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With the 2014 Skin Game, we come to the current conclusion of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels. True to form, Skin Game includes devastating...
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So, now we have reached the conclusion to Rick Riordan’s first series. With his 2009 novel The Last Olympian completed, so is Riordan’s warm-up...
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Welcome back to my second article unwrapping the Tony-winning musical Hadestown. Previously we’ve discussed how Anaïs Mitchell included politics in her magnus opus. Now...
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With Cold Days, we enter a new phase of the Dresden Files. Instead of a lone operator occasionally obligated to help the White Council...
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We’ve reached the penultimate book of Rick Riordan’s first series, The Battle of the Labyrinth. This 2008 book continues some of the threads that...
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With 8 wins at the Tony awards, Anaïs Mitchell’s new musical Hadestown burst into the public consciousness. With her retelling of the Orpheus and...
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Harry Dresden has been alive. He’s been dead. Now, because the universe hates him, he enters a new phase of life – being a...
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So we come to The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan’s third novel, published in 2007. Here, things become more complicated, as characters take and lose...
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Everything changes. Nowhere in the Dresden Files is this more true than in the 2010 Changes. This is the pivot on which the entire...
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Riordan starts to weave new themes into his series from this point on. While The Lightning Thief did okay on issues of representation, Sea...