Welcome to the Fantasy Literature Bookclub
Founding members of this club:
* Kristin Lee (email: KLEE1@drew.edu)
* Lori Reiter (email: LREITER@drew.edu)
* Amanda Meys (email: AMEYS@drew.edu)
* Pat Mooney (email: PMOONEY@drew.edu)
* Nicole Arias (email: NARIAS@drew.edu)
Statement of purpose
One day, we may come at a crossroads in our life where we feel we have to "grow-up," let go of our childish thoughts and dreams, our imaginary friends, and leave the magical worlds that entertained us as children behind. We feel we need to move on to the facts and be logical, mature. However, we need not lose our imagination in this process. It introduced us to new worlds, and thus began our curiosity and creativivty. Imagination can explain the unexplainable, make possible the impossible, and allow us to revisit our childhood. Albert Einstein, the most famous theoretical physicist in history, once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Those words ring so true, and this book club is the perfect place to continue exploring one's imagination.
Books the club might read
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
(www.bn.com)
Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over—benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today’s finest writers of fantastic fiction for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature. This companion to the World Fantasy Award–winner and Locus bestseller The Green Man is edgy, provocative, and thoroughly magical. Like the faeries themselves.
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
(www.bn.com)
One of our most universal myths is that of the Green Man—the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over thirty anthologies, have gathered some of today's finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Folklorist and artist Charles Vess brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth. The Green Man is required reading—not only for fans of fantasy fiction but for those interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #1) by Douglas Adams
(www.bn.com)
Don't leave Earth without this hilarious international bestseller about the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow...about the worst Thursday that ever happened and why the Universe is a lot safer if you bring a towel. A British earthling is plucked from his planet, and we witness his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
(www.bn.com)
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearting, a cart of scavenged food-and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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