Sweet Art

I promised I would do a post on the artist Darrell K Sweet,  who did the artwork and cover for The Elfstones of Shannara and theWishsong of Shannara.
First let me say, that if the books weren’t so long I would use a magnifying glass and muddle thru them but I really don’t feel like doing that [...]

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Beauty & the Beast, Roy Dotrice & George R R Martin

This is just a little update about the dvd’s of Beauty and the Beast.. and if I seem obsessed, so be it.   
I’ve watched the whole first season and today watched the 5th episode of Season two..  George R R Martin’s name is all over this television series!  I hope (and assume) he made out very [...]

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Monday Photo Shoot

Karen over at Outpost Mâvarin does a little thing called “Monday Photoshoot“, which she took over from John Scalzi when he left AOL… I don’t generally do the photoshoot.. not for any particular reason I think I just don’t care to do “certain things on certain days” but for whatever reason when I saw she [...]

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Dragon’s Egg

No promises… but here I go again!..   
 

 Quest the First…

Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology…or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.
Book : 1 Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L [...]

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The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Harrison Ford is making the rounds on television for the opening of the new Indy movie..
It always amazes me that more than a year after they actually make the movie, and  have long since moved on and possibly even made other movies, that they are now expected to remember things about something they did so [...]

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The Book of the Dragon

 Quest the First…

Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology…or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.
Book 5: The Book of the Dragon by Ciruelo

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Union Square Press [...]

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The Mislaid Magician

    
 Quest the First…

Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology…or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.
 

Book 4:  The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After by Patricia C Wrede [...]

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2008… so far.

The photo below is the list I am keeping of the books I read in 2008…

When I look at this list (so far), I see old friends (Pern, Belgarath, Raistlin etc), and I see new friends, (Bartamaeus, Mary Russell, Cecelia etc) and I see time enjoyed inside my books.
Knowing this I still wonder, how come [...]

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A Beauty, A Beast, and a Rose

You must be sick of me mentioning Roy Dotrice or anything about Father on Beauty & the Beast.  Well………….  one more time!  But this time it has to do with the fact that I just purchased all 3 seasons of Beauty and the Beast on DVD!! ohhhhhhhh yeah! 

Lookey Lookey!!  They came in the mail [...]

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I’m Ba-a-a-d

Have you ever watched a bad movie just because an actor you like is in it?
I have.
And I did just that Saturday morning on TCM. 
It was called The People That Time Forgot (1977)  ..and it was so “corny” it was almost laughable!  But it had one thing.. or rather, one person in it that [...]

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