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In a world with dazzlingly lifelike computer games, about 36 million TV channels, and the adventures of Paris Hilton and the Olsen twins, reading is fighting a losing battle to remain a viable entertainment option. Less than fifty percent of Americans over the age of 18 read novels, short stories, plays or poetry. Reading is declining at all education levels, locations, and ethnic groups. Schools are no help, forcing children to slog through Watership Down and The Color Purple, rather than offering their captive audience books that might actually entice them to become readers for pleasure. Critics are no help, recommending pretentious literature that the average person has neither the time nor the inclination to read. Oprah is no help, unless you happen to be one of the authors recommended by her hugely successful book club. She consistently chooses books that are such a challenge to finish that reading one book a month seems more than reasonable. We
here at Wordcandy wanted to create a place that celebrates all of those books that make readers happy that they learned to read in the first place. This is our grateful tribute to everyone from Jane Austen to J.K. Rowling.
Thank you.
Staff Bios
Name: Julia
Wordcandy Duties Include: writing, editing
Five Favorite Books:
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
Cotillion, by Georgette Heyer
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Buffalo Brenda, by Jill Pinkwater
Likes: UPN’s Veronica Mars, Bollywood movies, Twix bars, Harry Potter fanfiction, reading about Britney Spears’s Big Adventure, and, um, books. (Obviously.)
Dislikes: when people use the insanely condescending phrase “chick lit” to describe pretty much any book written by a girl and then turn around and call some craptastic book about a young man eyeing his navel lint “universal literature”, when innocent schoolchildren are required to read A Day No Pigs Would Die, and those nasty orange peanut-shaped marshmallow candies.
Name: Gort79
Wordcandy Duties Include: site development, writing, nagging
Five Favorite Books:
Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson
Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
Bet Me, by Jennifer Crusie
Likes: Really, REALLY bad old sci-fi movies, reading Wordcandy, Red Dwarf, cooking complex meals, baking pizzas, Frisbee™ in the evenings, the open-source software movement, recklessly spending tons of money on family outings, building stuff.
Dislikes: Traveling for business purposes, having to work through lunch, bad singers who think they aren’t, President Bush, and people who think they know more than they do (which ties in neatly with the previous dislike).
Name: Megwin
Wordcandy Duties Include: site design, writing, PR
Five Favorite Books:
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Just Friends, by Robyn Sisman
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Fast Women, by Jennifer Crusie
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Likes: Crappy teen movies, reality TV, traveling, glass blowing, Dinah the Devil Cat, pink nail polish, brand-new boxes of crayons.
Dislikes: Coconut, my exercise bike, early morning, early mornings spent on my exercise bike, prejudiced, narrow-minded people, sheep, and &@#$%*! Watership Down.
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