Showing posts with label Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City Trailer #1



I keep forgetting to post these trailers for Ransom Riggs' sequel to the spectacular Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Hollow City is out January 14th and it's not soon enough as I feel as though I've been waiting for it forever! The first book is the story of Jacob, a young boy who has his world turned upside down after witnessing the death of his grandfather at the hands of what he believes to be a monster. This leads to an examination of his grandfather's things and a forlorn letter from a mysterious Miss Peregrine. Investigation of the letter leads Jacob to travel with his father to the tiny island of Cairnholm off the coast of Wales and it is there that things get really weird. The narrative is peppered with a fascinating assortment of freaky old time photos Mr. Riggs (who youtube, twitter and various other online enclaves are just loaded with awesome content) acquired from private collections and various out-of-the-way places and is an effortless and completely consuming story of peculiarity, Hollowghasts, time-distortion and coming of age. Soooo good.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places



Ransom Riggs' 1st novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is awesome. It is a narrative constructed around a handful of VERY odd old tyme pictures. I wrote about it after I read it here. Riggs is also a travel writer and has a WONDERFUL youtube channel that is slightly akin to one of my favorite websites, Forbidden Places, which is kind of a photographic foray into lost and forgotten urban places all over the world. This video, posted on the VlogBrothers youtube channel is an adventure with Riggs in a forgotten hospital. Fantastic.