When I was growing up, one of my favorite authors was David Eddings. I really looked forward to his books, and I reread his series multiple times. The Belgariad, the Mallorean, the Elenium, and the Tamuli were all great, though I liked the first two more. However, I’d never really returned to those books. At […]
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I’ve started reading a genre that’s fairly new to me: Literary Role-Playing Game, or LitRPG. I’d heard about it back when I was reading the Cradle Series, by Will Wight. I really enjoyed that one (check out my review), though I think I called it “level up fantasy” at the time. It’s about a main
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Sometimes it takes a while for me to get around to watching a movie. I’m human. What can I say? In this case, it took 21 years. I remember hearing people saying good things about The Secret of Roan Inish back when it first came out in 1994. A movie about some girl in Ireland
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I had a post all set to go today. Was just about to hit “Publish,” actually. And then I read this. I have loved Terry Pratchett books since I first came across them. The Discworld series is just so much fun–so wide and sprawling and interesting. You never knew exactly what you were going to
Terry Pratchett, My Favorite Contemporary Author Just Died Read More »
As soon as the Hobbit trilogy was announced, I had one goal that popped right up on my radar: watch all 6 movies as close to back-to-back as I could. (When you have a full time job and three children, watching 20 hours or so of films is going to be difficult to pull off
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