The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire
This article contains a few spoilers. To follow along, it’s helpful for the reader to be familiar with author George … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Classic
The Middle Earth Universe, J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Dragonfly, and I wanted to make it special … Continue reading →
On a River’s Bank, A Madhavan
Unfortunately I cannot find this book at Goodreads yet, but the Hindu Business Line has an interesting article with the … Continue reading →
The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea —“…reads like the retelling of a tale … Continue reading →
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
Now here’s a classic that truly belongs in the collection at this site (originally published in 1957). Cosimo, a young … Continue reading →
Circe, Madeline Miller
Threatened, Zeus banishes her [Circe] to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses … Continue reading →
The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg
Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at … Continue reading →
Ice, Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan’s novel “Ice,” a fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe, was … Continue reading →
Paradise Lost, John Milton
It’s been a while since I have had time to write a new Discover book feature. Partly it is just … Continue reading →
The Wolf’s Boy, Susan Williams Beckhorn
Beckhorn spent countless hours researching the history of canine-human companionship through the ages and learning about the behaviors of wolves … Continue reading →