Booked

I have always loved the dystopian genre. I think what the author writes reflects how they view our world and what they think will come of it. Books like these have always captivated me as they transport my imagination into a potential version of the world I see today. This month I read Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and it led me to question how I believe the world will change in the future. Personally, I believe that unless the majority/ the entire human race changes our way of living we are going to destroy our earth. With that being said I also believe that our earth is on an undefined time limit, meaning that sooner or later our earth will end/ it won't exist anymore whether that is due to climate change and pollution or some other unidentified threat. In the maze runner there was a disease outbreak which eventually led to an apocalypse like world where there was a dictatorship and a rebellion. This view of how our world could unfold made me think about how human actions speci...

      I recently saw a blog post about rereading books, and how enjoyable it can be. This idea is one that I share, and I often reread books that I have enjoyed in the past. I decided after reading that blog post that it was about time I read the Harry Potter series again. I have read this series too many times to count, but almost all of them were in a very short span of time, when I was much younger. Did the magical experience still hold up?     It did. I found myself staying up late night after night reading, and instead of playing videogames in my free time, my nose was stuffed deep into the world of Harry Potter. Just ten minutes ago I finished reading the final book in the series, and I felt very accomplished indeed. This is one series that will never get old for me.      One thing that I found interesting as I was reading was comparing and contrasting my experience of the book now vs. then. When I first read Harry Potter, there was a lot ab...

Why didn't Armando Dippet assassinate Hitler?  I touch on that one later. In other news,      I love urban fantasy. It's great! You can expore the infinite possibilites of magic in the familiar framework of our world. And that's really fun, because magic is fun.      But, if you're some variety of masochist and regularly read what I spew out, you'll know that I put a lot of stock into worldbuilding. And unfortunately, urban fantasy is really, really hard to worldbuild convincingly.      The most important factor in urban fantasy worldbuilding is the question of "how public is the magic?" (in the rest of this blog post, I'll be using "magic" as a catch-all term for fantastical elements in urban fantasy. Sometimes urban fantasy takes the Men in Black route where the magic is actually aliens or something similarly sci-fi, but it has essentially the same impact)      The publicity of magic is rarely a sliding scale; it's almo...