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You know how you see something and you think, Oh man! I gotta tell people about this, but then you forget or put it off? Then, it’s been so long that you think, Well, they probably know about it by now anyway, so why bother? And then, you’re like, No, wait. I have something to [...]
I try to ignore labels, but it’s still a little humiliating for me to reach for a work of fiction labeled “paranormal romance.” But, at the recommendation of a friend with seemingly good taste, I picked up the first book in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy,
Liz Long, indie author, magazine writer and witty nerd extraordinaire first came on my radar when she was giving free e-reader versions of her debut novel away on Twitter. The young adult paranormal fiction Gifted: A Donovan Circus Novel was entertaining to read, had a good [...]
There’s so much awesome to share in the world, and sometimes it’s just not really a fit or there’s not that much to say about it. So I’ll be concise and share three nifty things I am loving right now.
Gypsy and the Cat. Two former Australian DJs Xavier Bacash and Lionel [...]
I remember when I first started reading books beyond the Berenstain Bears level. The feeling of getting so absorbed in a good story you stay awake as long as possible and maybe even drool on the pages as you fight off slumber. The feeling of wanting to reach the end while simultaneously wanting the book [...]
Toni Chu is always having fun in the pages of CHEW
CHEW has officially reached its halfway point (cue the tears). The Eisner Award-winning comic book by John Layman and Rob Guillory is one of my [...]
Science and Science fiction are such gifts. During my pre-teen and adolescent years, Aurthur C. Clarke’s 2001 and 2010 ignited a fierce love-affair between me and the universe. I was such a worried kid that sometimes it was hard to sleep with my brain engaged in a constant dialogue about homework to get done, the [...]
Dead little girls with all their teeth removed in Wind Gap, Missouri; three-fifths of a family butchered and the oldest brother convicted of the crime in Kinnakee, Kansas; a missing wife and a cheating husband with no alibi in North Carthage, Missouri – such are the crimes and locations that pull
I miss being part of the churning, noisy energy of Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. I miss being a teacher, a colleague, an employee and a friend. Mostly, I miss these things because I miss telling and listening to stories. At lunch, in the halls, during the five minutes before and after class, [...]
Of all the detectives to take the lead as narrator of a Dublin’s Murder Squad novel from Tana French, Michael “Scorcher” Kennedy should have been the one we could count on the most. Not the most likable, surely that is The Likeness’s Cassie Maddox, nor the [...]
