Which One Should You Eat?
March 29, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under AUTHORS/BOOKS
Someone’s finally written a book that helps you pick between the foods at various restaurants and from all the choices at the grocery store that LOOK so great (and delicious), that is, until you read the nutrition label… But who has time to read and memorize hundreds of packages, just to get to the right ones for your needs? And what about food at restaurants, where you don’t get a nutrition break-down for each item so you’re eating ‘blind’?
The book’s called EAT THIS, NOT THAT!
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Harry Potter Book 7 – Split Personality?
March 13, 2008 by Spotlight-On WM
Filed under AUTHORS/BOOKS, MOVIES
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, aka Harry Potter Book 7, may get more screen justice than ORDER OF THE PHOENIX: David Heyman, producer, is expected to announce that rather than trying to chop the last huge book down to movie size, two movies will be made of HALLOWS to accommodate the entire last installment in the J. K. Rowling book series.
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DOCTOR WHO – Free eBooks Online
February 4, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under Doctor Who, TV SHOWS
BBC UK has re-released some early, hard to find, original series DOCTOR WHO books as free eBooks! Some can be downloaded as PDF and PDA compatible files, while others can be read on their site in chapters. Check out the titles that are available on eBook for free:
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ENDER’S GAME – It’s About Time…
January 31, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under GAMING, MOVIES
In August 1977, Orson Scott Card’s novelette ENDER’S GAME was published in ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT and it amazed the sci fi world with its tale of very young, extremely smart, children trained to play war games for an upcoming battle with an alien species called the Formics, a group who had already beaten Earth forces 70 years before, and who are now back to finish the job.
Now, finally, more than 30 years after the story was released and a host of expanded and sequel novels were published (XENOCIDE, SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, CHILDREN OF THE MIND, FIRST MEETINGS IN THE ENDERVERSE), director Wolfgang Petersen (TROY) is currently working on a film version of the book series with Card writing the screenplay. (Of course, the whole project has been in “development hell” for years, and no list of actors is attached yet, so no guarantees that it will make it for the 2008-2009 movie season, especially since Warner Brothers put it into “turnaround” but I’m keeping my fingers crossed…)
Orson Scott Card has also given Chair Entertainment Group the exclusive license to create games based on the Ender books. They plan to offer the games on all next-generation console, hand-held and PC platforms. With Card’s help, Chair Entertainment will begin development later this year on a game inspired by the Battle Room, the mainstay of ENDER’S GAME. The first version is expected for release via downloadable platforms.
In the meantime, we wait for a chance to train at Battle School to see for ourselves how we’d stack up against a bunch of precocious kids. (Can you say movie “tie-ins”?)
Talk About Lucky…
January 10, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
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We had been doing some “hunting of the wild book” this morning at a Vancouver library book sale as we are wont to do and decided to hit some of the local thrift stores, too. After going to 3 or 4 of our favorites, and feeling really tired (we had had to get up REALLY early to make the 1st sale), we were going to drive home early. But I had “little book voices” calling to me from over in Portland and wanted to go there before heading back. Mom was of the opinion we should go home and nap out. So we flipped a quarter for it and I won. As we were heading towards Oregon, I told Mom to check out the sky behind us. In front was clearing, but behind was a dark grey, almost black, sky. I was looking for rainbows, since it looked like heavy rain, saw none, so went back to watching where I was driving. We stopped at a favorite haunt or two in West Portland and were about to go our merry way when we heard there’d been 1, possibly 2, freak tornados where we’d just been in Vancouver. Talk about lucky! If we’d headed directly home instead of going south, we’d have driven right into at least one of them! Amazing how things sometimes work out. (Going to have to see about keeping that quarter – it appears to have predictive properties. LOL)
