Book Review: Across the Green Grass Fields, Wayward Children Book 6, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: Across the Green Grass Fields, Wayward Children Book 6, Seanan McGuire Regan is a normal little girl. That is what she desperately wants to be. Normal is defined unyieldingly by her friend Lauren. Normal little girls don’t play with snakes — […]
Book Review: The Girl with No Face, The Daoishi Chronicles Book 2, M.H. Boroson Fantasy: The Girl with No Face, The Daoishi Chronicles Book 2, M.H. Boroson Xian Li-Lin saved San Francisco’s Chinatown, saved her father, and proved that her ability to see spirits was not a curse but a gift. As a result, […]
Book Review: The Rabbit Factor, Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston Mystery: The Rabbit Factor, Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston Henri Koskinen likes things to be predictable. Orderly. Logical. Mathematical. He is an actuary, responsible for calculating sundry probabilities that form the basis for insurance companies. It is difficult and exacting work, […]
Book Review: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi Science Fiction: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi 2010 Winner of the Nebula Award, the Campbell Memorial Award, Hugo Award, Compton Crook Award and the Locus Award for best first novel. One philosophy of teaching swimming is to throw the student into deep water and let them […]
Book Review: The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey Science Fiction/Mystery: The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey I hardly know where to start with this amazing work by Sarah Gailey. They have written a book that is traumatic and beautiful, transformative and mesmerizing and cruel and healing. I am truly in awe. Evelyn is an […]
Book Review: The Dance of the Snow Tractors, Siena and Illustrated by Shannon Wilvers Picture Book Preschool: The Dance of the Snow Tractors, Siena and Illustrated by Shannon Wilvers Siena, who lives in Canada, shares her story of how she spends a day after a large snowfall. The highlight of her day is […]
Book Review: Fool’s Gold, Gillian Godden Thriller: Fool’s Gold, Gillian Godden Blog Tour October 15, 2021 Julie and Ralph are living a storybook fantasy. She is his princess being swept away from her home in Liverpool to his castle in London. His is a rags-to-riches tale, growing up poor and half Jewish in […]
Book Review: Final Girls, Mira Grant Science Fiction/Horror: Final Girls, Mira Grant Mira Grant is the sci-fi/horror counterpart of fantasy writer Seanan McGuire. She has given us a pandemic that created (essentially) zombies, “mermaids” that are not lovely but do like to eat people, and now a virtual reality hellscape. Esther Hoffman […]
Book Review: Cold as Hell, An Áróra Investigation Book 1, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates Mystery: Cold as Hell, An Áróra Investigation Book 1, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates Blog Tour October 11, 2021 Áróra was born in Iceland, daughter of an Icelandic father and an English mother. Raised in both countries, she […]
