Jane's Eclectic Favourites

- Indicates it is really my favourite, whatever that is worth.

Books 

The Bookdragon - Excellent book reviews of current books, all genres.
Booklist
Books Online (The Gutenberg archive of public-domain electronic texts)
Canadian Literature - A Quarterly Criticism and Review   
The Canadian Review of Materials
Encyclopedia of Arda - a tribute to and a celebration of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site is intended to evolve into an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples. 
Even Texans Can Read
FanFiction.Net (Thee place for fanfic.)
Forbidden Library - A site featuring information on banned and challenged books.
Holy Cross Libraries - Reference Sources on the Web 
Governor General's Literary Awards
Littera Scripta - Antiquarian, Used, and Rare Books on the Internet
My Shelf - Books reviews, contests, author interviews, and lots more.
The Mystery Guide - Fantastic! Reviews, Lists, Everything!
The Mystery Place 
Overbooked - A web site for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information. Includes author web pages, annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover U.S. fiction releases.
Powell's City of Book
Sara's Library - This web site contains my reviews and descriptions of all the books I own. I usually read horror, mystery, and juvenile fiction, but I do sometimes read sci-fi/fantasy, romance, and nonfiction books.  Besides reviews, there are author bios, links, polls, and more.
Stop You're Killing Me - A site to die for- if you like mysteries (lots of links)
Science Fiction & Fantasy World

Educational

Nasa
Smithsonian
Legends
Dictionary of Slang - U. K.
Online Dictionaries - Find Latin/English, Dutch/English, French/English and many more
Mythography  NEW 
Sites for Teachers
Encyclopedia Mythica    Argh! This fantastic site is inaccessible right now.  No worries though...Here is another fabulous source for Myth-information.  Mythography

This site has information from Encyclopedia Mythica.  It isn't the real thing, but it's not bad.

For Fun

Bob and Doug McKenzie - Canadian culture at its finest
Book-A-Minute (No time to read the whole book?  Get an extra-short summary here.) 
The Brunching Shuttlecocks - Has movie reviews and some weird things...
Empire On-Line
Fun Trivia - The world's largest trivia site.  Make your own trivia quizzes!  Try the Diana Lynch quiz.
herr-der-ringe-film
Official Site for the British Monarchy
Official Star Wars Site
Planet Sullivan (Redwall stuff and a variety of fun things)
Relapsed Catholic - I highly recommend this site.  You don't need to be Catholic to laugh your pants off here.  It is full of news of the weird.  
Trek Today - Star Trek fans will enjoy this...
The M. M. Kaye Page

The Tolkien Crackpot Theories Page

The Tolkien Society
Trixie Belden Homepage 
Tamara's Victorian Corner
Lord of the Rings Movie Site
lord of the rings.net
Urban Legends
Newspapers and Magazines
Ananova
CNN
The Door Magazine - The world's pretty much only religious satire magazine.
Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
Fark - Weird and wonderful news from around the world.  NEW
The Mystery Reader
The Times
TV Guide
Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine
Romantic Times Magazine

Shopping

Barnes and Noble
The Body Shop Canada - great stuff, great service
Chapters / Indigo
Hampstead House - Discount books, movies, and more, including lots of British imports.  I use this a lot.
Maple Music - The Great Canadian Music Site

Web Building 

Creating Killer Websites
Microsoft Clip Gallery - Find any kind of clip.  Awesome resource. 
Web Pages That Suck
Dynamic Drive - The premier place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML scripts and components to enhance your web site.
Media Builder (Wow. Wow. Wow.)
Graphics By Suz
HTML Goodies - learn HTML, Java, and find all sorts of web page help.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Link to lots of interesting internet information sites here, from internet law to html hints.
Clipart Castle
Weird Websites
And the Bride Wore... - Weird wedding dresses and accessories.
Bud's Travels - Bud is a mannequin. He has been traveling all over the world since 1983...
Hats of Meat - I have no idea...
Japanese Engrish
Jump the Shark - Has your favourite show gone bad? Here's the place to rant.
Mr. T vs Everything
The Not-Really-Existent Page
ShatnerRocks - I can't even begin to tell you how much fun this site is.  A must visit. 
Simpson Test - Find out which Simpson you are most like.
So You've Decided to be Evil - A How to Guide for eager evil-doers.
Spamku - SPAM, that mysterious food product, has spawned a post-modern, cross-cultural literary form: the SPAM haiku, or SPAM-ku... 
Squirrel Hazing
Word's Worth
The Anagram Engine  
Wordsmith
Puzzability Puzzles
Wilton's Word and Phrase Origins 
The Word Detective (The place to find out what "cock a snook" means)
Cornerstone's Canadian English Page
World Wide Words
Words@Random
Online Crosswords

Writer's Links

Bard's Ink  
Fiction Writer's Connection
Grammar Now
Lynn Coleman's Inspirational Romance Resource Links (She has got it all here.)
The Modern World
Romance Writer's of America

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