Happy Tuesday everyone! Today let's take a walk through SEVENEVES, the newest epic by Sci-fi author extraordinaire Neal Stephenson. Published this year, SEVENEVES is the third book I've read by Stephenson, and this blagh is going to feature details from all three--ANATHAM, SNOW CRASH, and this his latest feat of speculative fiction. Spoilers ahead! I [...]
Good morning and welcome back to my life! Today we're going to talk a little about a book I finished this weekend, JOHN DIES AT THE END by David Wong (pseudonym of Jason Pargin). This book has one of the best opening scenes I've ever read. It's violent, funny, and perfectly introduces the voice of [...]
Hello again readers! Today I'd like to relate the events of this past Saturday--a stint in Ithaca, NY at the Cornell Dancesport Classic, an annual college-hosted Ballroom competition. Myself, my partner-in-crime, my partner-in-Standard, and four other SU students got up before dawn, shambled into cars, and drove down to Ithaca College. As unpleasantly early and [...]
Good morning and welcome back to my life! This weekend Steve and I had the privilege of performing at a ballroom dance outside of Rochester, NY. I find I don't have that much to say about the show--we performed reasonably well, I remembered to smile, people clapped and cheered. Glad to go, glad it happened. [...]
Goooooood morning readers! So today I’m doing something a bit different. Surprise surprise. Writer and hilarious blogger Chuck Wendig issues various flash fiction writing challenges to his readers, and this week it’s a Flash (non) Fiction challenge—write an actual event from your life as a story in 1000 words or less. This makes sense to [...]
Welcome to the third and final review of the Curiosity Quills September releases blog tour! Today we shall examine an addition to the 'dark, re-told fairy-tale' genre, the release by author and Lewis Caroll-enthusiast David Hammons. Onward! Let's start with what I liked--which is what I will always do unless a book is aggressively bad. [...]
Today we take a turn for the sci-fi with Tara Tyler's "Cooper Chronicles", a (for the moment) two-book series about a private detective 80 years in the future who gets mixed up in conspiracies and scandals. The first book, POP TRAVEL, involves issues with transporter-like teleportation tech, and the second, new-release SIMULATION, has to do [...]
Hello readers! Let's dive right in, shall we? So this week I had the privilege of reading "Hour of Mischief" by Amiee Hyndman as part of the Curiosity Quills Press review tour. Ms. Hyndman is an English and Creative Writing student in Iowa, and this is her first published book. I shall do my best [...]
This weekend was one of many events and thoughts, some dance related, some not—many of which I will share here. Today’s installment of Natural Opposite comes to my readers like the changing seasons: in four parts. Part I. To start out, on Saturday, my partner-in-crime and I went to another Symphoria concert, this time a [...]
As the hubbub around the wedding winds down, I find myself wanting to write an ordinary post. Last weekend the Sven and I went to an orchestra concert by the local symphony, and like all good performances, it made me think. The program consisted of Saint-Saëns "Bacchanale" from Samson et Dalila, Poulenc "Concerto for 2 Pianos in [...]
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