Literature
Hay Festival to award Best Tweet
A clever move to keep literature relevant to the younger generations, or the destruction of the very intellectual fabric of our society? Call it what you will, but a new competition at this year’s Hay Festival, traditionally a gathering of the world’s best literary minds, is to determine the most beautiful tweet ever written.
The contest… »
an interview with a shampire
INTERESTING EXCERPTS:
… It’s been a while since I have posted anything. This time I have with me a very special person. He is a shampire. Yes, a shampire, it is not a typo. Let’s get on with the interview so that we find out more about what/who this person/thing is…
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Me: LOL! It is not a… »
Shutting down…
… 3… 2… 1…0… believe me, this has now become bigger than either me or you or any other individual. It’s now a matter for the government and the society at large. May Allah save those whom He wills. Amen.
PS: The art site will continue to function daily… or at least until such time I… »
Cognitive Dissonance or Cognitive Disco
Share your views on what you personally think is the most catchy or culturally iconic phrase(s) from the Maldivian Blogosphere during the first six months of this… »
This time, Church won’t demonize “Da Vinci Code” follow-up “Angels and Demons”
LOS ANGELES — Controversy, if nothing else, sells newspapers and movie tickets.
It worked with Ron Howard’s first film adaptation of a Dan Brown novel, 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code,” and Hollywood is hoping it will work again for their second collaboration, “Angels and Demons,” which opened nationwide yesterday.
Maybe, maybe not. But either way, in Round… »
Angelina Jolie as Kay Scarpetta
Ever since The Three Investigators from my teens, I have been a fan of detective novels. But as things usually happen in our consumerist, capitalist, populist world, I became more and more disappointed after having read a string of “formulaic” detective novels and gave up finding good ones on my own unless a close friend… »
Three books better than “Twilight”
Everyone and their (12-year-old?) sparkly niece seems to be in love with the Twilight series.
My point is that there were numerous, well-written novels about vampires prior to the outbreak of the sparkling ones. From this list, I will mention three of my favorites: Read more from Realbook.com
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I’ve read The Vampire Diaries, They Thirst, and seen… »
On Twitter
- @naafix Actually suppressing may not b good idea. We may need 2 'recognise' chemical 'composition' of emotions while enjoying the feeling :)
- @naafix true... i think suppressing emotion (without losing humanity) can help us stay mentally strong... emotions are for the weak...
- @naafix what's so hard about breaking up, i wonder...
