Tag: Fantasy

Review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

March 11, 2013 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

I loved Snow White when I was little, I dressed up as her on a regular basis, held Snow White themed birthday parties and learned how to work a VCR (yes I’m that old) and when I wasn’t watching it, I could recite it word for word.  Okay, so I was obsessed with Snow White […]

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Book Review: The Two Towers

November 5, 2012 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Book Review: The Two Towers

Book Three We begin with t he Fellowship broken, Sam and Frodo are off to Mordor, Boromir is dead, Merry and Pippen have been taken by Orcs with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli following their trail. In the first half, we flip-flop from the kidnapped hobbits and the three companions.  Even though they are under brutal, […]

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Book Review: The Fellowship of the Ring

September 18, 2012 Whitney Review 4 Comments
Book Review: The Fellowship of the Ring

Book One: We begin in Hobbiton, in preparation for Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, exhibiting all that is good, clean (and a little odd) in other words what is worth fighting for — a very clever and fun opening to a novel.  Although the night slowly becomes dark from there.  After Bilbo’s sudden disappearance and Frodo’s inheritance of […]

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Review: The Horse and His Boy

July 8, 2012 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Review: The Horse and His Boy

I read The Horse and His Boy a few years ago and remember thinking that this installment did nothing to add to The Chronicle’s storyline.  After rereading it, I realized how wrong I was.  Shasta and his horse Bree travel from Tashbaan to Narnia almost like someone immigrating to the United States in hopes of […]

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Book Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

May 29, 2010 Whitney Review 9 Comments
Book Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I like this book, but at the same time I didn’t.  I think this is because some of the magical creatures such as the talking china dolls were unnecessary and got in the way for the real reason of the story, to get Dorothy back to Kansas with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.  Even so, […]

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Review: Wicked

May 14, 2010 Whitney Review 7 Comments
Review: Wicked

Review Was the Wicked Witch of the West truly Wicked, or just a misunderstood green girl?   This is the question asked while trying to uncover the root of true evil. Elphaba is born “damaged” being green, and seems to know more of what is going on around her than she lets on.  While growing up […]

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