Visual novels with animationOctober 11, 2021 – 09:10 am
What is Sable Fable? Sable Fable is a story. A story that hasn t yet fully made up its mind how it wants to be told, and so like a child full of wonder without limitations who wants to be an astronaut-journalist-moviestar-superhero when they grow up, Sable Fable wants to be a game-visualnovel-comic-movie-shortstory-EVERYTHING experience with exasperating enthusiasm. The world of storytelling in changing. It s easier than ever to combine mediums and…
What are Graphic Novels?September 21, 2021 – 09:08 am
Have you always wanted to read a YA graphic novel but you’re not sure where to start? Don’t worry, we got you covered with this curated reading list! The following graphic novels have been Epic Reads tested and approved for your bookshelf. And thus begins your adventure into the land of illustrated stories: 1.) Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent…
Popular novels of the 1990sSeptember 1, 2021 – 08:50 am
The 1990s was the last decade of the century and the millennium, and although science fiction has been around for centuries, it feels like the genre blossomed in the second half of the 20th century. By the last decade it feels fantasy flavored SF had overtaken hard science fiction in popular appeal, but many of the most successful science fiction books of the 1990s were about space travel. Vernor Vinge, Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons, and Peter F. Hamilton…
New novels by Stephen KingAugust 12, 2021 – 08:47 am
Return to the dark side … Stephen King, whose novel Revival will mark a return to the horror genre. Photograph: Steve Schofield It said: In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church … When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic…
Young Adult novels 2015July 23, 2021 – 08:42 am
2015 Finalists The Carnival at Bray written by Jessie Ann Foley, published by Elephant Rock Books. In 1993, the grunge movement is at its height and Maggie Lynch is living comfortably in Chicago, near Nanny Ei and Uncle Kevin, her musical guru. After her impulsive mother marries and moves the family to a tiny Irish village, Maggie struggles to adjust to the changing world around her. The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim written by E.K. Johnston…
Short Stories for studentsJuly 3, 2021 – 08:29 am
Check out these 5 Motivational and Inspiring short stories about life, stories that will make you smile. 1. Everyone Has a Story in Life A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted… “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed… “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The couple couldn’t resist and said…
Are novels double spacedJune 13, 2021 – 08:28 am
Much has changed along the journey from typewriters to setting type on computers. Still, there are a number of typewriting conventions that are no longer relevant but which stubbornly refuse to go away. At the top of this list is the practice of putting two spaces between sentences. Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong. Why…
