Escape Artists
Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on September 30, 2017, 02:21:27 AM
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Banned Books Week – The Forbidden Books of Da Lin Monastery (http://www.castofwonders.org/2017/09/cast-of-wonders-272-banned-books-week-the-forbidden-books-of-da-lin-monastery/)
• by Andrew K Hoe
• Narrated by Andrew K Hoe
• Audio production by Jeremy Carter
• A Cast of Wonders original!
• Read along with the text of the story (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9qo4O5Z02JFJSyo9o4fxyd2S9Q2koYMOpsFwNfNH0o/edit?usp=sharing)
• Click here to listen to Episode 272 (http://archive.org/download/Wonders272/Wonders272.mp3)
Andrew K. Hoe (http://escape-artists.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_K_Hoe) teaches and practices Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and Tai Chi in Southern California, where he also writes speculative YA fiction. He has been a high school English teacher, an Assistant Language Teacher in Japan, and a college professor. His academic work in children’s literature can be found in The Looking Glass. Follow him online (http://andrewkhoe.wordpress.com/) or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/andrewk_hoe).
Hoong-Lung watched, horror-struck, as the book slid along the flagstone floor of the monastery library. The spine shivered, the cover’s fabric shredded itself, and something like spittle foamed along its edges. The title’s brush-stroked ideographs broke from their calligraphy, ink squirming like black worms.
The untamed writing made Hoong-Lung want to vomit.
Tags: acceptance, Andrew K. Hoe, Banned Books Week 2017, Cast of Wonders, Jeremy Carter, library, monks, orphan, refugee, rivalry, Texts Against Tyranny, war, Young Adult fiction