bookshelves of doom

Should JKR write another Harry Potter?

Naomi Alderman and Frank Cottrell Boyce debate.

And...

...now I'm just going to hide at home tomorrow night.

Word to the wise:

The Spinach-Rice Casserole from the original Moosewood Cookbook is AWESOMELY GOOD.

I made a few minor changes -- used olive oil instead of butter (didn't measure, though), and used two 10 oz. boxes of frozen spinach because that's what I had on hand -- but basically, I made it as written.

Also, I have two crockpots going -- one with a pot roast, and one with baked beans. Excessive, possibly, but we seem to be settling into winter quite cheerfully! (Supposedly, there might be snow tonight...!)

Links while waiting...

...for Josh to finish yet another episode of Clone Wars: Season Two. Sigh.

• I'm embarrassed to admit that I scored 100% on this quiz.
• We're drinking this beer. Is good.
• NEED. THIS. BOOK.
• Even PBS has jumped on the zombie bandwagon.
• Book-to-Film Horror Movies available via Netflix Instant.

Oh, goody. Josh is done.

Now it's movie time:

 

Morning links.

Just a few things, as I'm all sleepy from staying up with Sherlock(WHICH OMG I LOVED IN EVERY WAY AND I LOVED MRS. HUDSON'S AFFECTION FOR SHERLOCK), and because I had to do some library school stuff this morning:

• Six sites to make your own comics.
• The Biblioracle is back! (Woo!)
• The endings to 100 scary movies in five minutes AND a roundup of 10 controversial horror movies.
• Variety breaks down the 10 Best Picture slots.
• Mo Willems linked to last year's roundup of Willems-inspired Halloween costumes and put the call out for pictures of this year's costumes.

Neil Gaiman's All Hallow's Read...

...now has a website.

He says that while it's skeletal (heh heh heh) at the moment, there'll be more there in time for next year.

57 years of author interviews available for free...

...at the Paris Review website.

From the 1982 interview with P.L. Travers:

I’ve always been interested in the Mother Goddess. Not long ago, a young person, whom I don’t know very well, sent a message to a mutual friend that said: “I’m an addict of Mary Poppins, and I want you to ask P. L. Travers if Mary Poppins is not really the Mother Goddess.” So, I sent back a message: “Well, I’ve only recently come to see that. She is either the Mother Goddess or one of her creatures—that is, if we’re going to look for mythological or fairy-tale origins of Mary Poppins.”

(via Nicola Griffith)

 

Library director steps down after getting flack for...

...teaching English to legal immigrants.

On her own time, mind you.

With a grant that she applied for and was awarded by the government. 

Color me flabbergasted.

10 Literary Halloween Costumes...

...at LitDrift.

As their inclusion of Scout's ham costume opens up the sub-category of Halloween costumes worn by literary characters, I'll add another.

#11: Georgia Nicolson's disastrous olive costume:

 

Speaking of, did you know that Louise Rennison has started a new series? I didn't know that she'd started a new series! Or that it stars Georgia's young cousin! Or that it's set at a school for the dramatic arts, and the main character is EVEN MORE DRAMATIC than Georgia! Or that the first title is called Withering Tights:

 

OR THAT IT DOESN'T PUB IN THE STATES UNTIL NEXT SUMMER. Ag.

A post in which Josh Christie...

...becomes my hero.

Because I couldn't even bring myself to MENTION the horror of the upcoming What to Expect When You're Expecting movie, let alone think of other possibilities.

Smartass Young Library Patron + Facebook = My Pain.

Okay, so some time back, I posted this old picture on Facebook (I'm the homely one with the darker hair. My sister is the one who looks happily sinister):

 
Tonight, I got a message that there was a new comment on it. When I saw WHO the comment was from, I knew there'd be trouble, but I had no idea that it would be QUITE so cutting:

"You even looked like a librarian when you were a kid."

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGH.

My husband? Is a jackass.

I just turned the computer monitor towards Josh, so he could witness this ridiculousity.

His response?

"Man, I want to work THERE."

Like I said: Jackass.

As it's too late to get the stuff together this year...

...I'd love to do this next Halloween.

A Halloween Tour...

...of Horror Writers' Graves.

Aw. I didn't know that HP Lovecraft's headstone was bought by fans. Which is nice.

Although also a little odd, since he was already included on his family's monument.

Lion Cub Swim Test.