Thursday, 5. November 2009, 21:03:42
Michal Ajvaz, fantasy, science fiction
My favourite Czech writer made it to Amazon Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Top Ten. His novel The Other Town (Druhé město) is number six in this Top 10. The labyrinthine story of the magical other side of Prague is Ajvaz's (pronounced EYE-vuz) first book translated into English. Highly recommended, especially for the fans of J. L. Borges.
Michal Ajvaz - The Other City (Eastern European Literature), paperback, 148 pages. Translated by Gerald Turner. Dalkey Archive Press (June/July) 2009. ISBN 978-1564784916. Amazon.com US$ 11.86, Amazon.co.uk £ 10.99, Amazon.ca CDN$ 11.02.
[Other books by MA: Druhé město (1993), Tyrkysový orel (1997), Cesta na jih]
Saturday, 19. September 2009, 18:01:56
Bookworm, online fiction, ReadPrint
I found two great sites recently. Bookworm (bookworm.oreilly.com or m.bookworm.oreilly.com) is an online epub ebooks viewer. You can upload your selection of ebooks and then read them any time you like.
The other site is ReadPrint (www.readprint.com) which has many novels, short stories and quotations by 355 authors, you can read them online even utilizing your mobile phone with Opera mini.
Both sites are recommended for any book addict.
Another source of online literature is Literature Network (www.online-literature.com).
The best sources of well-formatted epub ebooks are gutenberg.org and www.feedbooks.com.
Sunday, 6. September 2009, 22:39:37
poll, happy
If you are happy please take part in my poll. If you are not happy now please take part in my poll too. And if you don't know that's the reason for taking part in my poll. "Let's do it, let's fall in love." (Cole Porter)
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 23:56:15
Bradley Denton, Buddy Holly, SF, science fiction
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, this long time out-of-print, award-winning, amazing and very funny SF novel by Bradley Denton (see the Links for the free download plus a link to Bradley Denton's site) is currently being made into an independent moving picture and its release is scheduled for 2010.
Saturday, 29. August 2009, 22:49:14
Shaw, Lethe, Singer
Once upon a time I read a short story collection The Bet on the Dead Jockey by Irwin Shaw. One of the stories is about an aging man who goes to work every day. One day he realizes that he can't find his way back home. There's a similar story by Isaac Bashevis Singer - it appeared in The New Yorker years ago, but, as you may have guessed, I've forgotten its title. Oh boy, I keep forgetting the most elementary words, names... The sunny shores of the River of Forgetting are getting closer and closer.
Monday, 24. August 2009, 14:33:12
Aimee Mann, Save Me, Magnolia
Yesterday I found that Save Me written and performed by Aimee Mann is not on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack I'd always thought but on Magnolia OST (1999). Both the film and music are exceptional.
Sunday, 12. July 2009, 07:07:11
Soundgarden, Black Hole Sun
"Black Hole Sun won't you come and wash away the rain...
Black Hole Sun won't you come, won't you come...?"
Saturday, 27. June 2009, 22:05:57
Frank Zappa, PlanetZappa, music, internet radio
I used to listen to the PlanetZappa web radios on my RadioBee. But the last 2 months or so this radio can't be tuned in. And I'm truly missing the daily dose of Frank Zappa amazing music.
Do you happen to know if there's any other web radio playing 24/7 Frank Zappa stuff in mp3? I would appeciate that. Thanks.
Today (29 Oct, 2009) I learned, that GeoCities, the seat of F. Zappa internet radio(s), were "dropped" by Yahoo. That means that waiting for a Zappa web radio will be much longer than I ever thought. Alas.
Saturday, 30. May 2009, 17:53:52
Joni Mitchell
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone...
Friday, 6. February 2009, 06:09:49
today
It's Blue bear's birthday today.
Happy birthday to me:)!
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