Title: The Grand Sophy Author: Georgette Heyer Genre: Fiction – Regency Publication Date: 1950 Sophia Stanton-Lacy has arrived at her Aunt Ombersley’s home just in time. Her cousins are in a tangle: Charles is engaged to a hoity-toity snot, Cecilia is in love with a poet, and Hubert is acting strangely, even for him. Sophy…
Tag: humor
“Everyone can remember where they were when the BookWorld was remade.”
Title: One of Our Thursdays is Missing Author: Jasper Fforde Genre: Fiction – Fantasy Publication Date: 2010 (Europe release) Thursday5 is stressed. Readership is almost nonexistent, her Designated Love Interest turns out to be a criminal, an unpublished book crashes in her genre, and to top it off, the real Thursday has disappeared. There is…
Notable Quotables: Wit
(Notable Quotables is a meme originally brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) I’ve always loved intelligent humor, especially puns. Low-brow humor just isn’t my thing, which explains why I dislike most films starring people like Jack Black,…
Simon’s Cat: Storytelling, One “Meow!” at a Time
It all started with a cat and his quest for breakfast: All British artist Simon Tofield wanted to do was teach himself Flash animation; several years later, an artistic exercise has spawned two books and 11 videos — the latter of which have been viewed over 90 million times on YouTube. I love storytelling like…
Now Even Books Have Trailers! [Bonus videos]
Isn’t it amazing that you can be going merrily on through life with no idea that you’re missing out on something totally awesome, until a serendipitous occurrence shows you something new and totally cool? That’s how I felt a couple of weeks ago when I saw my first book trailer. Yep, that’s right: they make…