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Ten Inspirational Quotes from Fantasy Novels

Books have the amazing ability to inspire readers to improve their personalities, to face their fears, to make difficult choices and achieve their goals. Fantasy writers, especially, have their characters’ actions and words reveal to readers how they can not only be taken to an entirely different world but also face any challenge that life throws at them and come out better people. Here are some quotes from famous fantasy novels that can definitely inspire readers to be the best that they can be. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our …

‘Room’ Director Lenny Abrahamson to Adapt Sarah Waters’ ‘The Little Stranger’

William Duggan

Book Culture

Director Lenny Abrahamson mostly known from his worldwide hit and Oscar-nominated film Room returns with another book being adapted on the big screen with The Little Stranger. Adapted from the 2009 horror book by Welsh author Sarah Waters, the story centers on Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid that has made a respectable living as a country doctor. During a long hot summer in post-WWII Britain, Faraday is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall where his mother used to work and which has been home to one family for over two hundred years, a family that is being haunted by something incredibly sinister. Faraday soon …