Tag: fantasy
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Review: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
It’s probably just random luck, but I keep running into books where the main character happens to be a disillusioned academic who’s struggling with his or her dissertation. I find it amusing to think that this is the new normal for fiction. Maybe if I go back to school for my PhD, I too can…
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Review: A Wizard of EarthSea
I realize the incredible chutzpah of deciding to “review” a seminal work that is foundational to its genre, many, many decades after it first made a name for itself. However, Review sounds better than “Karen prattles on about Earthsea for a few paragraphs,” so that’s what I’m going with. I’ve had a problem with the…
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Maylee
Maylee is a character in a fantasy project I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while. She is a Medusa, but she’s actually a very nice Medusa; don’t believe the reputation. Just felt like this was a nicely random drawing to post on a nicely random Thursday.
Karen L. Mead 