The Musings of Two Long-Time Friends

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Lirael, and Being Whoever You Are

Lirael, and Being Whoever You Are

Note, reiterated: There’s no such thing as spoilers for a book that’s more than, like, ten years old. Still, if you want to read the Old Kingdom series for yourself untainted, here there be spoilers. You have been warned. Look, somehow, I can’t start talking […]

Sabriel, and Local Problems

Sabriel, and Local Problems

I’ve been taking far, far, far too long to get around to reading Clariel and Goldenhand by Garth Nix, and I decided that in order to get myself in the right place to do it, I would reread the original Old Kingdom books. I have […]

Resonant Truths in The Name of the Wind

Resonant Truths in The Name of the Wind

The first time I read Patrick Rothfuss’s masterful epic fantasy The Name of the Wind, it took my breath away. My friend Daniel recommended it with the highest sort of insistence that I absolutely must read it. It clocks in at over seven hundred pages–a […]

Beatrice Zinker, and Stories of Friendship

Beatrice Zinker, and Stories of Friendship

A few grad school friends and I continue our passion for children’s literature by having a monthly book club. We read everything from picture books and early readers through young adult fiction–generally focusing popular titles that have been published in the last few years. One […]