The Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko describes the often bloodless struggle between the Night Watch and the Day Watch. It's a sort of cold war in which each side is only permitted to attack members of the other side if they break the Treaty in some way, this rule being upheld by the Inquisition ...

I am currently in the middle of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Twice thus far, he mentioned a manuscript that he brought with him to Auschwitz, and lost there. When he first arrives in camp, and the prisoners' belongings are confiscated: No one could yet grasp the fact that every...

The Assassin's Creed games mostly have a present-day component, where the protagonist's descendent enters the Animus, reliving the protagonist's life. Since this is merely replaying memories, we don't actually affect the past in the game, but, in Assassin's Creed II: Revelations: However, from...

I was reading Mark Twain's Joan of Arc and Joan converses with the Dauphin of France. She made the "King shake off his indolent attitude and straighten up like a man, and at the same time look immeasurably astonished." And this is said of Théoden in the Two Towers: "He drew himself up...