10 CommentsLit Bits, Volume 4
Big news in small bites:
Happiness really is relative. And inspiring.
It’s an avalanche of Da Vinci posers.
Lovers of children’s books place their bets.
Too tired to read? Listen to great literature for free.
Aw, literature is so cuuuute!
Lit nerds and computer geeks aren’t so different after all.
Finally! Armpit climbs out of the ‘Holes.’
Posh Spice sparks a literary debate.
Miss Snark will crush you. But you’ll like it.
Virgina Woolf’s earliest literary work discovered.
Narnia’s returning to the big screen.
Sharon Osbourne rocks the memoir.
Literally Wacky, Volume 2
This entry is for the fabulous Heather, who likes weird things.
Did you know…
In the 1631 publication of the bible, a printer accidentally omitted the word “not” from the seventh commandment, encouraging readers to commit adultery.
Writer D.H. Lawrence, well known for erotic novels such as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was a prude in real life and would only make love in the dark.
English poet Ben Johnson had his heel bone stolen by the Dean of Westminster when his grave was disturbed in 1849. It later turned up in a junkshop in 1938.
During the French Revolution the new French Constitution was bound …read more
Have You Read the Must-Reads?
The lovely Karine brought up a great idea: we should confess what we’ve read on the ‘must read books in 2006’ list,
and tell what we thought about them.
Here is the original entry, with Karine’s list.
The list, with my responses:
1. War and Peace: Could there be a more cliché suggestion for a must-read list? Yes, I read it. I didn’t hate it, though as far as the Russian greats go, I enjoy Dostoevsky and Gogol more than Tolstoy.
2. The Grapes of Wrath: I liked this one. I read it in high school, and after being exposed to …read more
Literally Wacky, Volume 1
Because let’s face it, who’s weirder and wackier than a writer? This will bring you all sorts of little-known literature facts that are…well, weird and wacky.
Lit Bits, Volume 2
It’s Newsday Tuesday! Enjoy these literature tidbits.
Laurence Sterne’s oddball novel, Tristram Shandy, has been made into a movie. So what if it’s unfilmable? Nothing can stop Hollywood from butchering great literature. I’m glad I wasn’t an author back then, though…what with all the digging up of your dead body and selling you for dissection.
Wonkette wrote a novel.
Hell yeah, SparkNotes is worthwhile. I send my students there all the time.
Ursula le Guin says that J.K. Rowling lacks originality and graciousness.
Ever wondered what inspired Kipling? One man thinks he knows.
Apparently, publishers suck at math. And don’t really know much about their field.
I …read more
Lit Triv, Volume One: Answers
Here are the answers for our first volume of Lit Triv! Good job… no fair peeking until you’ve at least tried to guess!
And if there’s a book on the list you haven’t read…tsktsk! Get crackin’!