I'm not ashamed to say that I like kids' books. You can say a lot in and with a children's book that's worth saying. Maybe more than anything, the typically simpler language and character arcs of children's literature (and I don't mean that pejoratively) often allow for valuable and rewarding examinations of interpersonal relationships. R. J. Palacio's [...]
Tag: Books
A Question of Reality
I've read three books and a couple of stories by Philip K. Dick, most recently The Man In the High Castle, and in each and every one of them there is some debate over what is and is not 'real.' This occurs most famously in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, upon which the film Blade [...]
Made for the Screen
I had probably seen The Prince Bride (the movie) about twenty times before I realized that it more than just a brilliant Rob Reiner project and was actually based upon The Princess Bride (the book) by William Goldman. I was an ignorant child. So now, twenty odd years after I first fell in love with the film, [...]
Immersed In the Clouds
Immersion is the goal. It doesn't matter which medium you're talking about. Art should suck you in, make you feel a part of another world so that you see its colors, feel its turmoil, and speak its tongues. In your mind, at least, the fiction should become the real. If that sounds more than a tad [...]
Songs & Stories 