AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Quest.Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.Boo the World's Cutest Dog Volume 1 by Kristen Deacon.It's All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot.What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi.The Memory of After by Lenore Appelhans.I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It.The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside Nort.We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adi.Geek-Art: An Anthology: Art, Design, Illustration.Splurge and get the hard copy - you'll be glad you did! I read this in EPUB and many of the images were cut off halfway, which spoiled the overall effect of the book.
If you do choose to purchase this book, though, don't go with the ebook. For an adult who loves fantasy or historical romance, it's quite useful in providing a visual concept for how many of your favorite fictional settings might have looked. Even though it's a children's book, Macaulay uses many difficult terms, so I'm not actually sure how child-friendly this book is, or whether a child would actually have any interest in it beyond using it as a secondary resource for a history project. He includes helpful illustrations, maps, and blueprints to illustrate more complex and detailed concepts. Macaulay goes into all the steps of building a castle, from the outer wall to the fortifications to the construction of the bathrooms. While the castle itself may be purely make-believe, the descriptions of how it was built were not. I checked it out immediately.ĬASTLE is an account of a fictional Welsh castle called Aberwyvern. Imagine my delight when I find out that my library has a copy of it in their e-book library. Now that I've gotten into fantasy novels and bodice rippers, CASTLE suddenly feels much more relevant. (Pyramid is excellent, by the way if you ever happen upon a copy of it, you must watch it.) He also did another child-focused documentary called Castle, which I wasn't as interested in: this girl favored Egyptians over European feudalism & crusades, thank you very much. I remember I used to force my poor, beleaguered parents to sit through Pyramid (1988) with me, over and over and over. David Macaulay is a British writer and illustrator who specializes in architecture and history.
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