Roxana-Mălina Chirilă

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Neil Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" [Book Review]

Title: The Ocean at the End of the Lane Author: Neil Gaiman Rating: 5/5 Is this book for me? Yes. It takes a certain amount of magic to make you not realize that the main character has no name until you need to write the review. He is a man in his late forties, early fifties, driving down the lane where he used to live as a child. There was a funeral.

Free award-winning fantasy prose from Tor

I’ve only just seen this today, but the awesome Tor.Com, one of the biggest short fantasy stories publishers out there, is giving away a free mega-book of the award-winning prose they’ve been posting on their site for five years. I’ve just downloaded my copy and it’s huge. I mean it. You should have a few extra hundred MB for the .pdf and the .mobi is well over 100 MB as well.

Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" [Book Review]

Title: The Hunger Games

Series: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins

Rating: 4.5/5

Is this book for me? Unless you’re averse to sci fi/fantasy, the answer is probably yes. Easy to read, but not lacking in deeper issues. Well-paced, action-filled, with believable characters. Gripping.

Recomandări de cursuri gratis :D

În continuare sunt complet îndrăgostită de Coursera. Mi-au plăcut diverse cursuri de la facultate, am înțeles mai multe decât mi-au plăcut, dar acum mă distrez făcând tot felul de cursuri interesante, bine explicate și mișto. Așa că vă recomand și vouă ce e interesant în perioada asta (înscrierea e gratis și chestiile astea Merită): History of Rock, Part I – un curs ținut de John Covach, de la University of Rochester, despre istoria rocului.