Story and Somnomancy

Story and Somnomancy

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25 Reads: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

August 10, 2014by Mari1 Comment on 25 Reads: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
25 Reads: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

I undertook this reading project in the hopes of getting through my overly-long Goodreads reading list, so naturally I brought myself to finally reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. At this point, most people are familiar with the story of the Kansas girl who gets swept up in a violent storm to be dropped into a [...]

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25 Reads: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

July 11, 2014July 11, 2014by Mari4 Comments on 25 Reads: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
25 Reads: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

I suppose I had to be at a different mindset to fully appreciate the tremendous impact of Jules Verne to modern science fiction, but my reading such classics are so far and few that it hardly seems worth waiting to be in the right mood to read them. That being said, there is no denying [...]

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TTT: Top Ten Favorite Classic Books

July 1, 2014June 30, 2014by Mari2 Comments on TTT: Top Ten Favorite Classic Books
TTT: Top Ten Favorite Classic Books

 A classic book is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, either through an imprimatur such as being listed in any of the Western canons or through a reader's own personal opinion. - Wikipedia entry - Since that's a very vague definition--and since it ultimately becomes a subjective list chosen by a certain reader--I'm [...]

Mari

Mari-with-an-I prefers her fantasies drenched in oil and fried up in faerie, but when that’s not the case, she’ll read it anyway. She likes writing what she reads, and likes baking while she writes. She’s written a few things for anthologies, including an anthology that got translated into Czech (I know, right?! Eeeeee!), and if you haven’t read them yet, she urges you to do so! Who knows, there might be a few cookies waiting for you at the end of the read.

…Or not. (Blast her pet steampoctopus for eating them all!)

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5 cookies = Book was so deliciously awesome that I couldn't put it down or get it out of my mind for a while.

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