Category Archives: dystopian worlds

My Un-scholarly Book Pile

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Patricia Kiyono

Our Tuesday fox posed this question: “Is there a book that you have always wanted to read but never have? What has stopped you from reading it?” There are countless titles that I could list to answer the first question. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, cozy mystery, dystopian worlds, favorite books, hobbies, horror stories, lifestyles, novels, Patricia Kiyono, personal libraries, reading, reading preferences, TBR List, time management | Tagged best-sellers, classic literature, reading for pleasure, reading lists | 12 Comments

A Library By Any Other Name…

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Tonette Joyce

What is a ‘library’? My grandson asked me to read a YA book, the first of a series. It started out not much to my taste, (unlike so many other he has chosen), but it picked up to be interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in America, authors, Books, dystopian worlds, favorites, libraries, Miscellaneous, novels, protagonists, reading, research, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged borrowing books, collections, history of books, history of libraries, libraries | 4 Comments

Misuse of Terminology

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Tonette Joyce

After busy months of becoming a freshman in high school in a new town, my grandson finally got back into his reading groove and back to having me reading a series with him. After the mostly tame and always ‘bad-guys-become-good’ … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, book review, Books, characters, dystopian worlds, imagination, Miscellaneous, phrases, reading, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, traditions, villains, writing | Tagged Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Demons, Harry Potter, Leo Tolstoy, Midgrade books, mythological creatures, Percy Jackson, Septimus Heap, speed-reading, Taran Matharu, The Battlemage, The Inquisition, The Novice, The Summoner Trilogy, War and Peace, Woody Allen quote, YA books | 10 Comments

Walker Percy’s Thanatos Syndrome

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Jeff Salter

Percy’s Look at a Dystopian Society By Jeff Salter I can’t claim that Walker Percy ever used the term “dystopian” to describe this novel or its prequel, but this pair of novels is what I thought of when we received … Continue reading →

Posted in America, authors, book review, characters, dystopian worlds, Jeff Salter, Miscellaneous | Tagged Love in the Ruins, Thanatos Syndrome, Thomas More, Walker Percy | 12 Comments

Give Me a Happy Ending, Please

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Patricia Kiyono

This week, one of the foxes asked about our favorite dystopian world. I’ll confess I had to look up the term, because I wasn’t quite sure what dystopian meant. Oxforddictionaries.com defines dystopia as “an imagined place or state in which … Continue reading →