This is your brain on fiction
My three and a half year old daughter is obsessed with astronauts. She spent more than two hours yesterday playing with her toy astronauts: having the moon rover wheel over to the lunar lander for...
View ArticleIt’s Complicated…
A few nights ago, my husband and I watched It’s Complicated. He had a cold, and I was recovering from food poisoning, so we were looking for something light. We figured that the cast would be worth...
View ArticleFairy Tale Logic
My daughter has recently noticed that many of her friends have been watching Disney movies for some time, and so lately we have picked up both Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. We’ve probably watched...
View ArticleSpeculative Fiction
Over the past two years, I have been honing my thoughts about fiction. And I just received some help from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett in that regard: I have (finally) read Good Omens. (Thank...
View ArticleEnough Trouble for a Lifetime
Yesterday, it was revealed that J.K. Rowling now regrets that Hermione ended up with Ron, and feels that Hermione and Harry would have been the better match. This naturally set the whole Hogwarts fan...
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