When my husband and I got married, we merged our personal libraries. Most of his books were not anything I find particularly interesting. The Belgariad Volume One by David Eddings is one of the few exceptions. Even then, it took me almost five years to start reading it. Brandon Sanderson’s mention of David Eddings in his Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction class is what finally...

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In middle school, I had a friend who had a wardrobe. When she got fed up with everything, she’d say, “Screw it. I’m going to Narnia,” and climb into said wardrobe. Except that she dropped the F-bomb instead of the nicey-nice version I’ve written out for you… I’m not sure exactly how old I was when I first read The Chronicles of Narnia....

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At a used book sale back in April, I picked up a copy of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.  When I first saw the title, my reaction was “Either this is a classic and it sounds familiar because I’ve heard people mention it before, or it sounds familiar because it has a really generic-sounding fantasy title.” After reading it, I can...

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2018 is going by so fast! In this post, I review my goal progress from the last three months and adjust my goals for the next three. This post includes a lot of personal stuff that I don’t normally talk about on this blog. However, this is the last update for several categories. I am only keeping the ones that I need the...

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