This is a pretty atypical post for me, but I’m excited, so who cares! Today is the release day for Shami Stovall’s fifth installment in the Frith Chronicles, called World Serpent Arcanist. You can find the Amazon listing here! For the record, I am not being paid to promote this book, author, or series, I’m […]
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Volke and his friends are now all apprentices under Master Zelfree. Traveling with the Frith Guild, the apprentices are gaining more ground with magic. But when visiting an island known for its griffin bonding ceremonies, the group learns about a pirate crew that intentionally inflicted the arcane plague on a grown griffin. With the name […]
Introduction: Pirate vs. Privateer vs. Sailor So I’m going to start this post with a quick and dirty rundown of what makes a pirate a pirate. Pirates are unauthorized crews that usually plunder other ships for their living. Pirates are distinct from privateers, who tend to do the same (plundering ships for a living) because […]
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ScallyWagAThon TBR!
ScallyWagAThon: August 16th – 23rd Hello there book bees! Welcome to my TBR for the ScallyWagAThon! This readathon is about following a map of prompts and completing at least four prompts to complete the readathon. You can check out this twitter account for more information including the map and list of prompts! TBR: Prompt One: […]
A mysterious book. A creepy kidnapping. A ghostly pirate on the loose. Researching ideas for a pirate story, 12-year-old Jeff and his pal Suzi uncover a mysterious book that reveals weirdly moving images of a scary pirate captain. After an old movie appears to replicate the images, one of Jeff’s teachers is kidnapped, prompting the […]
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Discussion: Pirate Literature
Hello Book Bees and welcome to another discussion post! This one is about the genre known as Pirate Literature, also called Transatlantic literature. Don’t worry, I’ll be getting into all the definitions you need as well as giving you some book recs if you’re interested in this genre but not quite sure where to begin. […]
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Review: Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Published first as a serial and then as a novel with continued short stories, Sabatini’s Captain Blood follows the tradition of transatlantic pirate literature in which roguish men wronged by the tyrannical monarchs they live under are forced from their homes and into a life of piracy. With many events in the story taken from […]
Cups and Cards and Books 