Literally Blogging

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.

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It’s Lit Bits time again!

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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

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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’!

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Okay, time to wake up those brains after all that holiday loafing!
Below are some famous quotes/excerpts from well-known works of literature and/or authors. How well-read are you?
Give it a try, and post your answers in the Comments section. The winners get…respect and admiration!
1. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
2. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
3. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, …read more

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Is there any young lady out there who never read “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret?”

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So every Tuesday, I shall bring you Lit Bits, news and happenings from around the world of literature.

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Narnia vs. Hogwarts

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My strongest love affair with trash had to be the Sweet Valley High series.

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Every time a book aimed at kids displays any sort of darkness or unpleasantness, adults protest until their voices drown out the pleas of their children asking for the book.

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