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How Do You Unplug?: “Hamlet’s BlackBerry” and My Weekly Digital Sabbath
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Jana Riess
I heard a terrific NPR interview yesterday with William Powers, author of the new book Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. I can’t wait to read the book, because he’s diagnosing a problem I see in my own life: all of these time-saving methods of communication have…
There Be Witches in YA! A Review of “Beautiful Creatures”
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Jana Riess
You’ve probably noticed that I love YA and read far too much of it, but people find out about my passion and then they keep recommending novels. . . . Darn you, people! And darn you, Kevin Stanford, for recommending Beautiful Creatures, which kept me up late two nights running. Beautiful Creatures is set in…
Yes, Robert Pattinson, There Really Are Mormon Themes in “Twilight”
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Jana Riess
I hate to disagree with Robert Pattinson. He’s just so darn beautiful. But when His Hunkiness goes public with ignorant statements like the following, I have to beg to differ. And hope that he won’t crush my skull. “I think people make up all these Mormon references just so they can publish ‘Twilight’ articles in…
The Eclipse-d First Filler Novella of Stephenie Meyer: A Review of Bree Tanner
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Jana Riess
You’ve got your work cut out for you when you’re Stephenie Meyer. When you dare to write an in-between novella, the same people who criticized your doorstopping tomes of old now complain that you’re holding out on them by penning a 168-page glorified short story. The people who got angry that there was too much…
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