Alliance: The Paladin Prophecy Book 2 Mark Frost Random House Release Date: January 7, 2014 ISBN 978-0-375-87046-7 Adventure/fantasy lit for young readers is really hot right now. Really hot. I’m not talking the young adult supernatural vampires and werewolves or zombies material – I mean stories where kids, sometimes barely […]
Parade Magazine conducted an enlightening interview with Brown Coat/Castle actor Nathan Fillion on his love of books. According to the piece, Fillion says his love of the written word comes from his English teacher parents: Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.