Instead of stopping our hearts, we played music Because we're rock stars We come together and we work and we fall apart I play music because I'm in love with silence and sound.

by Ray Bradbury



Pip is the kind of kid that you always want along when you're setting off on an adventure. Anything, really, is an adventure when he's along. But tonight--Halloween!--he's not coming along for the night. He's sans costume and looking pale. What's wrong with Pip? And is there anything that can be done to save him? Pip sends the other boys ahead to the house with a Halloween tree--pumpkins and pumpkins hung high and grinning with flickering lights. Mr. Moundshroud is… Continue

by Stephen Greenblatt



Shakespeare is a towering figure in the literary world, still casting a long shadow even more than four hundred years after his death. Or rather, his name is so tied to his works--his words--that everyone who has ever seen Juliet speak the lines, "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" knows of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare the man, however, is a dim figure. So little is known about him that some historians question whether the works of Shakespeare were… Continue

by Neil Gaiman



Twelve-year-old Timothy Hunter is offered a choice: To travel through time and space, viewing the past, future, and worlds of magic, or go on skateboarding through ordinary life in this collection of the first four Books of Magic. Reminiscent of Gaiman's Sandman comics--indeed, we meet several of the Endless and other familiar characters--following Timothy's adventures with a different guide for each book is at the same time a dim echo compared to the intense… Continue

by Scott McCloud



Scott McCloud delivers a friendly, developed answer to the question, "What IS comics?" Beginning with the definition of comics as, "Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence," McCloud takes the reader through what he calls the vocabulary of comics, the closure of transactions, timing, what happens between frames, how words and pictures can work together, the making process, color in comics, before drawing the conclusion that comics are an ever… Continue

by Georgy R. R. Martin



The Starks of Winterfell, once Kings of the North generations ago, are now part of a larger kingdom and swear fealty to King Robert in the south. After living uninterrupted at Winterfell, the family is pulled in different directions after a royal visit. Lord Eddard goes south with the king; his bastard son Jon Snow is sent out to join the the black men keeping guard against the north. Lady Catelyn takes a dangerous journey with unexpected results while her son… Continue