Free e-books! YAY! Tor.com is giving away a bunch of e-books, but they’re only free through Sunday, July 27th. So crank up your download manager and go book shopping!

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MAN, I’ve got to update this more often. This month is kicking my ass, though; I’m taking a really awesome class on ethnicity and race in comics/graphic novels, but the reading is intense and I’ve got to write three papers in five weeks. Urk. Time for a media dump!
I’ve been to the [...]

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I love the Amelia Peabody mysteries. They play upon my love for strong female leads, Egyptology, romance, and a good mystery. I’ve had fun reading all of the books, but this one? Is probably my favorite since Crocodile on the Sandbank.
Yet another enemy is after the Peabody-Emersons, this time to discover the way to the [...]

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In a surprising bit of awesomeness, I WON SOMETHING! YAY! This is cool because I don’t think I’ve won anything awesome since those New Kids On The Block tickets when I was a kid. :D
I won a copy of Ann Aguirre’s Wanderlust, so keep your eyes peeled for a review!
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There’s no better way to start the morning off right than with some good linkage.
First up: Paperback Writer posts Skiffy Ten, ten links about writing science fiction.
I’m somewhat of a stilted writer. I get ideas, I think about said ideas, and then sometimes I write them down, but I hardly ever bring them to [...]

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I’m taking a summer class on multi-cultural comics, and that (along with a rather heated discussion in a children’s lit class last spring) got me thinking about labels for this particular form of media.
Do we call ‘em comics or graphic novels?
When I was first introduced to the concept of graphic novels, the term was used [...]

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