I found Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown ages ago and in all the time since I’ve not found a single person who has even heard of it. The book was my first introduction into fantasy with a strong female lead. Her name is Aerin and she becomes a dragon slayer. She lived her whole life with a story that her mom was a witch who had seduced ( Read more... )

This community is making me all nostalgic. There's actually quite a few of these I've heard of and even read/seen. :)

Anyway, two books I thought I'd mention:

First one, called Tajore Arkle, by Jackie French. Published in '99. According to the Author: "Tajore Arkle is the secret world I lived in from about the age of three to 14. It's a world where ( Read more... )

I am a huge fan of fairy tales. No, not the Disney-fied ones, the older, creepier ones, where happy endings are few and far between and bad things happen to bad people. As such, I am -also- a fan of assorted fairy tale retellings. So I figured I'd tell you about a couple of them, especially as one of them has the next book in the series coming out ( Read more... )

Here's a challenge - I can't remember the name of the book or even the author, but I remember reading way back in the day (about 1980) a sci-fi/fantasy book that involved a futuristic universe where people would travel to other planets, and the book begins on what was known as a pleasure planet (kind of like an Earth-sized Disneyland).  I think it ( Read more... )

New member here, I'd heard about this community before but only got around to joining when you got spotlighted. I don't have very many things to talk about, but I have a few.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks--This is about the top of the obscurity scale as far as Disney movies go, anyway. It's a partly live-action, partly animated musical set in England ( Read more... )