MANIX Week 6 - Fantasy.

Word cloud for Week 6 : Fantasy - click on any of the words to take a random journey to fantasyland I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow. ~ William KempeMost of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. ~ Laurell K. HamiltonThe road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. ~ Don Williams, JrI just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. ~ Tanith LeeIt's a very old story, one that goes back almost 2,000 years: a legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice. ~ Narrator, 'Fantasia'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ~ J.R.R. TolkienAnd I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound. ~ Poem 'Brut' by LayamonDouble, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. ~ Macbeth by William ShakespeareCome away, O human child!/To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ~ William Butler Yeats, 'The Stolen Child'...The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. ~ Camille PagliaDo not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ~ J.R.R. TolkienI write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down - the truth is much more bizarre. ~ Jackie CollinsThe vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. ~ Anne Rice Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~ Elynor Glyn Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar WildeThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert EinsteinI paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~ Pablo PicassoI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~ Michelangeloburning glances/nocturnal devotions/awaken the dreaming dead/bereft of vengeance ~ 'Conqueror wyrm' by Abigail WilliamsGnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... ~ Wings, Terry PratchettI can't believe that Godzilla was the only surviving member of its species... But if we continue conducting nuclear tests... it's possible that another Godzilla might appear somewhere in the world again. ~ Godzilla, 1954Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. ~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI betook myself to linking/Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore/What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore /Meant in croaking Nevermore. ~ 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

 

Fantasy

Welcome to Week 6: Fantasy!  All the links you'll need for booklists, website challenges and reviews are listed right here.

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Book list madness

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E-resource challenge

Challenge yourself with this week's e-resource: GALE Books and Authors helps you answer the question "What will I read next?". It features more than 100,000 highly recommended adult, young adult and children's fiction and nonfiction titles, and leads you to titles that are similar to something you've already enjoyed, award-winners, stories in particular genres and more.

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Website challenges

 

Review forms

* We encourage you read and review manga graphic novels, but please note, there are only a limited number of reviews you can do for EACH series (up to 3 titles from any one manga series). Please check with your Teen Librarian if you are unsure about whether a review will qualify for points or not.*

 

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