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The World of a Word Nerd

The World of a Word Nerd

  1. In Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger Emily is just as strange as before, only now there is two of her! After moving to the town of Silifordville, Emily comes up with a master prank of duplicating all of the residents. However, her plan backfires when she accidentally duplicates herself while testing out her duplicating machine. At first having a twin sister doesn’t seem so bad. Emily’s “OtherMe” is able to help her accomplish scientific tasks and plan a new ultimate prank twice as fast. However, she soon realizes that “OtherMe” isn’t actually a copy of her after all. Instead, her traits have been split in half between two people. If Emily ever wants to go back to feeling like her old, normal self she must find a way to rejoin with “OtherMe” and make her two halves one whole person again. Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger raises important questions about science and the dangers of cloning. At times it seems like a modern day take on Frankenstein. It also echoes an important lesson to young readers that they are unique and every part of them is important, even their flaws. Both our positive and negative traits make us who we are. To omit one or all of our traits is to omit who we are as a person. 

    In Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger Emily is just as strange as before, only now there is two of her! After moving to the town of Silifordville, Emily comes up with a master prank of duplicating all of the residents. However, her plan backfires when she accidentally duplicates herself while testing out her duplicating machine. At first having a twin sister doesn’t seem so bad. Emily’s “OtherMe” is able to help her accomplish scientific tasks and plan a new ultimate prank twice as fast. However, she soon realizes that “OtherMe” isn’t actually a copy of her after all. Instead, her traits have been split in half between two people. If Emily ever wants to go back to feeling like her old, normal self she must find a way to rejoin with “OtherMe” and make her two halves one whole person again.

    Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger raises important questions about science and the dangers of cloning. At times it seems like a modern day take on Frankenstein. It also echoes an important lesson to young readers that they are unique and every part of them is important, even their flaws. Both our positive and negative traits make us who we are. To omit one or all of our traits is to omit who we are as a person. 

  2. Hey everyone! Alma Katsu, author of the Taker Triology is going to be giving away some copies of her new book, The Reckoning.  To enter all you have to do is send an e-mail to contest@almakatsu.com . She said she’d ship anywhere! Bonus: You can earn EXTRA entries! How? Post aboutTHE RECKONINGon your blog, Facebook wall, or on Twitter or Pinterest and send me the web address (URL). Post a review ofTHE RECKONINGon Goodreads, Amazon, BN.com, Shelfari, LibraryThing and send me a link or a screen shot. Post aboutTHE RECKONINGor The Taker Trilogy on a book forum that you frequent and send a screen shot of your post. Send a photo of you holding your copy ofTHE RECKONING(I will repost on Facebook so please be cool with that.) Have a friend write to the address below to join the mailing list and mention your name, and you’ll get five entries to the giveaway. (To be clear: you get five entries in your name every time a friend joins the mailing list and says you sent her. Your friend will also be entered in the giveaway.) If you guys would be so kind as to join the mailing list and say that I referred you I would really appreciate it. My name is Kimberly Erskine.  Thank you so much and good luck to everyone that enters!

    Hey everyone! Alma Katsu, author of the Taker Triology is going to be giving away some copies of her new book, The Reckoning. 


    To enter all you have to do is send an e-mail to contest@almakatsu.com . She said she’d ship anywhere!

    Bonus: You can earn EXTRA entries!

    How?

    1. Post aboutTHE RECKONINGon your blog, Facebook wall, or on Twitter or Pinterest and send me the web address (URL).
    2. Post a review ofTHE RECKONINGon Goodreads, Amazon, BN.com, Shelfari, LibraryThing and send me a link or a screen shot.
    3. Post aboutTHE RECKONINGor The Taker Trilogy on a book forum that you frequent and send a screen shot of your post.
    4. Send a photo of you holding your copy ofTHE RECKONING(I will repost on Facebook so please be cool with that.)
    5. Have a friend write to the address below to join the mailing list and mention your name, and you’ll get five entries to the giveaway. (To be clear: you get five entries in your name every time a friend joins the mailing list and says you sent her. Your friend will also be entered in the giveaway.)

    If you guys would be so kind as to join the mailing list and say that I referred you I would really appreciate it. My name is Kimberly Erskine. 

    Thank you so much and good luck to everyone that enters!

  3. Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson!

    Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson!

  4. Happy Birthday, Raymond Carver!

    Happy Birthday, Raymond Carver!

  5. Wear Your Agenda With Wrist-Watch Post-It Notes

  6. Infect Your Home With Flesh Eating Monster Zombie Gnomes (My first Article for Bit Rebels)

  8. At the “old” age of 69, Nora Ephron doesn’t remember much. She doesn’t remember the name of that Jeremy Irons movie. She remembers meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, but can’t remember a thing about her. She knows that she was at a huge Beatles concert back in the day, but she doesn’t remember a thing about the concert. She also doesn’t remember your name, of if she even should know your name. But Ephron is far from being senile. She remembers her parent’s alcoholism and the way her dad seemingly neglected her as a child. She remembers the agreement that she made with her sisters to split all future inheritances evenly, and she remembers how her sister, Hallie, broke the agreement (she still doesn’t like Hallie very much…).  Ephron remembers back when things were more simple or fun. She remembers ordering her movie tickets ahead of time and using her credit card to print them out. She remembers writing letters by hand and she remembers when E-mail used to be fun (back when she actually enjoyed it and it didn’t send her hundreds of emails a day). She remembers funny, light-hearted experiences like having a meatloaf named after her, only to have it become a flop and eventually fall off of the menu. Ephron may be 69 and may soon be meeting the grim reaper, but she still has a lot of memories to share and continue making. Her memoir is full of sad memories, funny memories, and the realization that yes, she is getting old, but she still has many years left to wake up to waffles for breakfast and a mid-afternoon walk with her kids as she attempts to avoid the email that constantly floods her inbox. 

    At the “old” age of 69, Nora Ephron doesn’t remember much. She doesn’t remember the name of that Jeremy Irons movie. She remembers meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, but can’t remember a thing about her. She knows that she was at a huge Beatles concert back in the day, but she doesn’t remember a thing about the concert. She also doesn’t remember your name, of if she even should know your name.

    But Ephron is far from being senile. She remembers her parent’s alcoholism and the way her dad seemingly neglected her as a child. She remembers the agreement that she made with her sisters to split all future inheritances evenly, and she remembers how her sister, Hallie, broke the agreement (she still doesn’t like Hallie very much…). 

    Ephron remembers back when things were more simple or fun. She remembers ordering her movie tickets ahead of time and using her credit card to print them out. She remembers writing letters by hand and she remembers when E-mail used to be fun (back when she actually enjoyed it and it didn’t send her hundreds of emails a day). She remembers funny, light-hearted experiences like having a meatloaf named after her, only to have it become a flop and eventually fall off of the menu.

    Ephron may be 69 and may soon be meeting the grim reaper, but she still has a lot of memories to share and continue making. Her memoir is full of sad memories, funny memories, and the realization that yes, she is getting old, but she still has many years left to wake up to waffles for breakfast and a mid-afternoon walk with her kids as she attempts to avoid the email that constantly floods her inbox. 

  9. EW Writer, Stephan Lee, Visualizes Concept for Reality Show About Writing

    I have actually always thought about what it would be like if a network made a television show about people writing a novel, too.  I’m not sure which I’d be more excited to do, watch it or participate as a contestant. Lee’s visualization of it sounds perfect. It would have many chances to show high drama and emotion like many of today’s top rated reality shows and it would also offer audience members a taste of something new and different. Many people are unaware of just how much hard work, dedication, and frustration goes into writing (except of course those that actually do it) and would probably be amazed to watch it. I think it would be hard to talk a network into producing a show like this and it may get off to a slow start, but after a few episodes I think it would have strong potential to create a word-of-mouth based following and become rather addicting. 

  10. Top 100 Children's Books of All Time

    How many have you read? I think I’ve read about 40 of them. My favorites are Where the Wild Things Are; The Giving Tree, all of the Dr. Seuss books; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Stellaluna; Strega Nona, Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; The True Story of the Three Little Pigs; The Rainbow Fish; The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; The Three Little Wolves and the Big, Bad, Pig; Miss Nelson is Missing; and George and Martha. I remember reading a lot of these books as a kid in elementary school and going to the school library and checking them out. They were great books that I still enjoy to this day. What were your favorite childhood books from the list?

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