First off, I hope everyone out there is doing well and is staying safe and healthy. This last week has been incredibly strange but it's amazing to see everyone banding together to try and bring down this virus! Social media can be a little much at times but I think in this case, it's been … Continue reading #quarantineweek
Category: Literature
“Higitus Figitus”: A List of My Personal Favorite Fictional Wizards
"...they are real. It's all real. Think about it. Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he... he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same could be said of Bugs Bunny … Continue reading “Higitus Figitus”: A List of My Personal Favorite Fictional Wizards
The Will of the Wheel
“The wheel weaves as the wheel wills” For years, I’ve been reading a variety of fantasy books. I've read classic fantasy epics like Lord of the Rings, avant garde stories like American Gods and fantasy epics such as A Song of Ice and Fire which shun the usual fantasy tropes. Each of these … Continue reading The Will of the Wheel
My Favorite Books of 2019
The books I read in 2019 were defined by a couple of re-reads but I also utilized some tremendous recommendations from people whose literary opinions I respect. I can't help myself when it comes to picking up some of my favorite books again but I also realized that there is nothing like reading a book … Continue reading My Favorite Books of 2019
Re: Television And The Literature That Inspired Them
In today's era of modern television, the envelope is being pushed farther than ever before. Directors and showrunners are taking risks that up until now, had only been seen on the silver screen. Budgets are ballooning to the point where a single 50 minute episode might cost as much as an entire 3 … Continue reading Re: Television And The Literature That Inspired Them
My 7 Favorite Books of 2018
I read a lot of books this year... so I felt the need to rank them... as Albus Dumbledore once said "Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it."... these were my favorite words in 2018... enjoy... Honorable Mentions: The autobiography … Continue reading My 7 Favorite Books of 2018