Tag Archives: science fiction
Monday Book Review: The Phantom Bully by Jeffrey Brown
I picked up this book thinking it would be cute for my nephew for his birthday, and I ended up reading it myself. What can I say? I’m a Star Wars geek through and through. Title: The Phantom Bully (Star … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Middle Grade, Reading
Tagged graphic novel, middle grade, middle grade books, middle school, sci-fi, science fiction, Star Wars
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Monday Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Cinder has been on my TBR pile for a couple of years, at least. Yes, that’s how long my to-be-read list is! I had started reading it last summer, but then my mom fell ill and grad school started up, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Reading, Speculative Fiction
Tagged book review, Cinderella, dystopian, fairy tale, Marissa Meyer, science fiction
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Writing Wednesday: Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces Part III
For the last two Wednesdays, I’ve been posting about Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell studied stories from mythologies around the world and found that the hero stories had certain common elements. The first phase is the … Continue reading