Nomad Patterns, Livia Marin
- How Indie Bookstores Can Add Value By Partnering With Authors. This is fantastic and I’ll reiterate what I want to see in indie bookstores: little cards that I buy with QR codes or other kinds of codes that don’t require a smartphone to interpret that take me to a page where I can download, in whatever format I want, an ebook. We have gift card technology, why can’t we have this?
- How to Trick Bloggers into Reading Your Book
- SFF in Conversation: R.J. Anderson on Diversity in Speculative Fiction
- One cover through time That terrifying Flowers in the Attic cover that makes it look like YA? Has been around since 2010. You’re welcome.
- The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
- Disembodying the past to preserve it
- Disability Tropes in Fiction
- Against a Twitter “report abuse” button
- Twitter abuse: What women-hating trolls really believe
- Panic mode – my proposal to curb Twitter abuse
- Why We Need To Respond To Online Harassment
- Against “Politeness” and a “Polite Society” (with tweets)
- Internet Toxic Shock Syndrome. I want to like this post more than I do. I think I can’t due to the overwhelming stench of “Those who can’t, criticize” all over it and you know what? Criticism and reviewing is a different skill set than creation and people who think it’s easy can go piss up a rope because doing it well is work.
- Where Is Comic-Con International’s Harassment Policy?
- Testimonials of a fragment of code
- Ladies (ad copy for one of Motorola’s phones)
- I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be ‘Nice’ Some ableist language, but this is mostly pretty good.
- On Heroes
- Breaking: Women Have Not Been Adequately Shamed During the Weiner Scandal and the NYT Is On It
- I Reject Your Low-Income Food Challenge Simulations
- Stranded by Sprawl
- Fast food strikes intensify in seven cities
- Silicon Valley’s Anti-Unionism and Class Warfare
- Microaggression and Management
- Hugo Schwyzer Quits The Internet
- This Charming Man
- NPR’s Scott Simon tweets vigil and death of mom in Chicago
- Predictable Ignorance: LitFic Nitwits Once Again Snigger at Romance
- SB Sarah eviscerates Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
- I choose to be fat
- Detroit, a Love Song
- Art piece installed at Joe Louis fist, quickly removed by city of Detroit To everyone who had to explain to their parents and grandparents the significance of this art piece: I salute you.
- Why you need to watch Spanish Snow White movie “Blancanieves” AT ONCE.
- Texts From J. Alfred Prufrock
- Ants are laying siege to the world’s chocolate supply
- Simple Does Not Equal Dumb, and Other Assorted Thoughts on Pacific Rim
- The Tet Zoo Guide to Pacific Rim
- Staring at Two Suns
- Amazing and completely logical explanation of Labyrinth.
Regular posting will resume next week with a review of/essay about Courtney Milan’s The Heiress Effect. I’m planning on two posts per week at this point: a review or essay and then linkspam on Fridays. I’m taking this as my inspiration.
Also, I’m looking for an invite to Medium–if anyone can hook me up, that would be awesome.
Am I the only one who was slightly bothered by the review of Big Girl Panties? I mean, it ends with how the heroine’s transformation inspired the reviewer to exercise, and for some reason I keep thinking that said inspiration somewhat condones the idea that the heroine is a better person now that she’s not fat, hence making her worthy of love and other positive feelings. Maybe I’m being too sensitive, but the end of the review rubbed me the wrong way. Not to mention that there’s a second, more positive review that also mentions how inspiring the heroine was (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/big-girl-panties-by-stephanie-evanovich). At least it wasn’t as bad as the review on Heroes and Heartbreakers.
@Brie: I was a bit bothered by that as well–it felt a little inspiration porny to me; my fat body is not here to motivate anyone to get their ass to the gym. And I’m pretending that the more positive review at SBTB doesn’t exist (I can’t read it; if I do, I will have a rage blackout on Twitter again and no one wants that).