#jeff-king
#jeff-king
[ follow ]
#dunk-and-egg #a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms #stephen-king #house-of-the-dragon #game-of-thrones #podcast
#stephen-king
Silicon Valley food
fromTasting Table
1 month agoThe 'Poor Man's' Sandwich Stephen King Characters And Social Media Can't Resist - Tasting Table
The peanut butter and onion sandwich, featured in Stephen King's 'It,' originated during the Great Depression as an affordable, nutritious staple before becoming a social media curiosity.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoKeith O'Brien talks about his latest book, 'Heartland'
You know, this story is a bit different, right? We always do the Bird-Magic thing where we combine the narratives of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. And really, what I wanted to do with this book was just tilt the camera a little bit differently, change that perspective and zoom in on that origin story in rural Indiana in the 1970s.
LA Clippers
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoThe best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup
Three novels blend historical settings with fantastical elements: Jordan's memory-technology narrative spanning centuries, Sullivan's werewolf tale rooted in 18th-century France, and Mitchison's reimagined fairytale featuring an orphaned princess raised by magical creatures.
LA Kings
fromInverse
1 month agoA Star Wars Writer Is Writing A Game Of Thrones Movie - But There's A Catch
Game of Thrones franchise expands with multiple projects in development, including a theatrical film about Aegon's Conquest written by Beau Willimon, competing with another Aegon's Conquest project by Mattson Tomlin.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoThe Goodness Test: Dunk, Baelor, and Why Heroes Still Matter
For decades, we smallfolk have been told that goodness is naïve, that moral grayness is sophistication, and cynicism is cleverness. Turns out, we do not want it. Most of us can only take an endless string of villains, liars, and normalized nastiness for so long. Our battered nervous systems want a hero to root for who would not lie to us or betray us.
Miscellaneous
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoWhy some of us build entire worlds inside our heads and then feel homesick for places that never existed - Silicon Canals
Elaborate inner worlds built through imagination are common cognitive features that fulfill emotional needs, characterized by specific details and consistent logic that can persist for decades.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoI could never hope to equal it again': Jeffrey Archer announces next novel will be his last
When I came across the idea for this novel a few years ago, I knew it was bigger in scope than anything I'd done before and I accepted that the research alone would be more demanding than anything I'd tackled in the past. When I finally sat down to write Adam and Eve I also realised, by the end of the first draft, that this was going to be my final novel,
Books
fromInverse
2 months agoWho Is Aegon? 'Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms' Shocking Twist, Explained
At long last, the secret behind Egg has been revealed. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now half over, but now viewers have learned the squire's true identity, something readers of the original Tales of Dunk and Egg books have known from the start. But what does this new secret mean for the future of the show - and the future of Westeros itself? The answer is a lot more complicated than you may think.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoThe best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup
Subsequently, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, surviving on food they could catch or grow, with occasional forays into the towns below. Riley has heard the rumours, but it is only when she sees a green-clad boy or is it a girl? hovering outside her bedroom window offering directions on how to find Nowhere that she realises this might be her chance to escape and save her little brother from their sadistic guardian.
Books
[ Load more ]