This was my first, and last, attempt at a video review. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I was going to do audio reviews, podcast style, and abandoned that idea, too. Sometimes I’m too ambitious for my own good. As it is, this video is more awkward than you’d expect from someone who is a performer for a living, so forgive me. I filmed this in January, so I remember nothing of how I felt about this book. My goodreads notes tell […]
And scary ghosts stories from Christmases long, long ago!
A HUGE thank you to Nate Haas for my wonderful books! He not only picked great reads for me (the Atkinson in particular I’ve wanted my hands on for ages), but included a super cute magnet and Oscar Wilde quotation card. And Nate – the haiku you wrote was adorable, not offensive – it takes a lot more than that to make me uncomfortable! 🙂
Fun with guns and metal-based superpowers
As of me posting this, the book is currently on sale for $2.99 on Kindle – so if you think it sounds interesting, now might be a time to try it. In helping me establish some of the background for the plot of this book, here is the Goodreads summary: In the three hundred years since the events of the Mistborn trilogy, science and technology have marched on. Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and even the first steel-framed […]
Tesla Lives in an Age of Witches and Ghosts
After a series of natural and manmade disasters, the steam-punk city of New Pittsburgh is under the control of a shadow government, and supernatural beings inhabit the darkness. This setting provides the backdrop for most of the story, although the action starts in London. Jake Desmet, his cousin Veronique (Nicki) LeClerque, and his best pal Rick Brand are completing a retrieval mission that does not go as smoothly as they would have liked. Jake and Rick’s fathers run an import business that extends to helping […]
A small skirmish in the larger war of The Bone Clocks.
The Bone Clocks is one of my favorite books I read this year so I was very happy to learn David Mitchell was releasing a side story to it this October. Slade House takes place in the same universe as The Bone Clocks and returning readers will probably very quickly grasp what is going on before those that read it with no prior knowledge. There is a grimy passage off the beaten path in London called Slade Alley. Every 9 years a small iron door […]
Land Under Wave
Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series is one of my all time favorites. I love Tiffany Aching, and aspire to be as mature as she was at 9. Of course, she was written by a grown man, but still, we find our role models where we may. The Wee Free Men is Tiffany’s debut. She is 9, the second to last of a large family who farm and raise sheep on The Chalk, work’s in her family farm’s dairy (which she loves), and watches her baby […]