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March 13, 2020
March 10, 2020
Teen Tuesday: Fahrenheit 451
Blurb: Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction… Continue reading Teen Tuesday: Fahrenheit 451
March 9, 2020
Book Spotlight and Sneak Peak – A Death at Dawn
Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: A feudalistic world, embedded for centuries within the continent of Mystos is falling apart. Peasant uprisings, political and religious scheming from the academia, and the highborn’s lust for power are the causes for this political downfall in Mystos. A DEATH AT DAWN is the first book of an epic fantasy series that… Continue reading Book Spotlight and Sneak Peak – A Death at Dawn
March 2, 2020
Whispers of Nowhere by Shannon Rohrer
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Synopsis (Goodreads): When Gwen, a curator’s daughter unwittingly breaks the seals on a mythical prison realm, she is whisked away by the watchful Forneus and the hot-blooded Phenex, and into a world beyond her wildest imaginings. With malevolent forces now on the rampage, intent on revenge against the gods whom imprisoned… Continue reading Whispers of Nowhere by Shannon Rohrer
February 26, 2020
Charmed and Lethal Book Club Questions
Christine and I have heard of a few book clubs reading Charmed and Lethal. I thought it would be fun to get some discussion questions up for it.
February 25, 2020
Teen Tuesday: The Land of the Faes
Genre: YA/ Fantasy Publishing Info: September 2019 Synopsis (from Amazon): “There’s been a stirring in the Land of Faes.” The Council of Warlocks is closing in on the Emerson Stone, and if they get it, Yutara as we know it will cease to exist.To retrieve the stone, it must be given freely to whomever desires… Continue reading Teen Tuesday: The Land of the Faes
Characters I'd Follow on Social Media
This was a pretty hard one to come up with the answers. There are so many awesome characters in literature. To come up with the ones I’d follow…. it was more that I had to narrow them down. Robin Hood – One of my favorite books is Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. Robin lives such... Read More
February 24, 2020
Book Review: Never World by E. Racine
Genre: YA Fantasy Synopsis (from Amazon): Sixteen-year-old Samantha Beckett and her friend, Charley Neilson, are walking home from school when they find themselves being chased by two strange looking boys in a white van. Racing through backyards and under hedges, they finally shake their pursuers, only to run into Captain Bartholomew Jones, a man who... Read More
February 19, 2020
Opposite Gender Pen Name by Chris H. Stevenson
There are so many instances of neutral initial pen names, also called non de plumes, that it’s rather ordinary and taken as a normal happenstance in the literary world. Jo Rowling is perhaps one of the most famous examples. C.S. Lewis and D.L. James come to mind. Pretty ordinary stuff here. What about a gender...
February 18, 2020
Teen Tuesday: Pride and Prejudice
Genre: Classic Romance Description from Amazon: When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is... Read More
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