Tv Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/ConanTheAdventurer Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Adventurer_(1992_TV_series) Can be viewed here: https://tubitv.com/series/6/conan_the_adventurer Robert E.Howard is one of my literary idols and his Conan stories are one of my absolute favourite Fantasy series (though even among Howard's own characters, I prefer Solomon Kane. Howard's stories don't usually pull any punches when it comes to violence and mature themes, [...]
Category: Recommendations
Recommendation: I Want My Hat Back
Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/I-Want-My-Hat-Back/dp/0763655988 Penguin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/214488/i-want-my-hat-back-by-jon-klassen/ This'll be a pretty a quick post. I Want My Hat Back is great. Go read it. And also read it to your kids. There's a bear. He wants his hat back. He asks the other animals about it. It's a picture book, so it's at a lower reading level than [...]
Not-Not a Recommendation: One Piece
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece Anime News Network: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=836 So, being as that I write about pirates, I would be remiss not to mention probably the most popular piece of media in recent memory related to pirates (and, incidentally, the most popular manga series of all time). That piece of media being One Piece. That being said, I [...]
Book Recommendation: The Horse and His Boy
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_and_His_Boy Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84119.The_Horse_and_His_Boy Quick, name a Narnia book that isn't The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Hint: You've got six options. Long story short: there are seven Narnia books, about every other one is good, and you've probably only ever read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And what's why I'd like [...]
Book Recommendation: Percy Jackson et al
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_the_Olympians Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Jackson-Olympians-Paperback-covers-poster/dp/1484707230/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40736-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians I have a Classics MA and I've been reading about mythology for as long I could read, so a book about a modern day Greek demigod going, essentially, to Demigod School is exactly the kind of thing I'd be all over. Part of me wishes I'd heard about Percy [...]
Book Recommendation: The Chronicles of Prydain
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Chronicles-Prydain-Boxed-Set/dp/1250000939/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40371-the-chronicles-of-prydain The abridged version: Lord of the Rings, but Welsh. The less-abridged version: Really, Prydain's biggest flaw is that Lloyd Alexander had most of the ideas that countless lesser writers decided to ape from. Prydain was first published in the 60s, about ten years after Lord of the Rings was. The Fantasy genre [...]
Book Recommendation: Tales from the Perilous Realm
I thought I'd try something new with this post, largely because I'm running out of other things to post about. If you're visiting this website, that probably means either or both of two things: you like books, and you like Fantasy books specifically. With that in mind, I thought I'd start bringing to your attention [...]
