the Wood between Worlds

When I was growing up, all through elementary school we would watch movies and read books about the Berenstein Bears.  I still even remember...

I originally wrote this February, 2011 on a different blog, but decided to repost it here. Lyra and Iorek This week I read the entire...

Note from Reece: this is a guest post by one of my friends, explaining his position in a running debate between ourselves. That's how ...

I've posted before summarizing, briefly, why Harry Potter is terrible.  Essentially, it is this: she took a kids-book fairytale world ...

A friend of mine recently "read" The Sad Tale of the Brother's  Grossbart .  I use scare quotes, because he put the book down...

Last night, I went to see The Dark Knight Rises. I don't normally go to see movies, because most of them are simply terrible.  Typica...

I recently read The Magicians  by Lev Grossman.  The story is sort of a commentary/deconstruction of childhood fantasy novels, especially Ha...