Archive | April, 2008

29 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

A twelve-year-old and Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen of the Road

A’s in the throes of TAKS testing this week and needed to bring a book to school for when he finished early. For those of you not in Texas, TAKS is the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. While I’m not against standardized tests per se, the emphasis put on these tests and the process [...]

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27 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Nebula — Awards Banquet

The awards are in and the winners are: Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union , Michael Chabon Novella: Fountain of Age, Nancy Kress Novelette: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, Ted Chiang Short Story: Always, Karen Joy Fowler Script: Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro Andre Norton Award: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling Michael [...]

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26 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Nebulas — Day One

Well that was fun. The first night of the Nebulas was the mass autographing where everyone roamed around and greeted old friends and there were plenty of rock stars for fans (and aren’t we all) to get autographs from and to ooh and aah over. The Tales from the Secret City authors mostly congregated at one [...]

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