you’ll find opening lines by the likes of Tamsyn Muir and Martha Wells, and some old favorites like Karen Cushman and Francisca Lia Block. Hope you enjoy!
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Geek Pride
May 25 if Geek Pride day, and in celebration this Seriously Geeky Sunday takes a look at geeks in popular culture and our own personal geek story. We’ve come a long way from being defined as “a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.” Seriously, the etymology for this word is crazy.
Seriously Geeky Sundays are brought to you by Heather over at Just Geeking By, check it out and join the fun. Every week has interesting prompts, and the questions are quite unique.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I hopped on the feel good train for a quick little respite in the pages of this book. Told in an epistolary style by Mary Anne Shaffer and finished by her daughter Annie Barrows, this book tells the tale of Juliet Ashton, 33 and emerging with the rest of the world into a post WWII land. Through random chance, a man on the English island of Guernsey acquirers a book once belonging to her, and finds her name and address written within. What begins is a correspondence between Juliet and the people of Guernsey that will lead her away from home and into the arms of a small, tight-knit community that spent five years under Nazi occupation.
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Reasons Why I Love the Tortall Series
Happy Tuesday, Lord and Ladies of Blogland- this weeks TTT I look at ten reasons I love the Tortall Series by Tamora Pierce; soon to adapted by Lionsgate and Playground Entertainment. Mithros help us all, because this could be a travesty waiting to happen. Here’s ten things that are great about the series that could subsequently be messed up in some way or another by an adaptation. I mean how are they going to get the budget for some of the effects? And Playground Entertainment has only produced stage productions. *winces* We will see, I suppose.
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Food in Fiction
Heyo everybody, this weeks SGS is all about food. From the most decadent and delicious desserts to Soylent Green, food in fiction runs the gamut of mouth watering temptation to retch worthy disasters. Get ready for shwarma, reality defying cakes, chocolate, and of course, Kingdom Hearts. I wrote this post before breakfast, and let me tell you, it was hard to do on an empty stomach.
Seriously Geeky Sundays are brought to you by Heather over at Just Geeking By, check it out and join the fun. Every week has interesting prompts, and the questions are quite unique.
Warning: Spoilers for Soylent Green.
