Monthly Archives: June 2011

The conference halo effect

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

There’s a phenomenon that I call the “conference halo effect”.  I think it happens to most of us, or at least I certainly hope so. The alternative would be unbearable. While I’m at the conference, I’m energized. This is in … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to miss New Orleans?

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

I didn’t hear live jazz playing in New Orleans on this trip until Tuesday morning. The playback in my mind is of jazz spilling out of every open doorway in the French Quarter, usually accompanied by a street corner barker … Continue reading →

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Quarter Square

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

I picked up Quarter Square by David Bridger, because it looked like one of those books where the hero steps through a hidden door into a secret world that borders the world we know. I like those kind of books. … Continue reading →

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Opening day at ALA

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

No matter where it is the American Library Association conference always feels like librarian’s old home week. All the people look vaguely familiar, convention centers all look alike, and even the signs are pretty much the same from one year to … Continue reading →

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NPR and the Top 100 SF/F

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

If I didn’t already love NPR, I would now. But I’ve sat in the car too many times laughing myself silly at the Car Talk brothers not to love NPR. However, they just gave me a whole new reason to … Continue reading →

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Goddess with a Blade

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

Vampire politics and sex. If that had been the sum total of Goddess with a Blade, Lauren Dane‘s latest book from Carina Press, it would still have been a fun read. But the story turned out to be a bit … Continue reading →

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Some of my first loves were vampires

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

Edward Cullen was certainly not the first sexy vampire–if he even makes the list at all. I still remember reading Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for the very first time.  I was in my college dorm room.  I remember … Continue reading →

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