Fantasy Novel Repeats
July 23, 2012Recently, I read The Orphan King by Sigmund Brouwer, a historical fantasy novel that released this month. The concept seemed familiar, and the further I…
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The World of E-books: Booktracks
June 27, 2012As the world of books and publishing evolves, perhaps it’s natural that people began to consider the fusion of books and music. For some time,…
5 Reasons to Read Fairy Tale Retellings
June 11, 2012For countless years, fairy tales have been told and retold, and right now there’s a strong growth of re-imagined fairy tales in both books and…
On Being a Hero
June 8, 2012Even the seemingly small and insignificant may have souls of great courage. Don’t we cheer all the more for a character who determines to do…
Reader Interpretation Versus Writer Intention
May 30, 2012Fantasy deals with worlds other than our own, yet it has strong application to the realities of life. Allegory, supposal, applicability, or the range in…
Four Sources of Christian Fantasy Short Stories
May 14, 2012Although I’m not generally a short story reader, one of the purposes of this blog is to make known different sources of Christian fantasy. And…
The Impact of a Name
May 11, 2012A recent New York Times article highlighted a loosely collaborative project between the grandson of Tolkien and the great-great-grandson of Dickens.The project consists of two…
Books that Cast Vision
April 20, 2012If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to…
What Fuels Literary Trends?
April 4, 2012For hundreds of years, novels have followed distinct trends as genres and styles rise and fall in popularity. These literary trends might appear in the…
Introducing Non-Fantasy Readers to Speculative Fiction
March 21, 2012As a life-long reader of fantasy, most of the genre conventions seem normal to me. Strange names, new languages, different rules of reality, the period…