Archive for April, 2008

REVIEW: Blood Alone by Masayuki Takano (vol.4)

Apr 28th

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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Blood Alone by Masayuki Takano, vol­ume #4 in an ongo­ing series, rated for Older Teens (+13 and up), pub­lished by Infin­ity Stu­dios, Feb 2008 release, $10.95 US, that is cur­rently on back order at Ama​zon​.com but my local book­store had four copies on the shelf.
This is a series I’ve been avidly fol­low­ing. It’s a story about a young

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News: Internet and Copyright Law

Apr 28th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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I’m very inter­ested in the res­o­lu­tion of the JK Rowl­ing case as it does spot­light one the com­plex issues of “fair use” and copy­right law. It is inter­est­ing to note that JK Rowl­ing her­self admit­ted to using the Harry Pot­ter Lex­i­con and endorsed it on the ‘net but when the cre­ator of this web­site decided

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Author News: Stephenie Meyer the Queen of YA Fantasy?

Apr 28th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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So doth pro­claim Time mag­a­zine, who does a nice write up of the author. Meyer’s Twi­light series has sold 5.3 mil­lion copies in the US and pur­port­edly knocked down a Harry Pot­ter book on some best­selling lists. I’ve read all three of Meyer’s vam­pire series fea­tur­ing the hand­some vam­pire, Edward Cullen and his human girlfriend,

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Media: CNN is ridiculous

Apr 27th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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Yes, I said it. CNN did not need to show the Rev. Wright speech at the NAACP din­ner in Detroit over and OVER and OVER again. But then again, Rev. Wright gave his crit­ics what they wanted to see and poor Obama, prob­a­bly already have jour­nal­ists, camped out at his house and call­ing him for a quote.

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Author Watch: Lisa Valdez Updates Her Website

Apr 27th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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I am late to the party but Ms. Valdez web­site had been down and now I see it is back up and she has updated it with a bit of news. She promises to give read­ers an update about her sec­ond book, Patience, on April 30th so mark your cal­en­ders. Ok read­ers, what do you think? Will

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