fantasy
Books to read if you enjoyed ‘House of the Dragon’
Like A Song of Ice and Fire, The Priory of the Orange Tree is told from the perspective of many different characters in various parts of the world, with different loyalties, religions, ranks, and abilities.
Percy Jackson fans, mount your horses
The new book’s title, revealed to be Percy Jackson and The Chalice Of The Gods, will be out on September 26, 2023, the author confirmed via Twitter.
Books to read if you enjoyed ‘House of the Dragon’
Like A Song of Ice and Fire, The Priory of the Orange Tree is told from the perspective of many different characters in various parts of the world, with different loyalties, religions, ranks, and abilities.
Love, fate, and age-old curses: 'The Book of Magic' by Alice Hoffman
The familial bond portrayed in the novel makes it easy to sympathise with the characters and they rarely seem woven in a piece of fiction; rather, their attributes are more lifelike and one may just find someone like Franny or Gillian Owens among their kith and kin.
Fanfiction and the art of retelling stories
Fanfiction is just a devoted fan's mind asking, "What if?"
How Jules Verne’s ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ got me through typhoid
Jules Verne opened my eyes to the wonderful world of science-fiction, a world where the pinnacle of human imagination meets the beauty of the known.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’—One series to fail them all?
What point is Lord of the Rings making in 2022? That people are racist and wage wars? The original trilogy, from two decades ago, was making that same point.
The dangerous game of Marlon James—Can genre fiction be great literature?
James seems to be saying to the establishment, to the same generous folks who once gave him the Booker and propelled him to the stratosphere: Go ahead and say this is not literature, I dare you.
The Fantasy of an Empty Dhaka
One recurring discourse in Dhaka, especially before and after Eid holidays, is that of an “empty” city.