Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • The Fussy Librarian

    My book, “My Splendid Concubine”, is being featured this Sunday, November 3, at The Fussy Librarian, a new website that offers personalized ebook recommendations. You choose from 30 genres and indicate preferences about content and then the computers work their magic. It’s pretty cool — check it out! www.TheFussyLibrarian.com

  • The Marvelous New World of Holmes and Watson

    Whoever thought of Dr. Watson as a woman—a Chinese-American woman at that—was a pure genius.

  • Freedom of expression

    Interesting post about freedom of expression in South Africa.

  • Social Security and Medicare’s impact on the national debt = ZERO!

    What is it that America’s elected Congress doesn’t want the American voter to know?

  • Who is [really] responsible for the U.S. federal government shutdown?

    Do you think the American tea party movement should be the tail that wags democracy?

  • Sod Murphy`s Law!

    More about Murphy’s law from a different perspective.

  • Watch out for Murphy’s Law when promoting a book

    Murphy’s Law says, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,” and it did more than once.

  • An Alternative to a School Suspension or Expulsion

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I walked to town this morning to see The Family, a film with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. But this post is not about The Family. It’s about a Contra Costa Times headline I saw halfway to the theater about Bay Area schools suspending suspensions and turning…

  • Did Calibre and/or Bing hijack my opening page on Google Chrome?

    Avoid Calibre’s free ebook management program—even if it is offered through CNET or from the source.

  • Clarifying Between Bullying and Critiquing Book Reviews

    Originally posted on Falls Into Writing: With the changes in the publishing world, more and more the reader is becoming king. Never has the reader had so much power in what becomes hot or not than now in the age of online reviews for writing. And with the rise in self-publishing where the gatekeeping is now directly in the hands…