The Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and Themes in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter
The Danny Trail Killings (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much of a nerd as I am I somehow managed to never get caught in the iron claw of Fantasy Fiction. I played Dungeons & Dragons, Magic Cards, nagged my parents about going to the Renaissance Fairs and Medieval Times but when it came down to books full of knights, wizards and dragons I couldn't do it. Those sort of things were things better kept in my head where my imagination can play. I remember...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Duncan: Come and meet the author of the award-winning "Alex and the Ironic Gentleman", a swash-buckling tale of high adventure! We'll talk books and pirates, and maybe even sharpen up our fencing skills!
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nanaimo: Come and meet the author of the award-winning "Alex and the Ironic Gentleman", a swash-buckling tale of high adventure! We'll talk books and pirates, and maybe even sharpen up our fencing skills!
SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's the description and table of contents for Intersection of Fantasy & Native America: From H.P. Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman: A number of contemporary Native American authors incorporate elements of fantasy into their fiction, while several non-Native fantasy authors utilize elements of Native America in their storytelling. Nevertheless,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Hollywood continues to bring out the movies based on popular YA books, because the guarantee of an audience is just too good to pass up.
Romanticised (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Currently Loving: My maths teacher's total obliviousness to the youth of today's language. Today we had to explain what LOL, ROFL and LMAO meant. He thought the latter was LAMO, as in, what a lame joke. He seemed to get that alot. Maybe it's just cause I'm growing up. Maybe everyone thinks the world is ageing with them, that the prospect of something once so well loved is now looked upon as babyish...
Isak (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As folks plot out their holiday gift-giving, I'm starting a new near-daily series here at Isak that will run through the season and that has a very simply, very direct message: Choose books as your gifts. You know, of course, that book industry is downright precarious right now--publisher layoffs are old news, fewer authors are getting published in the trimmed lists, book sales are down, and influential...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Republished from Glyn Moody the tireless advocate of openness: “In response to a tweet of mine about shortening copyright to stimulate creativity, someone questioned the logic. It’s an important point, so it seems useful to do some thinking out loud on the subject. First, I should probably address the question of whether *longer* copyright stimulates creativity. The [...]
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Childrens Audio Books with the matching books (for read along)
Chancelucky (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Call it due diligence...Okay, my work is close to a Walmart so I went there on my lunch hour. I got into the mood by getting a quarter pounder from the in store McDonald's, read a copy of US Magazine to find out why the Bachelor dumped Melissa Rycroft, then went to find Ford County, John Grisham's short story collection 16.99. The store was pretty busy, but I was the only person in the book section...
RupertGrint.Net (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A rather intense new image still from Wild Target has surfaced online! Click here to see it, bearing in mind it does include a firearm. You can learn more about Wild Target via our handy Filmography page. Additionally, the film will be screening tomorrow and Monday as part of the American Film Market. These are, sadly, private screenings geared towards American distributors.
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Ah, where were these suggestions back when I was homeschooling? SFSignal (explanations for the answers below are given at that link) asks: Q: If you were teaching a high school literature class, which science fiction or fantasy books first published within the past 10 years would you include on your syllabus? Suggestions (from various authors) include the following, some of which are over 10 years...
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Eyebrows of rare book and signature collectors will rise this fall when an extraordinary collection with a tender mission will be available for an online and live auction beginning November 9-24, 2009 (www.eBay.com ). Dubbed The Little Auction That Could (www.littleauctionthatcould.org), the 70+ collection includes signatures from some of the most iconic figures of our [...]
5pm Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Evening News in Edinburgh has been trumpeting the fact that one of the buildings in which JK Rowling wrote her Harry Potter novels has turned back into a cafe, called Spoon, after a few years as a Chinese buffet. Back in the Nineties, the Nicolson Street premises operated as Nicolson's and, along with the [...]
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Keywords: Book NEW Audio andChamber Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling Get the individual Harry Potter AudioBooks click here Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): Unabridged. 8.3 hours 7CDs It’s hard to fall in love with an earnest appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he...
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