The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs has been quite a marvelous experience for one of my age to read. Right from the beginning you cannot but just help imagining the scenario as if you were Johnny Dixon himself. Bellairs creates very thorough and thought-out characters, most significantly Professor Childermass. At first, the professor just seems like an average grumpy old man Read more…
Inside Welty’s mind: a vision for fiction “Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being who will never be confined in any frame.” ~Eudora Welty The best stories are created when a character is not in a stereotypical Read more…
The Amazing Underground Owl The burrowing owl has large lemon-lime eyes with alternating brown and off-white feathers. The burrowing owls prefer to live in plain, flat grasslands for they can catch their prey which are insects, rodents, and small lizards; they also use the grasslands to hide from predators such as coyotes, great horned owls… Read more…
Automobiles are more than just cars Automobiles have come a long way and have a storied history that leads to today. Nowadays, there are automobiles ranging from sports cars, to huge RVs, to models of electric powered, self-driving cars, along with an infinite amount of styles. Technically, the first real automobile, in 1885, was invented Read more…
Guy de Maupassant: Ironically Disturbing Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant was a prolific French writer of the mid-to-late 1800s writing some 300 short stories, six novels, three travelogues, and one volume of verse (a book of poetry). He published his first story, “Boule de Suif” or “Ball of Fat” in 1880 and it is Read more…
