Stephen King’s Wizard and Glass performs one of the riskier moves in long-form fiction: it pauses a high-stakes, momentum-driven quest to deliver a sustained, inward-facing romance and tragedy. The result is not a detour but a structural and moral fulcrum for the entire Dark Tower sequence. Where the earlier volumes often read like a hybrid of the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3) by Stephen King
Stephen King’s The Waste Lands occupies a strange, energizing middle ground in The Dark Tower sequence: part picaresque road novel, part decaying-epic, part horror-of-technology, and entirely a work that insists on being read as both pulp and parable. If the first two volumes establish Roland of Gilead’s relentless compass and begin to assemble his unlikely fellowship, The Waste Lands is the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3) by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King
Stephen King’s The Drawing of the Three is the strange, bruised middle voice of a quest cycle: less a tidy bridge than a widening of horizons where the stoic landscape of The Gunslinger meets the noisy, bruising textures of late-20th-century America. If the first volume staged Roland of Gilead’s single-minded pursuit in a bleak western tableau, the second book … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” That opening sentence is almost a programmatic summons: spare, inexorable, and immediately mythic. The Gunslinger announces itself as a story of pursuit and of destiny, and Stephen King’s first volume of The Dark Tower cycle repays a close, patient reading by readers who are willing to accept … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
In The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King turns his prodigious storytelling gifts toward a courtly fantasy tale, diverging sharply from the horror for which he is best known. Originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction(1984–85) and later published as a standalone novel in 1987, this work reimagines King’s narrative impulses within the conventions … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
In Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third instalment of Clive Barker’s phantasmagoric series, Barker plunges deeper into the mythic archipelago of Abarat, conjuring a narrative both sumptuous and sinister. This volume marks a tonal shift from its predecessors: the whimsical surrealism of the first two books hardens into an apocalyptic urgency. The result is a meditation not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
In the sprawling, vividly imagined sequel to Abarat, Clive Barker continues his ambitious journey into the archipelagic world of the Abarat, a place where every island represents a different hour of the day. Days of Magic, Nights of War is a work of dizzying invention, yet it is not invention for its own sake. Rather, Barker constructs a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat by Clive Barker
A Tapestry of Dreams and Nightmares In Abarat, Clive Barker crafts not merely a novel but a sprawling, mythopoeic world — a fantastical cartography where each island represents an hour of the day and night. At once a young adult epic and a profound meditation on time, creativity, and identity, Abarat transcends its genre conventions through Barker’s singular … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Abarat by Clive Barker
Isolation Fantasy Blues #9
I've started teetering over the edge of boredom and the need to do something is growing into a near frenzy! With dozens of pages left to fill from the music sheets, chosen for these pastel drawings... well, here are a few more... staying with the fantasy of being able to live with quiet, if I … Continue reading Isolation Fantasy Blues #9
Isolation Fantasy Blues #5
I've started teetering over the edge of boredom and the need to do something is growing into a near frenzy! With dozens of pages left to fill from the music sheets, chosen for these pastel drawings... well, here are a few more... staying with the fantasy of being able to live with quiet, if I … Continue reading Isolation Fantasy Blues #5
The New Renaissance Mindset 