Scott's Reading List

To be a sparkly vampire, or not to be a sparkly vampire

To quote Amanda Hocking:

For me Twilight is my Romeo and Juliet.  I never cared for Shakespeare so Twilight is a new adaptation to geek out on.

Hocking is a fabulously successful author, so she's doing something right. But not caring for Shakespeare? That's just wrong.

No time to read

In the Land of the Non-Reader Jonathan Gourlay writes about going cold-turkey with reading: "I must have some free time. Perhaps the “I don’t have time to read” line is just a cover. A way that people excuse themselves from the uncomfortable truth that they do, in fact, have time but that they would rather do something other than read with that time (such as pretending to be a wood-elf)."

For awhile I stopped reading because I thought I didn't have any time for it. Turns out I did have plenty of time to read, I just spent it watching Murder, She Wrote. Now I just read a novel while watching Jessica Fletcher outwit some criminal.

Bookshelf Porn

Bookshelf Porn: For all your bookshelf drooling needs.

(Via Drawn.)