Twilight Zone's fanatic reader

Harold Bemis loves to read more than anything.  He can't focus at work because he's thinking about all the wonderful characters from David Copperfield.

His venomous wife refused to let him enjoy even a newspaper.

In one heartbreaking scene, she marks out his entire book of modern poetry.  There is a special hell for someone like that.

We can relate to just wanting more time, more quiet to get to that next book.  Lucky for us though, we don't have to live in the irony-doling world of the Twilight Zone.

Bitches in Bookstores

It's not often that my three of my favorite things ( ladies, rap music, books) combine in an amalgam of awesome, but this music video playing off a Jay Z and Kanye song does just that.
A Jeffrey Eugenides and a Goodreads reference are a part of a fun love song to literature.
The song loses steam towards the end and some of the "I'm so hard" stuff is overdone, but still kudos to La Shea Delaney and Annabelle Quezada for putting this beauty together.

Lao Wai Comics

Felix Gervais is a traveler and artist who has put together a collection of his fun, biting comics about China.  
Learn a little Mandarin, laugh and enjoy.
Read some of his Lao Wai comics here.

The Meme of the Moment

You know they'd make a writer one eventually...

As A Machine & Parts by Caleb J. Ross

Aqueous Books
December 15, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0984739929
100 pages






Caleb J. Ross has been published widely, both online and in print. He is the author of Charactered Pieces: Stories (OW Press), Stranger Will: A Novel (Otherworld Publications) and I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin: A Novel (Black Coffee Press). Visit his official page at calebjross.com.

the Hunger Games: What's the big deal anyway?

No doubt you know someone who read the Hunger Games series in a week and wants desperately to talk about it with you. But you only read adult books and serious adult books at that. Is this whole Battle Royale rip off worth your time? Yes indeed.


First off it won't take you but a few hours to finish each of the three books. The writing is designed to have you push forward toward the climax while salivating.

The Hunger Games is nothing else if not the ultimate page turner.

For fans hoping for the next Harry Potter, this isn't it. the writing is so transparent and shallow, if you slow down to read the actual prose at all, you'll be left with a sour taste in your mouth.

It's exciting and fun and not a deep experience at all. And it's likely the movies will be far better, so factor that in.

Old Books Perfume

Ever felt like you wanted your lover to smell like a used bookstore? Karl Lagerfeld has you covered. The fragrance master has designed a perfume that smells like books. Does smelling yellowing paperbacks on your lady's neck gets you excited? I know I've pressed my face into an open page and inhaled in ecstasy. I imagine adding a woman to the mix could only improve things.