Monday, September 26, 2022

Something About Royal Vaults

Sounds better than a groin vault.

Monday, September 19, 2022

Something About Franchises

You may be adapted. Resistance may be futile.

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Banned Books Week 2022

Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International celebrating the freedom to read.  Prominent First Amendment and library activist Judith Krug founded the event 1982.  The late Ann LaPietra (1933-2007) - owner and operator of the kids' place book store in Marshall, Michigan, and the creator of the John Bellairs Walk - was also a supporter of First Amendment rights and was known to create visual displays within her bookstore in support of Banned Books Week.

The 2022 celebration is September 18 to 24.

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Book Alert: The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows

The Johnny Dixon series continues - nearly 40 years after it began - as a flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic:

Monday, September 12, 2022

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Something About Holyrood, Edinburgh

Crossing Britaine's Other Eye.

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Something About Monarchs

Crown dependency.