Category Archives: Reading

Children’s Fantasy Review Part 3

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

The original trio: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz See Part 2 of this series here. Okay, so they’re not the original children’s novels. Even if you toss out the fairy tales as a … Continue reading →

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Children’s Fantasy Review Part 2

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

Divine intervention: The Horse and His Boy and A Wrinkle in Time See part 1 of this series here. The Horse and His Boy is my favorite book of the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, a series now … Continue reading →

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Children’s Fantasy Review Part 1

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

Things happen at random: The Phantom Tollbooth and Mary Poppins The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster and Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers are two of the classics of children’s fantasy literature. Like much children’s fantasy, both books tell the … Continue reading →

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Children’s fantasy literature review: Introduction

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

Children’s books are very much a genre of their own–or rather multiple genres, since they can be realist or literary fiction, mysteries, fantasy, history, or (almost) any other adult genre, plus the different age groups: chapter books (ages 6-10), middle … Continue reading →

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Bible reading redux

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

At the beginning of the year, I posted my plan to read the Bible cover to cover this year. I felt unsatisfied with the various Bible in a year plans that can be found on the Internet, so I designed … Continue reading →

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Reading the Bible

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Alex R. Howe

I have read every part of the Bible at least twice and probably a majority of it three times. But one thing I have not done is to read the whole thing cover to cover in order. So I decided … Continue reading →

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How to be a writer: getting feedback

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Alex R. Howe

So you wrote something. Great! Maybe it’s a short story. Maybe it’s a novel. Maybe it’s an epic 300,000-word tome (although if it is, you might have some issues). It’s always good when you can finish a project, but now … Continue reading →

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