But just as readers who only had read Game would never be able to foretell the shadow assassin in Clash before the second book was released, so too will this essay miss much of GRRM’s gardening. Part One: Exp
All along the south coast of Cape Wrath rose crumbling stone watchtowers, raised in ancient days to give warning of Dornish raiders stealing in across the sea. Villages had grown up about the towers. A few had flowered into towns.
The show premiered in 2011, the same year Martin's fifth book in his "A Song of Fire and Ice" series was released. Fans have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for the sixth, "The Winds of Winter," ever since, and many wonder whether the 70-year-old author will live long e...
The recipe of that moment It's a story that takes life from the cocktail itself and its recipe. It's a story that consists of as many chapters as the elements that make up the Boulevardier. It's actually a series of short stories, and the description of a feeling, an emotion, or th...
Barristan Selmy chapter:The first of the Barristan Selmy chapters inThe Winds Of Winter, released as part of the US paperback ofA Dance With Dragons, tells of his preparing his men and the Unsullied for battle against the Yunkhai. We hear of Selmy’s prayers, preparations and speeches to...
This summary of events is drawn from several chapters of John Geiger and Alanna Mitchell Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus (Toronto: HarperCollins Pub. 2015). Ryan Harris, Parks Canada’s project lead on Erebus, provided an incredible guided tour of the wreck in Oct...
(taken in part from recently released secret intelligence reports), and the harsh realities of what people lived through, how they were inspired by churchill to carry on, and how churchill persevered to gain the us as an ally in this war. jenny lawson (2 books) “you are here: an ...
it is hard to shake the feeling that it was released solely to appease fans who are worried that Martin is nowhere near completing the sixth book. Martin was said to have been finishingA Dance with Dragonsas early as 2008 and chapters were said to be compl...
SPEAKING OF MY LONGER PROJECT … It’s still chugging along. April, I focused on drafting Act 1 & 2 chapters for POV character 2 and finished (shockingly) one day ahead of schedule. I say shockingly because two chapters in I realized I needed to revise nearly every scene I’d previously...
This takes me to the work of artist Simon Roberts who in 2020 released several posters that used notable British landmarks in a satirical campaign. I was delighted to spot some of his Welcome to Little Britain posters in the wild in Glasgow during a lockdown walk in 2021. These were ...