Posted in Fairy Tales, Review on Oct 2nd, 2008
The merciless Macdonwald,
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villainies of nature
Do swarm upon him, from the Western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied…
Macbeth, (1.2.7-11)
Finally, it’s here [alack, alas, the interwebs have been uncooperative today, but Joe says we're working on Mountain Time today] - our interview with Maggie Stiefvater! Listen to [...]
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Posted in Fairy Tales, Review, Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2008
From Sheryl:
Something uplifting to get us into the swing of things for a new week:
I’ve just started the latest offering from Maggie Stiefvater, “Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception”. So far I’ve met Deirdre Monaghan and a handsome–perhaps Victorian–boy, Luke Dillon, from her dream, who demands greatness from her.
“Do you know how some people can do [...]
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Posted in Les Bonnes Fees, Review, admin, art on Sep 29th, 2008
The September issue of Les Bonnes Fees is now online–so settle down with a cup of hot chocolate, something to eat, a box of tissues, and get reading!
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Posted in Review on Jul 19th, 2008
Un Lun Dun - Written and Illustrated by China Mieville
Un Lun Dun is the tale of two twelve year old girls, Zanna and Deeba in the strange, backwards, world of UnLondon.
UnLondon is a twisted version of London, filled with a combination of the unsettlingly almost-familiar and the blatantly fantastic.
Zanna and Deeba have a great evil [...]
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I have never been a fan of Salman Rushdie; I find his work too overblown, too in love with itself. But, after an interview about The Enchantress of Florence–a book that sounded like a literary and historical Harry Potter–my interest sparked.
Then, during my escape to an air-conditioned coffee shop this morning (it’s 33 C as [...]
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Posted in Fairy Tales, Review on May 26th, 2008
What if their lives continued beyond happily ever after? What if they all existed in the same universe and interacted? What if they had been forced from their homelands and set up shop in “Fable Town” - a couple of blocks of Manhattan that the “mundies” (that’s us mundane types) seem to never really notice?
That [...]
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Posted in Fairy Tales, Review on May 26th, 2008
What if their lives continued beyond happily ever after? What if they all existed in the same universe and interacted? What if they had been forced from their homelands and set up shop in “Fable Town” - a couple of blocks of Manhattan that the “mundies” (that’s us mundane types) seem to never really notice?
That [...]
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