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Category Archives: Books
L. Frank Baum’s Oz books: An omnibus review by Chuck Lipsig
The Wizard of Oz (George M. Hill and Company, 1901) The Land of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1904) Ozma of Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1907) Dororthy and the Wizard in Oz (Reilly and Britton, 1908) The Road to Oz (Reilly … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Oz
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Evan I. Schwartz’s Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Finding Oz is a biography of L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. Rather than being one of those ghastly concoctions that look at their subjects’ public lives in total isolation from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, biography, L. Frank Baum, nonfiction
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L. Frank Baum and Michael Patrick Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, and Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice
Norton has risen beyond its usual level of excellence in both the content and design of these volumes. They will certainly be treasured members of my library. Physically each book is a hardcover measuring a compact 10 inches tall by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz books
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Kansas Centennial Edition; Illustrator Michael McCurdy; Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Lahri Bond wrote this review. To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, University Press of Kansas has released a special “Kansas Centennial Edition”of the book. For those whose only … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
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Gareth Hanrahan’s The One Ring: Moria: Through The Doors of Durin
The One Ring: Moria: Through the Doors of Durin is a source book for the role playing game based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Like others, it takes certain liberties, albiet in expansion terms rather than deviation. It is … Continue reading
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Tom Mula’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol audiobook
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. MARLEY was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And … Continue reading
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Paul Davis’s The Lives & Times of Ebenezer Scrooge
It’s been said that Charles Dickens, by writing A Christmas Carol was more responsible than anyone else for how we conceive Christmas as a holiday: a plump goose, decorated trees, gifts, giving to the poor — all can be found … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Victorian literature
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John Langstaff, George Emlen & Patrick Swanson’s Celebrate the Winter: Winter Solstice Celebrations for Schools and Communities
Jack here. I was down at Toad Hall listening to Brigid practice with the Quasimodal Orchestra, the busking/street theatre group she’s a member of. (Well, you didn’t think I was the only musician in me household, did you? Shame, shame … Continue reading
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Tagged Revels, Winter Solstice
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Frank Tieri, J. Calafiore, and Jack Purcell’s Batman: Gotham Underground
The problem with a story arc like Gotham Underground is that, by itself, it doesn’t really get to go anywhere. Instead, it’s tied into and supports the continuity of a larger limited series/crossover event/superhero throwdown, and as such what happens … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, superheroes
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Simon R. Green’s Shadows Fall
Somewhere off the beaten path of society and civilization, there lies the mysterious town of Shadows Fall. The elephants’ graveyard of the imagination, it’s where gods and heroes, legends and monsters, myths and childhood companions all go when their time … Continue reading