Posted on October 23, 2008 by Sigrid Ellis
I read somewhere, once, an anecdote from a female author. Maybe it was Lois Bujold. Maybe it was Virginia Woolf. Maybe it was Barbara Kingsolver. I honestly don’t remember. Anyway. I remember this woman explaining that she wrote her first novel at the kitchen table, after the dinner dishes [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by Sigrid Ellis
Laurie, Alice, Nancy, Sidney.
The Girls Who Lived, to steal a probably trademarked phrase.
I re-watched Friday the 13th recently. Still a good film.
On a scale of 1-10, Halloween is a 9, Nightmare on Elm Street a 7, and Friday the 13th is an 8. (Scream, which is my favorite, is not really the same [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2008 by Sigrid Ellis
A few weeks back I saw the movie Death Race. I saw it in the theater, with my partner and her other partner. The movie was great fun — just what we expected in terms on auto-duels and grimy men and sexy women. We all liked it (one quibble about the second [...]
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