Tag Archives: Fantasy

Happy birthday to the Bagginses of Bag End

Posted on September 23, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 Mr. Tolkien was good enough to assign the birthday of two of my favorite fictional characters to the day when Autumn, my favorite season, generally starts. There’s poetry there, I think. Happy birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! Share This Post

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Recent Reading!

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 It’s been a while since I posted an update on books I’ve been reading, so here’s a bit of catch-up! ::  Edge of Sundown is a noir-mystery set in Chicago, by indie writer Jennifer Worrell. A writer who was once a … Continue reading →

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Recent Book Notes!

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 Here’s some recent reading I’ve done! I don’t have pictures of the covers, unfortunately. (Several of them I forgot to snapshot before I whisked them back to the library.) ::  Maybe you didn’t know that you needed a graphic novel … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: Space wizards, zombie apocalypses, reflections of Paris, universes ending, and a LOTR-but-not-LOTR fantasy

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 A few more books I’ve read of late: ::  I can’t possibly keep up with the eternal flood of new books that is Star Wars publishing, but I do try to pick and choose the ones that sound good or come … Continue reading →

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2021 in the Books: Beethoven, Merlin, and the Hardy Boys meet Veronica Mars

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 Here’s some of my recent reading! ::  Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe is simply superb. I wanted to get this one done in time to blog about it during 2020, but getting it done this year is fine. While … Continue reading →

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From the books: THE HIGH KING

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

Today, a passage from one of many books that my mother required me to read in moments when my behavior wasn’t the best. Actually, though–this isn’t from one of those books, but a book downstream in the series that she … Continue reading →

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Travels Along the Yellow Brick Road

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Kelly Sedinger

I suppose I am hardly unique among Americans in that The Wizard of Oz has been a part of my life almost as long as I can remember. I grew up during that hazy prehistory when the only way to … Continue reading →

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From the Books: Ursula K. Le Guin on Tolkien

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Author Ursula K. Le Guin has died. Calling Le Guin an “author” is true, but it doesn’t do her justice, and that’s coming from one who has not read nearly enough of her work. Not even close. Le Guin was … Continue reading →

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From the Books: THE COMING OF THE KING

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

So yesterday I saw a New York Times article linked on Twitter in which apparently some members of former European aristocracy are starting to raise the notion that maybe, just maybe, world problems might be helped somewhat by a return … Continue reading →

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From the Books: THE RETURN OF THE KING

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

It’s JRR Tolkien’s birthday! Tolkien is, naturally, one of my favorite of all authors. He wasn’t my first foray into epic fantasy–that would be Lloyd Alexander–but Tolkien cemented my love of that genre for keeps. He is, for me, as … Continue reading →

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