Author: Anne McCaffrey & Richard Woods Genre: Fantasy When I first started reading this book, I truly thought that it was a work of non-fiction. Anne McCaffrey tells the story of the result of a phonecall she receives one day at her home. A man asks her to impart her knowledge about dragons. After agreeing [...]

Genre: Comedy / Loathly Lady Motif Plot Outline: This is a story narrated by one of the Pilgrims from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. The story itself comes after a long prologue by the narrator, in which she describes her various husbands and her own sensibilities (or arguable lack thereof). The tale itself is about a knight [...]

We all remember book reports from school. Most of us remember the 6 questions we were taught to use to write these reports – who, what, when, where, how and why. And most of us hurried through these boring and sometimes painful reports just to get them done. One page, hand written, scratched out on [...]

Genre: Bildungsroman Plot Outline: The orphan Jane Eyre has none to call family except the cold Reeds, her cousins and her mothers’ sister-in-law. Later, she fares no better at the charity school of Lowood. After eight years at the institution, six as a pupil and to as a teacher, she takes up a position as [...]

Genre: Sci-Fi Plot Outline: Music student Killashandra Ree had been told that she could never play an operatic lead. In protest, she walked away from ten gruelling years of tuition…straight into the Hepitite guild of Ballybran, the home of Crystal Singers. For the few who managed to pass the test, being a Crystal Singer brought [...]