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Legends of the Fire Spirits
I’ve mentioned Legends of the Fire Spirits by Robert Lebling a couple of times on Twitter, so I think a blog post is overdue. In writing about the djinn, I made up a mythology to set them in, one with angels, romance and redemption, but if you read Legends of the Fire Spirits you’ll discover…
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Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Pop culture has always seemed to me to be a 1960s and onward phenomenom. But that’s because I’m an idiot and confuse it with pop art, which is very cool, but only an element of our culture. Popular culture is as old as us humans’ tendency to gather together and entertain one another. Pop culture…
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“Oh, Money! Money!” by Eleanor Porter
A few days ago I downloaded a free copy of Oh, Money! Money! by Eleanor Porter to my kindle. She’s the author of Pollyanna. It started me thinking about the appeal of these old classics–often subtly dismissed as “children’s” classics. In fact, Oh, Money! Money! is a middle-aged romance. One of the most obvious aspects…