Well another year has nearly come to a close! Here I recap everything I read in 2015 in the order in which I read them, complete with rating stars and one-sentence (ish) reviews for your edification. I don't generally like reducing opinions down to star-numbers, so if you want more comprehensive reviews, check out my [...]
Here is a fact: I am a massive Star Trek fan. I was first introduced to the series by my fellow-nerd mother in middle school, and an epic 3-year marathon later, I had seen EVERY episode. (Yes, and the movies. No, not the animated series.) This is all to say that when I saw THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY [...]
DON'T LOOK AT ME /ahem/ This, my latest read, is the most visually unique book I've read all year. ILLUMINAE by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff is the story of the destruction of a mining colony and the horrors that befall the survivors as they flee their attackers in spaceships. Add in a healthy dose of [...]
Every now and then a book comes along that holds up the middle finger to convention and expectations, proceeding to create its own world in its own damn way, thank you very much. WAKE OF VULTURES by Lila Bowen (pseudonym of Delilah Dawson), does exactly that. Take yer stodgy tropes and stuff'em in a sack. It's not [...]
Yeah. Right. So. This book was weird. Like the post-apocalyptic step-child of Douglas Adams' work weird. To adapt a phrase from another oft surrealist work I enjoy--there's a very thin line that separates entertaining absurdism from 'WTF am I reading', and that line is covered in radioactive cannibalistic pirates. And dancing zombies. Yep, the disco [...]
"I am writing this for you. My enemy. My friend. You know, already, you must know. You have lost"(1). What an opening, and oh boy, what a book. The premise of THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST by Claire North is basically that of the movie "Groundhog Day", but turned up to 11. Certain [...]
When I was 15, I would not have picked up Emma Mills debut novel FIRST & THEN. I didn't (and don't) care much for sports, and then I had little patience for "realistic fiction" about angsty teens and their lives. I was busy enough living my own. So no, I would not have read FIRST&THEN--and [...]
"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a [...]
Hello readers and welcome back to my life! Today we have another review pre-release review from Curiosity Quills Press, the YA fantasy ACNE, ASTHMA, AND OTHER SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE HALF DRAGON, by debut author Rena Rocford. With a title like that, how can I not read it? DRAGON is a fun book. It's been [...]
The first time I heard of Night Vale, it was early 2012 and through the posting and re-sharing magic of the internet, the great purple eye caught my attention. I listened to a couple episodes, but I didn't really get it, and it slipped from my mind. Many months later, long after the Great Tumblr Explosion of [...]
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