The weekly web ramble (10/18)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Evangeline Lily and Orlando Bloom discuss playing Elves who weren’t actually in The Hobbit

– Eleven lessons women today can still learn from Jane Eyre

<– AUTHOR TALK

Neil Gaiman on the importance of reading

Lemony Snicket points out 13 passages from children’s lit that are more dreadful than they first appear

Morgan Keyes on how her book became a textbook case of exactly what authors feared would happen once Borders shuttered

Rick Riordan shares a deleted scene from The Last Olympian

WEB READS –>

The Creature Department

– Check out the first forty pages of The Creature Department by Robert Paul Weston

Sorrows Knot

– Read an excerpt from Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow

Boxers

– Check out an excerpt from Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang

Picture Me Gone

– Read an excerpt from Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff