6/29/2023 0 Comments The blue lady of coffin hall![]() It's increasingly apparent that someone has more than a passing interest in shutting down the library. Ned and Nancy track down a ghostly saboteur in the twenty-third book in the Nancy Drew Diaries series, a fresh approach to a classic series.Nancy and Ned are visiting Coffin Hall, an estate turned rare books library, doing research on the library’s rumored ghost for an episode of the NedTalks podcast when a fire breaks out in the records room. Charles III walks alongside the coffin carrying Queen Elizabeth II with the Imperial State. When she investigates further, she learns that the fire was just the latest in a string of recent strange and inexplicable incidents plaguing Coffin Hall. (US President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden. He tells Nancy he saw a lady in blue right before the incident, and thinks it was Henrietta Coffin, the ghost of Coffin Hall! Nancy is confident her boyfriend is innocent, and she's determined to identify the real culprit, though she's pretty sure it wasn't of the paranormal sort. ![]() One of the library's security guards accuses Ned of arson-after all, he was the only one in the room when the fire started-but Ned swears it wasn't him. Nancy and Ned are visiting Coffin Hall, an estate turned rare books library, doing research on the library's rumored ghost for an episode of the NedTalks podcast when a fire breaks out in the records room. ![]() ![]() Ned and Nancy track down a ghostly saboteur in the twenty-third book in the Nancy Drew Diaries series, a fresh approach to a classic series. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Goodman brown story![]() ![]() He leaves his newly wedded wife, Faith, at home so that he may embark upon this sinful adventure with the devil. In this tale, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a 17th century Puritan attempting to find justification for the existence of Satan as Brown sets off on a radical journey through the woods. This concept holds true in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”. ![]() Most every word in a story has a larger purpose than its initial meaning. In short stories of classical literature, there are often many more messages conveyed than what is apparent in the first reading. “And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Matt cruse series![]() ![]() ![]() This story is pure action-adventure, complete with pirates and a surivival storyline. I really enjoy both Matt’s character and POV, as well as Kate’s curious and spunky character. The story follows Matt on his adventures with a girl he meets named Kate as they try to track down a mysterious winged creature mentioned in a journal of a dying ballooinst. Airborn is from the POV of Matt, a 15-year-old cabin boy of the airship Aurora. Lately, about 90% of the books I’ve been reading have been from a female POV, and this is a good change of pace. I know, interesting, right?Īs I re-read this, I remember how much I enjoyed the story and the characters. ![]() Airborn, the first in the series, is a YA adventure with a Titanic vibe and an undercurrent of zoology, set in an early 1900’s alternate reality where airships are the primary mode of transportation. When I was a pre-teen or teen, the Matt Cruse trilogy was one of my favorite series. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Where loyalties lie by rob j hayes![]() Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() edition was published by Rolling Stone′s Straight Arrow Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, released in 1975 after a series of copyright conflicts. edition of Hollywood Babylon was published in 1965 by Associated Professional Services of Phoenix, Arizona. ![]() Pauvert ( Paris) as Hollywood Babylone, the first U.S. Originally published in French in 1959 by J.J. There is no doubt that many-if not all-of the stories Anger shares in his slim bible have no merit." Film historian Kevin Brownlow repeatedly criticized the book, citing Anger as saying his research method was "mental telepathy, mostly". Upon its second release in 1975, The New York Times said of it, "If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit." The Daily Beast described Anger's book as "essentially a work of fiction. in 1965, and remained unavailable until reprinted ten years later. The book was banned shortly after it was first published in the U.S. Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Glitter & Mayhem by John Klima![]() ![]() The Minotaur Girls by Tansy Rayner Roberts Subterraneans by William Shunn & Laura Chavoen Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo With Her Hundred Miles to Hell by Kat Howard Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster by Christopher Barzak (Read for free at Apex Magazine!) The fantastic Amber Benson gets the party started with her floor-rattling introduction (Calliope Reaper-Jones series). Join glittery authors Christopher Barzak (One for Sorrow) and Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium) on the dance floor, drink cocktails with Maria Dahvana Headley (Queen of Kings: A Novel of Cleopatra, the Vampire) and Tim Pratt (Marla Mason series), and skate with Seanan McGuire (InCryptid series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian series), and Maurice Broaddus (The Knights of Breton Court series). ![]() Step behind the velvet rope of these fabulous science fiction and fantasy stories of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery.ĭance through nightclubs, roller derby with cryptids and aliens, be seduced by otherworldly creatures, and ingest cocktails that will alter your existence forever. A party in a science fiction anthology? Apex Books has that! ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments James gurney light![]() A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensible tool for any artist. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. ![]() From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments A Dance Too Far by H.L. Day![]() ![]() Events are coming to a head, and love is never a magic cure. Far deeper than Austin could ever envisage. ![]() Austin's sure though, that if he can only earn Alex's trust then the two of them could be perfect together.Ī tentative relationship begins. The magnetic attraction is one thing, but the protective instincts are harder to fathom. So, it's a mystery why he's so bewitched by the slim, quiet man with the soulful brown eyes who works in the library. Hard-working mechanic, Austin, has always gone for men as muscular as himself. But he never factored in, meeting a man like Austin. Until that time comes, he keeps everybody at bay. ![]() Burdened by memories, he dreams of the day when he can finally be free. It's been a year since Alex stopped living. Sometimes, death can feel like the only escape. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The dome stephen king![]() ![]() ![]() The way King deals expertly with this premise, exploring all its ramifications, from planes crashing into the dome and animals cut in half, to the impotence of the rest of the world outside the dome to affect events within, the way the various personalities and political manoeuvrings of a small town suddenly take on new meanings with the town's status as almost a separate biosphere, is one of the book's major strengths. ![]() "what would happen if a small American town were stuck under a glass dome and cut off from the outside world". ![]() One thing I found fascinating about Under the Dome, is the way King takes a comparatively simple premise, and manages to build on it, examine it and explore it in minute and unexpected ways. I can't really give an adequate reason for this, and judging by the quality of Under the Dome, it's plainly an oversight on my part and one I certainly will be correcting in the future. With the exception of The Dark Tower however, my king reading largely fell off as I got older. Like many people (including my Lady), I first ran into Stephen King as a teenager, and was captivated by books like It, Salem's Lot, Insomnia and The Stand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an enjoyable book, with lots of adventure, suspense, and underwater scenes. Their journey through the ocean to asylum isn't easy, but with some help from Nere's telepathically linked dolphin friends and other Neptune Project victims the kids just might make it-if they can stop quarreling among themselves. Nere and two other children are given injections that finalize their mutations and enable them to breathe water. Now the government wants to close down the project and kill all involved. ![]() She thinks nothing of her comfort with the sea until the day her mother breaks the news that Nere is a product of a genetic-mutations experiment called the Neptune Project. Nere lives by the ocean and has always had an affinity for water. Gr 6–8-In this dystopian adventure, Earth can no longer sustain life in many places and the United States has devolved into a totalitarian government. ![]() |