Now, the good Professor always follows up his “Good News, Everyone” with decidedly bad news. But for this week, that can wait. And I was going to spend the first part of this newspost looking at some of the more depressing stories about books from around the world, but end ...

Books in the News
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, April 24, 2025A Fair Playing Field
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2025
Picture credit: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire
Today (Thursday 6th February) is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, although due to the nature of time zones you will probably be reading this after the day if over for us.
Waitangi is a place in NZ, the name meaning ...
A Broken Heart
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2024
When we hear about a broken heart, usually our collective minds to go romantic disappointments and devastation. Unrequited love, betrayed love, or even love separated by death or any other type of force majeure.
And that's absolutely one type of heartbreak that is and will remain legit. It's ...
Hawk and Flo Adventures Accelerates to 900 Page Milestone; The KAMics Celebrates Its 20th Year Anniversary on The Duck; Roll Out the Red Carpet for the Drunk Duck Awards 2024!!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 7, 2024
Photo: “Operation Werewolf Part 3”. Hawk and Flo Adventures by HawkandFloAdventures. (October 2024)
Hawk and Flo Adventures Milestone
HawkandFloAdventures writes:
“I'm going to hit 900 pages soon on Hawk and Flo Adventures! am I alright to have a milestone announcement next week I'll definitely be at 900 by ...
Quackcast 700 - Mythcast part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 13, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
We chatted about Greek Myths last week and found the subject so interesting that we thought we'd do a part two! So even MORE Greek myth stuff for Quackcast 700.
There are just so many great ...
Xade is a Duck in Need!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2024
One of our own, Xade, is in dire straights financially. Xade needs our help to be able to overcome a crisis, so if you have any capacity to help out, just click this link to donate.
What is the crisis? I'll let Xade speak, copying her words from her ...
Color coding
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 18, 2024
Colour is amazingly powerful to humans, despite the fact we see so little of its spectrum. The impact of colour on our daily lives is tremendous but unfortunately not very well researched. What we do know from research is that it can affect one's mental, emotional and even physical ...
Defying Death
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 30, 2024
For a huge chuck of Christians around the world, today is Resurrection Day (or Good Saturday), which is easily one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, no matter when you observe it. For those that do, therefore, I hope you have the happiest one yet, and since ...
Social Issues in Fantasy (Part 1)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 3, 2024
During times of censorship, or times where exploring issues in the real world might be tricky, using fantasy or science fiction to do it is a real and viable solution. Dressing up the thing you want to explore into something cute and fuzzy might be just the way to go ...