Anna Tschetter, Author at WWAC

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Dice Vice: Saving the World with Pandemic

August 13, 2015

Board games are having a bit of a moment right now. In geek circles, Wil Wheaton has his show “Tabletop” on Geek & Sundry where he plays tabletop games with friends; new and interesting games are coming out all of the time, and it’s even making the news. With all the focus on ...

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Literary Gingers: Top 5 Redheaded Heroines

August 13, 2015

Here at WWAC we like our redheads. We’ve shared our favourite ginger haired superheroes and redheaded anime characters in the past. But it’s about time we gave our literary redheads some love.

Comics

Finally! Hoopla Brings Digital Comics to Libraries

August 11, 2015

There was a bit of a flurry of excitement in the library world last month: DC announced that they were making some of their titles available to library patrons through the streaming service Hoopla. If you haven’t heard about Hoopla you should probably go call or email your public library right ...

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Jesuits in Space, or A Sci-Fi Sub-genre Examining Religion’s Failings

August 4, 2015

Having a faith or following a religion is important to a lot of people. To some people, faith can be an almost endless source of comfort and strength. Others see it only as a bastion for bigots, prejudice, weakness, and more. Wherever you fall on that spectrum, fiction is still a great place ...

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The YA Urban Fantasy the World Needs: Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

July 28, 2015

Sierra Santiago is an artist. Her current project? Beautifying the development that was abandoned by scurrilous developers and would-be gentrifiers in Brooklyn. Sierra thinks a big, badass dragon would send a good message: don’t try to take our neighborhood from us. When her ailing grandfather ...

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Poetry Doesn’t Have to be the Worst: Three Contemporary Poets to Get You Started

July 15, 2015

When I tell people that I read poetry—and even worse, if I tell them I write poetry—I sometimes get some strange looks. Or at least, a raised eyebrow that seems to say, “Well aren’t you so fancy and smart?” Poetry as a whole has a bad reputation for being boring, snobbish, and hard to ...

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Dogears: Korean Jane Eyre, Polish Fantasy, and Everyday Barf

July 8, 2015

Re Jane Patricia Park Pamela Dorman Books May 5, 2015 Despite the book’s problems—you know, the colonialism and portrayal of Bertha Mason—I have always loved Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. I loved how independent and even snarky she could be for a 19th century heroine. Jane’s return to brooding, ...

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Reading Diaries: What We’re Reading this Summer

July 1, 2015

Angel: I’ve been pretty focused on upcoming books recently, and a current favourite is The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, based off The Lizzie Bennet Diaries webseries character. I liked it much more than Lizzie’s book, which was released last year, because Lydia felt more real and like she ...

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You can’t go home to Yugoslavia again: Girl at War reviewed

June 24, 2015

Girl at War Sara Novic Random House May 12, 2015 “‘What kind of question is that?’ he asked after a while, his voice raw. ‘Of course we want to go back. Of course we’re going home.’” At the heart of Girl at War is the idea of home. Debut novelist, Sara Novic, tells the story of Ana Juric, a ...

Essays

The Lord of the Rings, The Magicians, and Finally Learning How Not to Nerd-shame

June 17, 2015

I’ve always had a lot of opinions about The Lord of the Rings and all of them were always correct. Between the ages of 10 to 15, The Lord of the Rings books were my books. I read them every summer—thanks to my less-than-great school system with no summer reading requirements—and thought they ...

Anna Tschetter

Dice Vice: Saving the World with Pandemic

Literary Gingers: Top 5 Redheaded Heroines

Finally! Hoopla Brings Digital Comics to Libraries

Jesuits in Space, or A Sci-Fi Sub-genre Examining Religion’s Failings

The YA Urban Fantasy the World Needs: Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

Poetry Doesn’t Have to be the Worst: Three Contemporary Poets to Get You Started

Dogears: Korean Jane Eyre, Polish Fantasy, and Everyday Barf

Reading Diaries: What We’re Reading this Summer

You can’t go home to Yugoslavia again: Girl at War reviewed

The Lord of the Rings, The Magicians, and Finally Learning How Not to Nerd-shame

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