I’m not sure I believe in magic. I know! What a thing to say! A lifetime reader of fantasy, science fiction, a long time watcher of every scifi/fantasy movie or TV show, it’s a wowzer of a statement. I’ve been thinking a lot about magic lately, there are so many children’s books that are big…
Category: Reading
Dear Mr. Peck
Even though I now know about the local idiom in southern Illinois, “going to Anna’ meaning committed to a mental hospital, and we have chatted over drinks at a party, calling you Richard, here, now, in this, will just not do. I’m about to go all fan girl on you so you can’t be anything…
A good day for rain
What do you think of on a rainy day? Sitting by a fire reading a good book? Napping and taking it easy? For me, if it rains all day it should be either November or February and it should be chilly. That was then…this is now. Since I’ve lived on the east coast, which, Sigh,…
series
Series are endlessly fascinating to me, and not, at the same time. Lately I’ve been trying to figure out why. I grew up reading series, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Judy Bolton, Bobbsey Twins, Encyclopedia Brown. We’ve got all the Bernstein Bears and the Boxcars Children, but those were actually Bayley’s. Then as I got older, Lord…
Dr. Who….
Do you know all the regenerations of Doctor Who? I just finished reading SHADA, by Garth Roberts. It is the Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams, of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY fame, a regular Doctor Who script writer, and so much more. It’s the story of the Time Lord’s prison for those really bad…