The Good Place is an easy show to binge, with only 13 half-hour episodes each season. That being said this article CONTAINS SPOILERS, small ones in the first part and a big one later on. I will put another warning before it. Go watch Season One and come back when you’re done.
Spinning Silver is Naomi Novik’s follow-up to Uprooted, a book that I read last summer and loved. It’s easy to say that I loved this book, too. Rather than one heroine, it has three.
Spinning Silver takes place in Lithvas, a small country beset by ever worsening winters, the type that linger long into spring and ruin crops. They aren’t natural winters, either. The cold is caused by the Staryk (strange ice-people). The Staryk use the cold to enter Lithvas from their world and raid it for its gold. Everyone fears them and it seems that nothing can be done to halt their advance.
There has been a recent trend of rebooting ’80s and ’90s cartoons. A standout reboot, at least for me, is the 2017 reboot of DuckTales.
DuckTales was high on my list of after-school viewing, but even higher for my brother. He’s a big fan of Scrooge McDuck. In the run-up to the reboot there was a graphic novel origin story for Scrooge, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, that I knew would be a great gift for him.
There are plenty of movies that are based on books. Sometimes they change a lot of things, sometimes only a few. Sometimes the project works, sometimes it doesn’t. Clueless is an example of a movie that was successful in adapting it’s source material, Emma by Jane Austen. There was a major setting change from Regency England to 1990’s Beverly Hills, but a surprising amount kept true to the original novel.
I already had a basic Hogwarts student cosplay. But, I wanted something a little bit more interesting. I decided to do a Ravenclaw Quidditch outfit. I only had about seven weeks to get the whole thing together and wanted to spend as little money as possible. This meant that I had to push all of my costume making skills to their limits.
The main character is a young woman named Luvander. She may be a dragon in disguise, or a half dragon, or maybe possessed by a dragon. It’s left a little vague. A flashback with a young Luvander and a dragon, and some unusual talents are most of the information we get. Luvander does tell one of her companions that she’ll explain later, perhaps in the next volume.
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