Reading Lists: Another 100 Greatest?

Posted by mimi on Jul 27, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Not to be outdone by their rivals at Time (see my post on their list here), the good folks at Newsweek have compiled what they call their “meta-list” of the Top 100 Books, using rankings from lists as diverse as the New York Public Library System, the Modern Library, and Oprah to determine their choices. This list was interesting because it included nonfiction, poetry, and drama in...
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#writerfail Redux

Posted by mimi on Jul 2, 2009 in dish | 2 comments For all I adore technology, I’m not a first adopter. It took a couple of years before I finally bought a cell phone, and I was practically the last person I knew to start texting. Although I belong to several email loops, I was a Facebook holdout until recently. I’m still on the fence about Twitter. After reading Jennifer Weiner’s post about Alice Hoffman and how not to use...
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Reading Lists: 100 Greatest?

Posted by mimi on Jun 27, 2009 in dish | 1 comment Every once in a while, something pops up that just demands to be blogged. I ran across this listing of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels published since 1923. Lists like this are always up for debate, but I thought it would be interesting to see how I fared. Of their 100 choices, I’ve read these:All the King’s Men – Robert Penn WarrenAnimal Farm –...
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Off to the Races

Posted by mimi on Jun 18, 2009 in dish | 1 comment The reworked idea for The Five Step Plan and the proposal for Life After Little League are now on their way to Dream Agent. Let’s hope she’s happier with the rework–if she is, I can salvage some main story elements. If not, we’re talking total rebuild (which I’m not wanting to do, but…). Now I’m back to the YA ideas. Who knew designing an entire...
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