Meg is hot-tempered and awkward at school. The only person who seems to really understand her is her odd youngest brother, Charles Wallace. He is exceptionally intelligent and eloquent for his age, but then, both of their parents are brilliant physicists. His father, however, Charles Wallace has never met. Sent away on a government program…
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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
In this sequel to Ransom Riggs’s debut novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob travels to a war-desolated London with his peculiar friends to try to help Miss Peregrine and stop the hollows. Along the way they will discover more peculiars, some even animals, and a secret plan the hollows have been developing to…
Smoke and Mirrors: A jack-in-the-box, trolls, vampires, and twisted fairytales
Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors is a book of short stories written over the course of several decades, and the stories, while all carrying some element of sci fi, also span various genres from horror, to romance, to corrupted manipulations of childhood fairy tales and figures. In only 100 words, Gaiman obliterates our childhood perceptions…
“The Ocean at the End of the Lane” and the entire universe from Egg to Rose
Neil Gaiman’s Ocean at the End of the Lane is an enchanting, profound story presented in light-hearted abstraction about childhood memories revisited. An unnamed man goes back to his hometown for a funeral, and stops by a neighbor’s house that he hasn’t been to in decades. In the back yard is a little duck pond,…
A Cupcake and a Book 