by Tammy Thompson When Demons Walk By Patricia Briggs Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Ace; Reissue edition (June 1, 1998) ISBN-10: 0441005349 ISBN-13: 978-0441005345 Buy the Book On the surface When Demons Walk looks to be the standard romantic fantasy tale. Shamara, once the daughter of the Captain of the Guard and apprentice to the King’s [...]
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By Lisa Fary
Wonder Women of America made me want to don a costume and walk down the street.
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by Tammy Thompson Weddings from Hell (Mass Market Paperback) By Maggie Shayne, Jeaniene Frost,Terri Garey, Kathryn Smith Publisher: Harper (May 27, 2008) ISBN-10: 0061472689 ISBN-13: 978-0061472688 Buy the Book! June is a month almost everyone traditionally associates with weddings, filled with bride’s bouquets and happily ever after. Well not always: “Weddings From Hell,” which hit [...]
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Part family saga, part Southern Gothic, and part freakshow, Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis – a carnival family that will not make you want to run away and join the circus.
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By Lisa Fary
After finishing my Masters degree in education, I thought about going back for a doctorate, but decided against it, with one small caveat: I would only consider it if I had an idea for a doctoral thesis. This kept me from adding to my student loans for almost three years, the longest I’ve ever gone without being enrolled at some university.
Then came Dr. David Anderegg and this book.
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by Tammy Thompson From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book (Hardcover) by Charlaine Harris Publisher: Ace Hardcover (May 6, 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0441015894 Buy This Book Buy the First Book in the Series The latest installment in the Sookie Stackhouse mystery series, From Dead To Worse, picks up a few months after the last book, [...]
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By Heather Carpenter
Imagine a sea turtle…but really huge…actually, the term gargantuan would be appropriate here….only bigger than that. Now, imagine that it is swimming through outer space and riding on its back are four elephants of ginormous proportions (how any of them breathe isn’t important). Across the top of the backs of the four hugantic pachyderms is a flattish disk. This disk (or, I should say, Disc) is a world.
Take a moment to accept all of this, I’ll wait……….
OK, I’m done waiting. Just try to keep up.
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by Tammy Thompson The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Paperback) by Mario Acevedo Publisher: Eos (March 14, 2006) ISBN-13: 978-0060833268 Buy the Book Think Angel meets X-Files, and you’ll have a pretty close idea of this book. Felix Gomez went to Iraq and came back a vampire, consumed by guilt over accidental shooting of innocents; Felix [...]
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by Adam Hunault
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the Star Trek books panel at New York Comic Con. I was fascinated as the editor and a few authors described what was to come in Star Trek fiction. In middle school I read close to a hundred of these paperback novels. Maybe I should check these books out again, I thought during the panel, and snapped up a free preview of the upcoming novels. I opened it to the first page of Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru, by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels (or possibly Christopher L. Bennett, the preview booklet credits both in different places). I immediately remembered why I don’t read Star Trek novels.
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By Lisa Fary As a concrete sequential personality, I make task lists and check things off as they’re completed, I keep a stringent work schedule, and, I like to read books in order. It doesn’t matter if there are twenty-eight books in a series that looks interesting – I will start with book one. Related [...]
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Part of the English Teacher Curse is to be unable to be swept up into a new world and its stories without getting caught up in the author’s language and writing style. There are a lot of books I don’t finish because they’re not written well. But, I also teach creative writing and can recognize [...]
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With August soon approaching, it seemed appropriate to highlight one of the amazing authors scheduled to make an appearance at the much anticipated Dragon*Con. For those of us East Coasters (or folks who dont mind traveling), that would be from August 31 to September 2 in Atlanta, GA. What better way to spend Labor Day [...]
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Written by Sonia Lepe. Sonia’s article is safe for people, like me, who haven’t yet started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have a really hard time getting into books or movies or shows that have cliffhanger endings because I find them so torturous. I avoided the summer long release of The Green Mile [...]
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The blurb on the back cover of The Hoax by Adrienne Jones doesn’t sound interesting at all, didn’t give me much of an indication of what I was in for and wasn’t really motivating when I cracked open the book. Luckily, the story starts out with a bizarre murder, a guy throwing up behind a [...]
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Justina Robson’s Keeping it Real takes place in 2021, six years after a quantum bomb ripped open and altered the world as we know it, opening doors to five other parallel worlds. People and magical creatures (the usual: elves, fairies, demons, elementals) travel between worlds all the time. Lila Black is like the Bionic Woman, [...]
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I kinda wish I was still ten years old because, besides the obvious benefits of not being a poopy grown-up, I could huddle under the covers with a mini flashlight stolen from the kitchen so I could read after my bedtime (I did that for years, Dad. Sorry). If I were still ten, Tales of [...]
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I really like summertime because the television (we call him Stevie) has released me from his tentacular grasp and I can break away from the Tivo (we call him Steve-O) long enough to read an actual book that’s more than 28 pages long and doesn’t have pictures. Do you hear that, Stevie and Steve-O? You [...]
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At this point in the history of pampered Western civilization, most everyone has had their head shrunk by a professional, read some sort of self-help book, or had their mind-space invaded by the self-serving, lunatic ranting of the latest Self-Actualization Guru of the Month. Anthony Robbins. Doctor Phil. Rhonda Byrne. And now, Doctor Brain. Related [...]
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