With Halloween right around the corner, it’s time to pick a few stories to get you in the mood for a spooky holiday. If I had my druthers, Phil Elmore’s The Thing in the Office would be the short story collection choice of the season. Elmore’s writing is clear, concise, and careful, reminiscent of the […]
Archives for October 2015
Book Review | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Charlie Bucket #1)
2015-10-19 · by ·
I started reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the kids just a few nights ago. In only a couple of readings the setting moved from cabbage and cold to chocolate bars and edible buttercup plants, and we were floating along, delightfully, through rivers of chocolate and Oompa Loompa songs. Our guide was the indefatigable Willy Wonka, […]
Book Review | A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (Earthsea #1)
2015-10-18 · by ·
I can’t remember how many years it’s been since I read anything by Ursula K. Le Guin, nor do I recall what it was that I read. So when Le Guin appeared in an article recently, it was a good excuse to reacquaint myself with one of her classics, A Wizard of Earthsea. Sparrowhawk is […]
Book Review | Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy #2)
2015-10-13 · by ·
Jeff VanderMeer makes my head explode. Instead of returning to the scene of the crime from Annihilation, a Twilight Zone-like place called Area X, VanderMeer puts us with Control (his code name), the son of a family of spies who is being given a second chance to save his career in espionage by running The […]
Book Review | Crecheling by D.J. Butler (The Buza System #1)
2015-10-12 · by ·
With Crecheling, D.J. Butler defies YA genre stereotypes to create a dystopian future that is vibrant and dangerous, where characters act like real people, and where death and pain are real and unavoidable, even for his heroes. The result is a story that is gripping, characters that are sympathetic, and a plot that grows under […]
