![]() ![]() Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon. She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends - Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Over the years she turned more to fantasy The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was 'fantasy undiluted'. ![]() She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. ![]() in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When Jenny attends college, she meets a young man named Victor at a bookstore. ![]() Jenny will only later come to be diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder. Although Jenny later comes to attend high school with kids she has known all her life, she feels like a misfit and is very awkward in social situations. For example, her father once made a puppet out of a recently killed raccoon, an event which traumatized Jenny for years. Jenny grows up in West Texas with a patient, kind mother and a father whom Jenny lovingly describes as crazy. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir is written by Jenny Lawson, a well-known blogger who writes under the name The Bloggess. Note: This study guide specifically refers to the March, 2013, Berkley Trade Paperback Edition of Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson. ![]() ![]() The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace.Īnd there’s more dysfunctional goodness where that came from.The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties…on the corpses of their enemies.The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone.Normally I try to avoid profanity in my book reviews, but when the subtitle of the book is a no- guide to world mythology, it’s a battle already lost. Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O’Brien is book of modernized versions of more than 50 myths and legends from around the world.Skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O’Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. ![]() In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified…wait, it all makes sense now. ![]() ![]() Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.Īnd Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face.Īll our lives, we’ve been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. ![]() Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. 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Anyone familiar with the series (especially the 80s anime rather than the newer adaptation which keeps closer to the books but hasn't advanced much beyond the first) will know Legend of the Galactic Heroes as a rather ponderous, complex epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() This page turner is full of action right up to the end, though the descriptive details of the alien war will leave some squeamish. The Garde members have to quickly determine who they can trust while planning their attack to save the planet that has sheltered them from the Mogadorians. Meanwhile, the world’s militaries have offered their services to the Garde to fight the final battle. ![]() The Garde members feel a responsibility to protect the teens. Human teenagers now are equipped with their own legacies, but are vulnerable to their own governments and the Mog army. The power of the Garde's home planet has been released on Earth, which means this time, the Garde is not alone. RELATED: 'Moo' shares humor in rural living RELATED: Author with cerebral palsy writes with his head ![]() ![]() Brought together in previous books, the group has tried to defeat Setrakus Ra and his army only to be forced to retreat. In this science fiction series, teenagers, in a group called the Garde, were evacuated from their home planet when the neighboring planet, the Mogadorians, attacked. For fans of the I Am Number Four series, the final epic battle to win or lose Earth to the Mogadorians and their great leader, Setrakus Ra, is a long-awaited finale. ![]() ![]() His rich dragon blood tempts her into an affair, which could not only jeopardize her career but possibly her life.ĭetermined to find out who killed his best friend, Scott poses as a struggling artist to help the Dragon Center investigate a corrupt art dealer. On her first assignment, her job is to protect sculptor, Scott VanHorn. As leader of the Dragon Center, he has to find answers and Amanda holds the keys to everything he needs.ĭragon Center agent, Dee Butterfield, finally has the job she’s always longed for. ![]() Yet the political unrest of the Dragon blood sector of the population is driving him to search for answers to the declining birth rate of the group. With strong desires, he finds the perfect mate in Amanda. William VanHorn is a determine politician that has black Dragon’s blood running through his body. After two marriages, she doesn’t believe there is a man that can give her what she truly wants a child. ![]() ![]() This is a sample book for Black Dragon's SeriesĪmanda Spencer is a woman haunted by her first husband’s murder and determined to find his killer. ![]() ![]() Othello is the only black character and an outsider in Venice brings upon many insecurities. However, the core of these problems and his main tragic flaw is his insecurities. There are many undesirable traits in Othello, like his jealousy and gullibility. ![]() Othello is a tragic hero because of his tragic flaw. Othello’s nobility is quite evident, however, he does have traits that can be viewed as tragic flaws. These traits are greatly admired among characters of Othello including Iago who admits that Othello is “of a constant loving, noble nature will prove to Desdemona A most dear husband” (2.1.290-292). Although he is sometimes portrayed as violent, Othello’s loving nature can be seen in instances such as when he speaks about Desdemona. Othello, despite coming from a rough past, is an honorable war hero and the general of the Venetian army.Īlong with his social stature, Othello also has a noble heart. Othello can be considered a noble character because he is one of high social ranking and he has a genuine heart. 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