Ah, numbers. They push our buttons, spur fights on Facebook, and help generate cool-looking charts that make us seem smarter than we are. Much trickier is extrapolating their meaning. Case in point: the chart you see here, created by novelist Nicola Griffith. Griffith looked at the winners… Continue Reading
If you watched last night’s Outlander, you saw a person being sexually, physically, and emotionally tortured by a madman. It was sad, it was scary, it was shocking. But only because the person being harmed was a man. I wanted to title… Continue Reading
Since his wife is writing a romance series, my husband gamely rented 50 Shades of Grey the other night, so he could “see what this is all about.” I didn’t have the heart to explain the different romance genres, and… Continue Reading
While in the toy section of Target, I saw a boxed set of Avengers characters. Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye–even the silver villain dude. No Scarlet Widow. Final straw? Meet the camel’s back. So of course, I went on Twitter to… Continue Reading