Literally Blogging

  The greatest story evertold is the Nativity or the Birth of Jesus Christ. Where can you find a story with a prequel since the dawn of humanity and an upcoming sequel at the end of time? Plus, the Nativity has spawned thousands of other stories found in the lives of saints. The story is itself is pure genious. This story has angels, a pure virgin giving birth, a God-man, a glorious star, an evil king, three wise men, shepherds, and sheep to boot!. With a cast this great, you can help but sense that this drama will be great …read more

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  I know that the spirit of Christmas is all about giving to others. However, I feel that we have forgotten that this is season is all about receiving good things (gifts) as well. Below are two books I wish to find under my Christmas tree. Generous souls are free to ship these books to me.

The Cinema of George Lucas (Hardcover)
by Marcus Hearn, Ron Howard

   Who doesn’t love Georgie? He is the father of pop cinema. His influence has made being a geek/nerd actually cool to point that we often refer to his movies in our everyday language. My …read more

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 Mea Culpa! I am really super duper gazillion times sorry for deleting the posts of the other authors. My punk side took over and it wanted the blog to be mine and mine only!Ha Ha Ha! After I went on a delete frenzy, my conscience returned and I realized what a big boo-boo I did. I hope that my great literally-blogging ancestors have the heart to forgive me . I truly appreciate the road you have paved for this site and I hope to return the favour by continuing the tradition of posting buzz worthy posts. See yah around…
 

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Roughcut) by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
More Information: www.freakanomics.com
      With my head always stuck in the clouds, I have always been a fan of fiction. It was brought about my fear of treading into the territory of real world books and especially the realm of numbers. In addition, it didn’t help that my college text book branded with the disability of innumeracy or being mathematically challenged because I was a marketing communication student. However, one day I lost my way in the bookstore and found my self in the …read more

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Greetings Readers!
I am Vincent from the humble islands called the Philippines. I will be taking over Literally Blogging from now on, so take it or leave it My vision for Literally Blogging is to write short reviews on non-fiction and fiction books, pay homage to certain authors, interview writers, have posts on famous quotations and genres, and try to make you guys learn something in the end while goofing off. I hope I meet your standards of what a Literature blog should be and could be. I am guessing this can be done as long I receive a …read more

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Okay, a question for readers and writers, and writers who are readers, and most of all readers who want to be writers:
What book or books do you wish you had written? If you could travel back in time and steal the manuscript out of someone’s outgoing mail and send to an agent with your name on it, what would it be?
I’ll start this off with two books that I love on their own merits but also secretly resent the authors a little for being the ones who wrote them.
The first is Watership Down, by Richard Adams. It was …read more

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I was twelve years old when I first fell in love, the quick-burning, star-dazzled kind that hits you suddenly and leaves you dizzy.
It was with a boy I saw after school, a boy who leaned against the railing with its peeling brown paint, unaware of the after-school shrieks and grinding gears of school buses all around him, his eyes never leaving the book he held. I couldn’t see what book it was, but it was a thick book, the long kind with no pictures that only real readers would read.

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Well, friends, I’ve done it. I’ve uncovered another clue in our latest literary mystery. I saw the man reading on his porch again: same spot in the book, naturally. So I went home to get my digital camera, hoping to snap his picture and post it here, in case any of our FBI agent readers may recognize him.
Perhaps that would be unethical or even illegal, but really, what do laws matter in the pursuit of truth and justice? Alas, he wasn’t there when I returned. But his book was. Knowing that the identity of the tome could provide crucial evidence, …read more

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For my inaugural post (hi, I’m Rob), I thought I would roll up my sleeves and share a real nuts and bolts sort of link for those of you who, like myself, might be starting on the road to publication. If you’re already a published author, swell. We’re very proud of you. Now go away and leave us to our desperation.
Last summer, after beginning work on a memoir about my experiences raising an amazing and strange little girl with a rare neurological disorder that keeps her from speaking, I began my search for an agent. I’d …read more

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One of my biggest regrets in childhood was that I did not have a governess. Yes, I read too many Victorian novels. But really, could I be blamed for turning out such a mess without that faithful role model to guide me with a firm yet kind hand? How could I ever be expected to learn to act like a lady?
If there’s one archetype that rules 19th century literature, it is the governess. She of the tight bun, grim dresses, and unadorned face. The woman so plain, and poor, and alone, that she should’ve been completely overlooked… yet she always …read more

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