Book Review: Forsaken: Book One, The Shadow Cove Saga, J.D. Barker Fiction Horror: Forsaken: Book One, The Shadow Cove Saga, J.D. Barker Indie published in 2014, J.D. Barker’s debut novel Forsaken exploded onto the literary stage. Nominated for the Bram Stoker award for best new novelist, Barker was invited by Stoker’s family to cowrite a prequel […]
Month: October 2018
Book Review: Orleans, Sherri L. Smith
Book Review: Orleans, Sherri L. Smith Science Fiction: Orleans, Sherri L. Smith Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were only the beginning. Sea levels rose, hurricanes came with increasing force and frequency, and by the mid-2020s New Orleans and most of the south had been abandoned. Then came the plague, Delta Fever, which forced the remainder of the United […]
Book Review: Heroine Worship, Sarah Kuhn
Book Review: Heroine Worship, Sarah Kuhn Fantasy: Heroine Worship, Sarah Kuhn Superheroines of color must represent. And Aveda Jupiter does. Having realized that she was more than a bit of a diva in Heroine Complex, she is determined to be new. Different. She is, after all, super. She can do this! She can be the superheroine that […]
Book Review: No One Is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts
Book Review: No One Is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts Fiction: No One Is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts Ava wants a child. Desperately. Achingly. Approaching her late 30s, married for many years to Henry, all she can think about is how much she wants to become a mother. Sylvia, Ava’s mother, […]
Book Review: Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
Book Review: Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith Poetry: Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith A few years ago I found a courage I did not know I had. I began questioning things I had always assumed were true. I began exploring my assumptions, opening my mind to new approaches and no longer accepting things at face […]
Book Review: Sun Under Wood, Robert Hass
Book Review: Sun Under Wood, Robert Hass Poetry: Sun Under Wood, Robert Hass “You think you’ve grown up in various ways and then the elevator door opens and you’re standing inside reaming out your nose” I do not know whether any other US Poet Laureate has ever written a poem about being caught in an elevator […]
Book Review: Praise, Robert Hass
Book Review: Praise, Robert Hass Poetry: Praise, Robert Hass If you’ll join me in the “wayback” machine, we can travel way back to 1979. Bell bottoms and wide collars. Disco was not yet dead, but was clearly dying. The UN declared it to be the International Year of the Child. Phnom Penh fell and the Pol Pot […]
Book Review: Unnatural Selection, Katrina van Grouw
Book Review: Unnatural Selection, Katrina van Grouw Nonfiction Science: Unnatural Selection, Katrina van Grouw Unnatural Selection is a beautiful book. Oversized, coffee-table style, Unnatural Selection’s first impression grabs you. Katrina van Grouw has illustrated the text with her own line drawings, and she is an impressive artist. Her degree is in art, she has experience as a curator […]
Book Review: Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer
Book Review: Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer Nonfiction Science: Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer Chris Stringer’s book Lone Survivors (outside the USA this book is titled The Origin of Our Species) takes a long look at the theories behind […]
Book Review: The Brightest Fell, Seanan McGuire
Book Review: The Brightest Fell, October Daye series #11, Seanan McGuire Urban Fantasy: The Brightest Fell: October Daye series #11, Seanan McGuire October Daye is part human and part fae. A “changeling,” she constantly lives with one foot in the mortal world and one foot in the fae kingdoms. After years of trying to balance between these worlds, she finally […]