Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
This past week’s prompt was Epic Poetry. I will preface this by saying: no, we did not have time to write a full Epic. It was more looking at the elements: magic, a hero, a vast setting, etc. I did not start a new piece for this prompt; instead I worked on a poem I
Dragons, just dragons and magic and bonds and a bit of romance. It does not matter how old I get I’m still drawn to tales with dragons. I defiantly picked up the first book based on the cover. Also duologys are great because you get more of the story but it’s not as overwhelming as
The prompt for this story is what would happen if mythical creatures were real in this day and age. What would people do? How would the creatures act? Creatures such dragons, mermaids, giants, unicorns, and so on. The stories produced by this prompt were fantastic. My story is based off what is jokingly called the
The prompt that sparked these two poems was jokingly named poems of salt, things we disliked, this that frustrated us. There were a lot of heavy poems the week we wrote these. Mine are a bit lighter, a bit more metaphoric but still have themes that are important to me. What poems of salt would
Title: MurtaghAuthor: Christopher PaoliniPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Alfred A. Knopf I grew up reading the Eragon books or the Inheritance Cycle. The last book in the original portion of the series was published in 2011. Returning after so many years is a bit like a bittersweet homecoming. The world is no longer safe for the Dragon
I have not posted a book review in a while. The truth is, I’ve been reading a lot but I’ve also been busy. To remedy that, I have decided to do a couple of series reviews to give an idea of what I have been reading that’s new. I’ve also been doing some re-reading of
Title: The Fork, The Witch, and The WormAuthor: Christopher PaoliniPublication Date: 2018Publishing House: Penguin Books I read the Inheritance Cycle books starting in middle school and the last one, Inheritance, was released in 2011. I’ve known about The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm for a while but I hadn’t stumbled across it until recently. It
Title: A Natural History of DragonsAuthor: Marie Brennan Publication Date: 2013Publishing House: Tor Books Dragons. I’ve been reading a lot of books about dragons recently. A Natural History of Dragons has probably been on my to read shelf since the year it was published. Sometimes it takes me a bit to get to reading them. The
Title: Black Powder WarAuthor: Naomi NovikPublication Date: 2006Publishing House: Del Rey Books This is book three in the Temeraire series. When I first started reading this series I thought there were five books, but no, there are nine. That is just a general heads up for those that are interested in the story of Temeraire
Title: Sword of DestinyAuthor: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French (Translator)Publication Date: 1992, 2015Publishing House: Orbit This book falls after The Last Wish. The Witcher Saga does end oddly but I couldn’t leave a book unread especially one of the early ones. Beside I borrowed this book from the library and that is always worth it. Synopsis
McGee Travel Tales 