I have often heard that stories affect us more like experience than fact, working their way down into our unconscious beliefs. This held true in my childhood reading, and Bill Peet’s picturebook, […]
Newly Minted Familiarity
Fantasy is a two-edged sword. It can amplify our disenchantment with the world, or refresh our appreciation of it. William Jay Smith does a great job communicating the romance of […]
Tales of Winter: The Sword of the Spirits Trilogy by John Christopher
Note: This review contains numerous spoilers. To read more about tales of winter, check out my original Story Warren post here, as well as my review of Jonny Duddle’s The […]
A Gentle Introduction to Hard Occasions
We’re approaching the beginning of September, which means soon we’ll be marking another anniversary of 9/11. In the last couple of years I have encountered two books — both based […]
Discovering Echo
Audiobooks. In my experience, they can be hit or miss. A well-plotted and suspenseful story filled with wonderful characters can still fall flat if the audiobook narrator doesn’t capture the […]
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