The Feminist Summer Reading List Last week, an interview with Senator Al Franken inspired a list of feminist fictional heroines in books and movies that sparked quite a debate. But it’s summer now, and lots of people are looking for good books to wade into while they relax, vacation, or take in some sun. We’ve compiled a list of good feminist reads from the members of Women Action and the Media (WAM!) Love This? Thanks for subscribing! Women of Color: Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell HooksColonize This! Feminist Fiction Writers/Playwrites (multiple works):Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Aimee BenderOctavia ButlerAngela CarterEdwidge DanticatUrsula Le GuinAudre LordeSuzan Lori-Parks Grace PaleyPhyllis Reynolds Naylor Wendy WassersteinJeannette WintersonVirginia Woolf Feminist Poetry:Ai Margaret AtwoodAnne Carson Sandra Cisneros Lucille CliftonAudre LordeGrace PaleyAdrienne Rich wikimedia commons
If you die in the game, you die in REAL LIFE - books mmorpg sciencefiction Help me find books (or other media) about people playing RPGs. I'm looking for books, movies, comics, what have you (but preferably books!) where a substantial part of the story focusses on people playing RPGs. To be more specific, I'm looking for variations on the 'it's the future and there's this total immersion MMORPG everyone's playing' theme. Ready Player One (book) The entire .hack// franchise (anime) Gamer (movie) Nonplayer (comic) Net Force Explorers (books) (does anyone else remember these? Are there any other notable examples I'm missing?
Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years Books The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. A famous author once said that novels are the best way for two human beings to connect with each other. I believe this, and I believe that people who do not find pleasure in words have never had the opportunity to read one of the great novels. The first introductions students often have to literature are stale century-old books that do not translate well to this new modern era. Music for Torching by A.M. First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their drunkenness to try and put things right again.” As the only woman on the list, A. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) Of course, Palahniuk had to be on this list. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (2000) The house is alive. The Road
i09 featured books 75 Books Every Writer Should Read Whether you want to make writing your career or just want to know how to improve your writing so that you can pass your college courses, there is plenty of reading material out there to help you get inspired and hone your skills. Here’s a collection of titles that will instruct you on just about every aspect of writing, from the basics of grammar to marketing your completed novel, with some incredibly helpful tips from well-known writers themselves as well. Writing Basics These books address things like structure, plot, descriptions and other basic elements of any story. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers: You can improve the quality of your writing by adding a mythical quality to them with advice and insight from this book. Advice from Authors Who better to give advice on writing than those who have made a name for themselves doing it? On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King: This is widely regarded as one of the best books for any aspiring author to read.
Kingpin.cc The Books That Changed Your Lives I have a feeling that many of these are favourite books rather than life-changing. Certainly I love "The Hitch-hikers Guide .. Jared Diamond's book is very interesting but hardly life-changing. In my opinion "2001: A Space Odyssey" had a huge effect on the way people perceive the benefits of science, undermining the positive attitude created by the Apollo program. "1984" had the biggest effect on me, changing my view of government, communication and words. I have read but cannot recall much of "Zen ..." but you have inspired me to pick it up again and the two Dawkins books are waiting on my "to be read" pile. io9 yyeeeaaahhhh: so, i get too many comics each week, nothing truly crazy, but I drop $25-$40 every wednesday, lots of marvel, lots of image. for some time now, the Walking Dead was the title that I would drop last, ie, if i was crazy broke and could get no other comic. love that book, and the last issue showed how crazy shit is gonna get in the next six months, so i'm pretty psyched. that all being said, Saga makes it look like a toy out of a gumball machine vs. a lego millenium falcon, or a tired, stale 99 cent store cookie to a perfect wedding cake that also sings. if you have ever been in love, get this book. if you have never been in love, get this book if you have ever had parents, ever been a parent, ever had sex or wanted to, ever enjoyed science fiction, like boobies, have wanted to cry whilst reading a comic or have ever wanted to get SUPER EXCITED about something, read this. it has fucking changed my life. it is hardcore and gushy and thrilling and thoughtful. that is all.
Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list. The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut. In May, Time.com posted a similar list, of 100 movies picked by our film critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. This one is chosen by me, Richard Lacayo, and my colleague Lev Grossman, whom we sometimes cite as proof that you don’t need to be named Richard to be hired as a critic at TIME, though apparently it helps. Just ask our theater critic, Richard Zoglin. For the books project, Grossman and I each began by drawing up inventories of our nominees. Even so, there are many titles we couldn’t fit here that we’re still anguishing over. This project, which got underway in January, was not just a reading effort. There were also first time discoveries. Lists like this one have two purposes.
50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library | zen habits Post written by Leo Babauta. I recently ran into a couple of reading lists (I’ll share them at the end) and realized that I LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them. So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I should make some notes before diving in. Another note: there are actually many more books listed here than 50 — a number of those listed are actually series of books, in a couple cases series that include 20 or more books. There are classics here, but there are cheap thrillers and popular fiction and even a few “kids” books. If you could fill your library with only 50 books, you could do much worse than choose these 50. Not in any order but just in the order they came to me: King Lear, by Shakespeare. Some other lists of books I’ve enjoyed recently:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985.[1] The foreword is by Michael Moorcock. Primarily the book comprises 100 short essays on the selected works, covered in order of publication, without any ranking. It is considered an important critical summary of the science fiction field.[2][3][4] Scope[edit] In the introduction Pringle offers the working definition, "Science fiction is a form of fantastic fiction which exploits the imaginative perspectives of modern science." Within fantastic fiction he distinguishes science fiction from "Supernatural Horror" and "Heroic Fantasy". In contrast, science fiction has a real world setting and "fantastic developments which are explicable in terms of the scientific world-view." The time period covered is approximately that for science fiction as a category of book publication, although the selected books were not all published in that category.[8]