Favorite Story Books from the Stacks

Today I want to tell you all about some other blogs that I found inspiring recently. The first blog is “The Witches of Oz” this one drew my attention because the Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies as a child and I love tales that put a spin on familiar stories. I think that doing a similar “spin off” approach might be a fun direction to take my own project in. As I looked through the bog the next thing that drew my attention was the beautiful layout. The dark green background added nice color without being overwhelming. The lightened picture used for the header of the introduction was also a really great touch and might be an interesting thing to incorporate into one of my blog posts.

The next blog that caught my attention was the “OTHER” blog. Having read quite a few fairy-tales, I thought this blog was likely about changelings or fairies and was excited to see how this was incorporated into a blog. The intro of this blog included information on how the ideas behind the blog and also references where parts of their story came from in the first chapter. I think I will include this in my blog because it seems more research oriented. I also really enjoyed that the blog text was broken up similar to the way it would be in a novel. That made the reading easy and flow well.

The last blog I want to tell you about is the “ChoosingParadise” blog. While looking through the blogs this one stood out because it wasn’t about your average fairytales. This blog is about artificial intelligence and robotics which I find interesting especially as we approach better and better automation in real life. I may consider writing about something out of the normal range of fairy-tales in my own blog. The photo at the start of this post also comes from this blog and works well in contrast with the mechanical subject matter.

Photo Credits: "Paradise Garden" by Aramissabekyan on Wikipedia Commons

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