You’ve read a lot of books, right? Did they have a memorable opening? Do you think you could recognize a book just by it’s first line? Try these ones: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must…

I’m instituting a new feature here at Upper Fort Stewart. If you send me your embarrassing reader dilemmas I’ll solve them for you. OK, I won’t necessarily solve them for you, I’ll just give you some good advice. Wait, did I just write good advice? Here’s a few sample dilemmas to get you started: I’m…

And they talked about blogging. Ba-dump-bump. Wait! Sorry, I’ll stop being lame. Let’s start over. I can do better. I promise. I actually did go out one night with another blogger. The night in question being Friday. The other blogger being Elliot of Claw of The Conciliator. As you can guess, it was a fairly…

Shakespeare, it’s well known, had a thing for words. If you don’t, and you’re feeling a little frustrated by him, you might not even know how to express yourself properly. That’s just way too tragically ironic. Here’s a few choice phrases you might want to lob at the bard on resurrection day to help yourself…

Hi Internet, it’s me, Ian. Could you make a cool website where millions of people enter in their favorite books from their childhood, average that list and produce some kind of definitive results? It might be nice if we could all tag the books so the list could be modified by what we want out…