[3] What’s fantasy, you ask? There’s no single, accepted definition, but the giveaway is usually magic. Whether it’s The Lord of the Rings or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if the world described in the book features some difference from Earth that is the result of magic or other unexplained phenomena, you’re probably holding a fantasy novel.
[5] Drawing inspiration from sources such as 1984 and The Running Man, as well as the gladiatorial games in ancient Rome, Suzanne Collins raises the bar in the dystopia genre with her gripping trilogy about survival and mass media gone too far.
[7] Don't go there. Seriously, don't go there. Wondering where to take your next road trip or how to squander those frequent flyer miles? Instead of suggestions for where you should visit, how about a list of places to avoid?
[9] If your only experience of Beowulf is the 2007 3-D film [10], there’s one thing you know for sure – Grendel’s mom is hot! That film rather imaginatively recast the monstrous swamp mama as Angelina Jolie. I like eye candy as much as the next moviegoer, but the film’s creators were quite misleading.
[12] Hattie heard the strangers approaching long before they reached her father’s tobacco farm. The groan of straining wagon wheels. The thudding of horses’ hooves on the hard Missouri dirt. And as she lay worrying and waiting for what was to come, she looked out of her upstairs window until she finally saw their shadowy shapes form at the edge of the yard.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/11-best-fantasy-books-2010
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11365#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-hunger-games-trilogy
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11349#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-101-places-not-see-you-die
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-101-places-not-see-you-die#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-beowulf
[10] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11265#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-thunder
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11266#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=46
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=42
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=43
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=44
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=45
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=48
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=49
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=50
