Showing posts with label Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oz. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Emerald City of Oz, where Baum planned on ending the series

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Ho boy. This is a big one. The Emerald City of Oz is the book that turns so much of Oz on its head. The Nome King returns, more vindictive ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Road to Oz, a road movie before they existed

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Okay, moving on to the fifth Oz book. While it is far from the worst book in the Oz canon, the Road to Oz might have the most banal plot...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - dangerous underground adventures

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Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz is the fourth book in the Oz canon and, in case you didn't guess, brings the wizard back to Oz. Bringing th...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Ozma of Oz - my favorite Oz book

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Ozma of Oz is the third book in the Oz cannon. It also happens to my favorite book in the series. I've easily read it more often than I...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Two of the odder bits of Baum's Oz

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Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz and the Woggle-Bug book were two of the strangest things that I discovered when I started explo...
Monday, February 15, 2016

The Land of Oz, when we knew it was a series

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The Marvelous Land of Oz is a watershed book in a lot of ways. To the best of my knowledge, Baum hadn't planned on making a series when...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Let's take a look at the first book, the Wizard of Oz

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is honestly the last book by L. Frank Baum that I should have to tell anyone about. Seriously, if you have been l...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Spending part of last year reading a lot of Baum

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Last year, I decided to read all fourteen of L. Frank Baum's 'official' Oz books. When I was younger, I had read the first nine ...